China Blue
Visual Artist
Venice, Italy
2024

China Blue is an internationally exhibiting and award winning artist. She is known for her discoveries of the sounds in Saturn’s rings for NASA and the voice of the Eiffel Tower. Over the past two plus decades she has researched NASA’s Vertical Gun’s acoustics whose projectiles shoot at Mach-15, the sonics of an asteroid impact on Mars and the songs produced by our brains. With this research she explores connectivity through her installations, environments, soundwalks and her Podcast “Listening with China Blue.“

As an internationally exhibiting artist in 2019 + 2024 she exhibited her work at the Venice Biennale. In 2013 China Blue was the US Representative at Tokyo Wondersite’s Experimental Art Fair and in 2008 at OPEN XI in the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2012 her exhibition at the Newport Art Museum “Firefly Projects” was nominated the “Best Museum Show Nationally by the International Association of Art Critics.

China Blue is an art pioneer who has received three NASA/RI Space Grants. One was for her research of the sound created by NASA’s Vertical Gun impact simulator. She is also the first person to record the Eiffel Tower in Paris to discover her voice and the first to reveal the sounds of Saturn’s rings for NASA. She was nominated for a two year Artist-in-Resident with the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute at the Rhode Island Hospital. She is a recipient of a Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, Fellowship and multiple Canada Council of the Arts grants.

She has been an invited speaker at Adobe, Creative Tech Week, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Berkelee School of Music, Reed College and Brown University and was an adjunct professor and Fellow at Brown University in the United States. She has been an Adviser to Rhode Island Congressman Langevin’s Committee for Art & Culture and Rhode Island State’s Art and Health Committee as well as the Founder and Executive Director of The Engine Institute.