Bio

Cindy Niu (b. 1994) is a New York–based painter whose work explores nostalgia, longing, and transformation. Raised in a Chinese-American immigrant household, she turned to drawing and painting as a way of cultivating her inner world and making sense of a life suspended between two cultures.

Before committing fully to her artistic practice, Cindy spent nearly a decade as a commercial creative, helping organizations define and articulate their visual identities. In 2024, she left the agency world to pursue painting full-time — a shift that marked her transition from representational imagery to more intuitive, gestural abstraction.

Today, her work blends dreamlike palettes and layered mark-making to externalize imagined spaces where emotion and memory collide. While her practice has evolved, she remains guided by a profound preoccupation with life’s fleeting beauty and a sense of longing for moments just beyond reach.