Chen Gao is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Detroit and Chicago Metropolitan Area, USA. She received her MFA degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gao is currently teach-ing graphic design at the School of Art + Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work has taken many shapes, including free drawing, film photography, poetic writing, in-stallation, and performance. She explores the fantasy of ideal freedom that extracts from the re-al world and asserts the power of unconsciousness and dreams. This is all about her emotional life of being. She is not creating a form but building an atmosphere to convey a sense of void. Gao’s work has been celebrated in several exhibitions and (group) projects nationally and inter-nationally, including the Library Mural Project at Toledo Museum of Art Reference Library and An Inspired Age at Toledo Museum of Art. She was selected to exhibit work in the Holy Art Gal-lery in London and the Jackson Junge Gallery in Chicago. Gao is interested in continuing her professional studio practice in association with art education.