Vanilla Chi

Multi-disciplinary Artist/Designer/Independent Publisher
b. 1997, Currently living in New Haven, CT.

Vanilla Chi's work focuses on the cultural symbols and motifs of Eastern Asian cultures and anthropology studies. There is a nebulous and fatalistic connection between primitive religions, folklore, totemism, and semiology, which provide her with a way of seeing and interacting with the world. What has led us to the present, and what will guide us into the future? Chasing these queries, Vanilla’s practices dive into her heritage memories, cultural context and personal histories.

“I am a haunted living ghost wandering around the past, telling the stories of the forgotten, the avoided, and the ignored.”

>Graphic Designer<
MFA Graphic Design, 2027
Yale University, School of Art

>Illustrator<
Freelance 2020-2025, Brooklyn, NY

>Self-Publishers, Editor, Writer<
Pearl Slug Studio
RAGING magazine

Email☞: vanillahchi@gmail.com
Instagram☞: @vanilla_hchi

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Vanilla Chi, 𖦹 Currently→ 𓁺MFAGraphic Design (2027), Yale School of Art, New Haven, US; →♰ Researching Anthropology, Religon, Ritual, Semiology, and Transcendental Beyond etc,…; → 𓃈Self-Publishing Pearl Slug Studio ^{(2019-present),} New York, Shanghai; → Editor Raging Magazine^{(2019-present)}; → ♪ Broadcasting Illustration Roundtable ^(2020-2024); → 𓆙Practice Ceramic @serpentskirt_97; Writing; Textile; → 𖣘 Illustrator The New York Times/The New Yorker/ Bloomberg/WIRED/Farfetch/VICE It’s Nice That/Olympics/Coca-Cola/Aritzia/WeTransfer/MOLD magazine…(It’s my past) →◌BFAIllustration^(2017-2021), School of Visual Arts, New York.

Pearl Slug Studio is an independent publishing house. Rooted in the Simplified Chinese and East Asian context, currently based in New York, Melbourne and Shanghai.

Founded in 2020 by Guan Shaoshuang, Vanilla Chi, Mao Zhe and You Liang, Focusing on the visual arts and simplified Chinese writing, reflects on today's art historical, sociological, and aesthetic concepts.

＊https://pearlslugstudio.com/
＠ pearlslugstudio

♯Art Direction/Branding/Web Design/Editorial/Graphic Design

Projects→ 𓆙 Snakelike, Through These Grasses ❷ Books ❸ Posters ❹ Writings ❺ Pearl Slug Studio ❻ Raging Magazine ❼ Ceramics ❽ Illustrations