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Management
Cyrus Saidi (CTM) info@cyrustalent.com
Music Video Representation:
Cheyenne Shannon cheyenne@larkcreative.tv
Curry Sicong Tian is a US-China based multidisciplinary visual artist, whose talent ranges across Director, concept/digital artist, 3d mographer, and fashion photographer, not in a segregated way but artfully blending the vastly different mediums into a seamless harmony of leading edge expression.
In 2020, Curry won a Student Academy Award Best Experimental for her short film SIMULACRA. and in such ashort span of time , she brought her distinguished visual storytelling into the industry, directing masterfulcommercial works for clients such as Mercedes Benz, Apple BEATS, Canon, Chanel and L'oreal and archiving bigcommercial success globally. The 88rising's “Head in the Clouds Forever'' Coachella Visual Show she directedmarks the first label-curated set ever to hit the Coachella Festival’s main stage in 2022; The Mercedes BenzCommercial launched on CCTV series in China during the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games in 2021.
As a visual artist and film director, she has exhibited in numerous BAFTA Qualifying film festivals and art galleriessuch as Rhode Island International Film Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, Norwich Film Festival, PÖFF Shorts,Montana Film Festival, MIZAJI Gallery, and etc. Her works have been exhibited as part of the Getty MuseumUnshuttered project, shown in the Immersive Projection Exhibit on June 20, 2018, during the Getty UnshutteredLive 2019. Her narrative short film Esia, Hlin, and Darling Blue was awarded the Best ShortHorizon-Award in CineCina Film Festival in 2020.
She has been invited to sit on the jury panel for the most prestigious awards (e.g. Motion Design Award, IndigoDesign Award, MAXON 3D) in the field of visual art. She is also the first Asian female to lead the voice atMotionPlusDesign Conference (Both Los Angeles and Tokyo) in 2018 and 2019, which has more than 2000in-person attendees and live streams globally. Curry has also been lecturing at SVA, Parsons Institute, MAXON andThe Hongkong University of Science and Technology. She also started teaching as a visiting professor at CentralAcademy of Fine Arts in 2022.
Born and raised in China, Curry’s mission is to bridge the gap between eastern and western cultures through video art and film all led by the art of story. She is currently working as a research scholar at Harvard FAS CAMlab, focusing on digital media cognitive study, humanistic research, and creative sensorial media practice.
Management
Cyrus Saidi (CTM) info@cyrustalent.com
Music Video Representation:
LARK Creative-Vanessa Ostovich vanessa@larkcreative.tv
Award&Honor
MotionPlusDesign-Speaker 2022 Los Angeles
Student Academy Awards 2020- Best Experimental
HollyShorts Film Festival 2022 - BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
New Wave Short Film Festival 2020- BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Los Angeles Animation Festival 2020 -BEST COMBINATION ANIMATION AND LIVE ACTION
CineCina Film Festival 2020- Project Horizon-Award Winner
RAGFF Venezia 2021-RAGFF Venezia Short Films, Music Visuals, Experimentals, Short Documentary
Norwich Film Festival 2020
Video Art and Experimental Film Festival 2020
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2020
HollyShorts Film Festival 2020
Liverpool Film Festival 2020
Montana Film Festival 2020
MIZAJI Gallery 2022
MotionPlusDesign-Speaker 2019 TOKYO
PÖFF Shorts (Black Nights Film Festival)
ADAF ONLINE 2020 | 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival | VIDEO ART
NohidingProject - Resident Artist https://nohproject.com/Curry-Tian
Fastnet Film Festival - Selected
Catalyst Film Festival - Selected
FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) - Selected
Los Angeles CineFest - Semi-Finalist
The Larry Auerbach Foundation for Finishing Funds(2020)
ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Educators Forum 2019 Scholarship
International Animation Art Exhibition (IAE) -Yinyang (2019)
The MPI Media Exhibition-Samsara(2019)
Chinese Scholarship Council scholar
WorldStar Student Competition Award
Shenzhen Graphic Design Association
- FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTING
Coachella x 88 rising Heads in the Cloud 2022
MISS GRIT - Follow the cyburg 2022
It is not spring - YA YI -fashion video 2022
CHANEL X NOWNESS - THE MYTH OF FIVE 2021
Mercedes-Benz C-Class L-PV -Commercial 2021
Mercedes-Benz C-Class L- Commercial 2021
Beats 494_PANTHEPACK- Commercial 2021
Canon EOS R5 8K X CURRY SICONG TIAN -Commercial 2021
CC is Dreaming X Solana -NFT 2022
Stalker-FEIFEI WANG MV 2021
Mukbang Roller-Sonia Calico 2020
SIMULACRA -Experimental 2020
CC is dreaming -MV 2020
TOD’S X CURRY SICONG TIAN - 2020
Samsara -Experimental2020
Eisa, Hlin, and my darling Blue -Narrative Short 2019
SUPREME POLE - 3D Short film 2019
Vipassana -Experimental 2018
The shadow -SUIYI DA Branding -2018
INVADER - Branding-2018
ART DIRECTING
Lord Jones Sunday Bath Sessions with Flying Lotus-2021
X8_"animus x anima”-2021
Automatiste-fashion Experimental 2021
DEFTONES-CHANGE 2021
ELEME-LANTOS-Branding -2017
THE BOY-A Liangbo Documentary
Work&Experience
Harvard CAMLab - Research Scholar
09/2021-
Elastic.tv-Motion Designer
04/2019 - 09/2019
Logan.tv-Motion Designer
08/2019 - Present
Framestore-Freelance Motion Designer
06/2020
Imaginary Forces-Freelance Motion Designer
04/2019
20 Century Fox Studio Innovation Lab-3d Generalist Intern
07/2018-09/2018
Shapes and Forms LA-Motion graphic designer
09/2018-01/2019
Getty Unshuttered- Visual Project for GETTY MUSEUM-Motion graphic Designer, 3d Artist
03/2018
Act with Courage (TV Commercial for BWMx1) - Motion graphic-Designer and Assistant Director
07/2016
Modernsky Entertainment Company- Cinematographer, MV director,Motion graphic designer
03/2017 - 07/2017
Outlook Magazine- Photographer, Graphic Designer and Social Media Editor
01/2016 - 09/2016
Beijing Iliangcang Culture Communication Co., Ltd.- Art Director, Assistant Director and Designer
01/2016 – 08/2016
GUI_STUDIO- Founder and Art Director
2014 - present
Think3 Group- Graphic Designer
01/2015 - 04/2015
Press
MotionPlusDesign-Best Motion Artist Conference
Life & Work with Curry Sicong Tian - Voyage LA Magazine
LI TANG- Which World Is Truly Real, Curry Tian
Motion Plus Design -Tokyo
Film School Standouts: The 2020 Student Academy Award
Dropbox x Motion Plus Design
Inside the futuristic alternate realms of Curry Tian
MAXON X CURRY SICONG TIAN CINEMA 4 D TALK
Social Decompression-SIMULACRA
“SIMULACRA,” 2020 Student Academy Award Winner, Alternative/Experimental Category
Ecstatic Static-SIMULACRA
Education
University of Southern Califonia
MFA. Animation & Digital Art 08/2017-
Tsinghua University
B.A. in Visual Art and Communication
Dual Degree in Journalism and Communication
09/2013-06/2017
Exchange Program in City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong 2015-2016
Area of Concentration: Creative Media