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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.








Tunnel Vision (Short Film, 2024)FilmmakerFinished
idontcarewhatcomesnext (album cover, 2024)IllustratorFinished
poison (music video, 2024)
DirectorFinished

Hyacinth (Animation, 2024)IllustratorIn progress
CYSO Spring 2024 (Poster Illustration, 2024)
IllustratorFinished

New_ Public PSI (Social Media Video, 2024)AnimatorFinished

Arm & A Leg (Short Film, 2024)DPFinished
Humdrum Ecstasy (Short Film, 2024)
DirectorFinished

DREAMLOGIC (Short Film, 2023)DPFinished

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

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