Leting Cai – Artist Biography
Leting Cai is a multi-media artist whose practice explores the intersection of material, identity, and cultural narrative. Rooted in both Eastern and Western traditions, her work spans from intimate textile pieces to large-scale metal sculptures, bridging craft, material construction, and conceptual inquiry. Trained in painting, welding, woodwork, crocheting, and felting, she integrates these techniques with traditional Chinese forms such as Guohua (ink painting) and Fenshui (blue-and-white porcelain making), building a multilingual visual vocabulary that resists categorical boundaries.
As a Chinese female artist, Cai engages deeply with themes of gender, labour, and value. Her recent works reexamine the historical division between domestic craft and institutionalized art, questioning the gendered hierarchies that have long dismissed feminine modes of making. By tracing parallels between academic visual languages and household creative labor, she investigates how female creative practices have been marginalized and overlooked in both art history and contemporary institutions.
Cai views art not only as a personal and cultural medium, but also as a site for collective conversations. Her installations aim to carve out space—materially and conceptually—for intersectional discourse, inviting audiences to reflect on the entanglements of tradition, identity, and resistance. Through tactile materials and grounded processes, Cai’s work challenges inherited assumptions and invites new ways of perceiving material, gender, and the cultural systems that frame the act of making.
蔡乐婷 – 艺术家简介
蔡乐婷是一位多媒体艺术家，其创作实践融合材料探索、身份意识与文化叙事。她的作品跨越精致纺织与大尺度金属雕塑，在手工技艺、结构构建与观念艺术之间架起桥梁。她熟练掌握绘画、焊接、木工、钩织与毡艺等技法，并将这些技法与中国传统艺术形式——如国画与青花瓷绘制（粉水工艺）——相结合，构建出一种跨文化、多语言的视觉表达系统，打破既有的媒介分类边界。
作为一位华人女性艺术家，蔡乐婷深度介入性别、劳动与价值认定等主题。她的近期创作持续反思学院派艺术与家庭性手工艺之间的历史性分野，并追问隐藏其中的性别等级结构。通过对传统视觉语言与日常家庭创作之间的关系进行梳理，她揭示了女性艺术实践在艺术史与当代机构中长期所遭遇的边缘化处境。
在她看来，艺术不仅是个人与文化的媒介，更是公共讨论的发生场。她的装置作品试图在物质与观念之间，为交叉性议题开辟出真实可感的空间，邀请观众共同思考创作行为、沿袭的艺术观念， 以及多元文化之间的连接与张力。在手工材料与技艺实践的交织推动下， 她期待打破成见，激发共感，并为文化想象力提供新时代新鲜的养分。
Leting Cai – CV
- Initiator of the first UVic Visual Arts BIPOC student art shows with love,
- Executive co-chair of UVic Visual Arts 2022 Grad exhibition Subject to Change
- Member of the Curation committee in UVic Visual Arts 2022 Grad exhibition Subject to Change
- Member of the Installation committee in UVic Visual Arts 2022 Grad exhibition Subject to Change
- Increasing Equity in Decision Processes for ARPT Committees certificate
- Interviewee of UVic decolonization film Sincerely, Artists of Colour
- Executive representative interviewee of 2022 UVic Visual Arts grad exhibition with Marlet The University of Victoria’s Independent Newspaper
- Marketing Executive in Visual Arts Students’ Association 2021-2022
- Undergraduate student representative of Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression Working Group
- University of Victoria Audain Professorship Hiring committee 2022
- Undergraduate student representative for UVic Visual Arts Academic Program Review 2022