Baker Artist Portfolios

Danqi Cai was born in Nanchang, China in 1996 and raised in Shenzhen, China. She graduated BFA summa cum laude from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2019, where she double majored in Printmaking & Humanistic Studies and concentrated in Graphic Design and Book Arts.

Danqi has shown widely in regional, national and international juried exhibitions. In 2018, she participated in the Salt City Dozen portfolio exchange, won first and third places in the lithography category of New Impressions Printmaking Competition, received Best in Show from Four Rivers Print Biennial, and gave an artist talk at International Print Center New York (IPCNY)'s Multilayered: New Prints 2018/Summer. In 2019, she was awarded a fully-funded residency at Chautauqua School of Art, received a full scholarship to attend Penland School of Crafts, and received the Muskat Studios Prize from The Boston Printmakers 2019 North American Print Biennial. She is currently the 2019–2020 Printmaking Resident at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts