Chao-Ying Rao (also known as Betty) is an East Asian multi-disciplinary artist. A 2020 Glasgow School of Art graduate with a BA(Hons) in Painting and Printmaking, Betty also holds an MA(Hons) in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Betty’s research interests circulate around fringe and contentious topics as she playfully analyses our habitual discomforts. Fascinated by their undertones, she finds them to speak volumes about our shared anxieties and social values. Partly influenced by her experience in the sex industry where she spent a good decade of her life, her practice combines her lived experiences alongside questions of censorship, objectification, fetishisation, and bodily autonomy.

www.chaoyingrao.com
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