B.Arch from The Cooper Union, M.Arch from Yale University
Chong Gu (they/he/she) works with people, building materials, land, and texts. Their transdisciplinary process, hinged on hand model-making, frames diasporic domesticity and internalized trauma. Tracing social, spatial and material constructs of our urbanity, Chong’s work wrestles between axioms and senses, molding rooms for incremental resistance shared amongst heterogeneous communities.
Chong serves as an Instructor at Syracuse University. Previously, They have held design positions at both local and international practices including Yale Urban Design Workshop, SHoP Architects, Neri&Hu, and Bone/Levine Architects. Chong orchestrates Rehearsing with Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer, a collaborative relationship dedicated to framing otherness and narrating indigeneity. They are also a core organizer with Red Canary Song. Together with the collective, Chong has brought together communities inside massage parlors, on sidewalks, and in parks across New York City and beyond. Their work has activated institutional spaces including Storefront for Art and Architecture, Abrons Arts Center, Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU.
Chong’s work has been supported by various institutions and organizations. In 2024, they are a MacDowell fellow, and a Bandung resident co-organized by Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MOCADA). Occasionally a writer, Chong has published texts on MIT Thresholds, Yale Paprika! amongst others. They have been invited to speak at Asian American Culture Center at Yale, Princeton NOMAS, Simmons Center at Brown University, and Bard College. Their work has been featured on frieze, Urban Omnibus, CURBED, Hyperallergic, BuzzFeed, Retrospecta, etc. Chong received an M.Arch from Yale University and a B.Arch from The Cooper Union.
