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Haoshu Sascha Deng is based in Chicago, IL. She also considers Boston, MA, and Shanghai, China to be her home. Her creative work engages themes of memory/homesickness, solitude/companionship, and she hopes to reveal hidden inner worlds through a visual/sonic landscape. She is also interested in portraying stories about community building, immigration, and other artists’ practices in her documentary work.  Outside of creating, she is passionate about education and youth development. She is a 2024 Marwen Emerging Teaching Artist, 2023 NU Public Interest Program Fellow, and has worked at My CHI. My Future., a mayoral initiative in the City of Chicago - Mayor’s Office, and 826CHI, a non-profit that provides tuition free creative writing programing and publishing.






 Date
Project TitleStatus
2023
Tunnel VisionFilmmakerFinished
2024idontcarewhatcomesnext (album cover)IllustratorFinished
2024poison (music video)
DirectorFinished
2024Hyacinth (Animation)IllustratorIn progress
2024Bowling Alone (Header Illustration)
IllustratorFinished
2024 Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Spring 2024 (Poster Illustration)
IllustratorFinished
2024 New_ Public Public Spaces Incubator (Social Media Video)AnimatorFinished
2024
Arm & A Leg (Short Film)DPFinished


2023
Humdrum Ecstasy (Short Film)
DirectorFinished


2023
DREAMLOGIC (Short Film)DPFinished



sunshy - poison (music video)Music video for sunshy’s single “poison”; retrofuturism, kinetic typography.

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