Mark Bo Chu (born May 12, 1989) is an Australian multidisciplinary artist and writer. His public

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s are shown in Atlantic City and Melbourne, and he has held painting exhibitions in Melbourne, Shanghai and New York, often focusing on the human figure. Chu's 2013 debut solo show exhibited specimens of his own dandruff and in 2019 he undertook the Q Bank Gallery Residency in Queenstown, Tasmania. In contributions to scientific research, Chu has co-authored papers in Elsevier's

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, the

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Conference, the

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's Creativity and Cognition Conference, and the

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. In 2019 he graduated from the

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's Complex Systems Summer School where he co-founded the aesthetics research collective Comp-syn who were 2021

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semifinalists. Chu is a past restaurant reviewer for ''The Age Good Food Guide''. At thirteen years old he recorded as a piano soloist with the

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and was a 2005 keyboard finalist in the

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. He is a fiction graduate of

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's MFA and past winner of the engineering school's interdisciplinary design challenge. Chu's 2021 concept sculpture "The Giving Ox" was intentionally fixed at a price of zero dollars, with the owner instructed to live as generously as possible until passing on the work for the fixed price. Chu was a recipient of the MH Carnegie NFT Fellowship, through which he exhibited crime theory collectibles Crypto Crimz at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. Mark Chu is the son of Chinese-Australia composer Chu Wanghua, and grandson of Chinese scholar and dissident

Chu Anping Chu Anping (, 1909–1966?) was a Chinese scholar, liberal journalist and editor of ''Guancha'' (观察, The Observer) in the Civil War era of the late 1940s. He is widely considered to be one of the most famous liberals in China. He was Editor ...

. He lives in Melbourne with his partner Nell Pierce.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chu, Mark 1989 births Living people 21st-century Australian writers 21st-century Australian painters 21st-century male artists Australian pianists Columbia University alumni Australian people of Chinese descent Artists from Melbourne Australian male painters