Ray Chi (born 1974 in

Okemos Okemos ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population of the CDP was 21,369 at the 2010 census. Okemos is located mostly within Meridian Charter Township, with a small portion extending sout ...

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; lives in

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) is an American architect, cellist, film and video editor, and furniture designer. He collaborated with Sarah Price and Chris Smith on the editing of the award-winning documentary ''

American Movie ''American Movie'' is a 1999 American documentary film directed by Chris Smith, produced by Smith and Sarah Price, and edited by Jun Diaz and Barry Poltermann. The film chronicles the making of ''Coven'', an independent short horror film dire ...

''. That project would lead to the collaborative creation of ZeroTV.com, a precursor to

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and MySpace. Other film work includes Sarah Price's '' Caesar's Park'', '' The Ice Cream Social'', ''Studying the Lie'', and a documentary based on Chicago's Hubbard Street Dance Company. Before earning a master's degree in architecture from the

Southern California Institute of Architecture Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde and more adventurous than t ...

he studied at Harvard and the

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. Chi has had exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and has a furniture line called FURNICHI, which is regarded as functional conceptual sculpture. In 2005, he was named Artist of the Year by the city of Milwaukee. He currently teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As of November 2007, he had his first child, Xander.

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Living people 1974 births People from Okemos, Michigan Harvard University alumni University of Michigan alumni American architects American cellists {{US-architect-stub