Frank Fu

Frank Fu is a performance artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, Auckland and Inner Mongolia. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of performance art, film, and social practice. He is the head of school at Frank Fu Institute.
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At Christchurch Biennial 2006, Fu did a performance called "Don't Misbehave: Welcome to the Bullshit and Boring Art World" and the "Reading Series" at Sydney's Biennale which launched his career internationally.
In 2007, Fu performed "In Memory of Contemporary Art" at the Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland. He then performed two intervention actions "I Love Venice Biennale and Venice Biennale Loves Me" at Venice Biennale and "Contemporary Art Context" at Germany's dOCUMENTA. Later that year, he was invited to participate in Asian Contemporary Art Fair (ACAF) 2007, the first art fair dedicated to Asian contemporary art in New York City, to perform "Just Roll Up! The Confidence Man".
In 2008, Fu was at the Asian Contemporary Art Week, performing "The Asian Bubble" at the Rubin Museum of Art and another intervention actions at Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou for his performance "Frank Fu Pompidou 1968 - 2008.
At the 66th Locarno International Film Festival 2013, Fu was invited to participate in its Filmmakers Summer Academy with his film "You Know Nothing About Me", in which only 25 participants around the world are selected to participate. During the Festival, Fu did a personal performance on "Selfies" with all the academy's guests, including filmmakers like Werner Herzog and Peter Zeitlinger.

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