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Mengwen Cao

  • Fellow, Magnum Foundation
New York
As seen in: The New York Times, The Guardian, Wiley Online Library, Mashable, NPR, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Buffalo News, Grub Street, ChinaFile and
Covers:  Immigration, LGBTQ, gender, race
liminal thoughts from an image maker🌱
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Mengwen Cao’s Biography

Mengwen Cao (b. 1990, Hangzhou, China) is a photographer, videographer and multimedia producer based in New York. Her recent work investigates the in-between space of race, gender, and cultural identity. Her projects have been featured on The New York Times, NPR, Mashable, BUST, Foreign Policy, The Guardian etc. She has participated in international exhibitions like Photoville, Jimei Arles, Lianzhou Foto Festival.
She was a recent fellow at the Magnum Foundation. She graduated from New Media Narratives and Documentary Practice program at the International Center of Photography in 2017. She received her BA in English from Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, and her MA in Instructional Technology from UT Austin.

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