Merry Sun

Merry Sun is a sound artist and sculptor based in Kansas City, Missouri. She was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, in 1996 and immigrated to the states at the age of three. In her practice, Sun constructs compositional infrastructures that utilize live-processed sound to facilitate audience movement and migration. Her installations combine Eastern and Western standards to reconcile her feelings of displacement that accompany the immigrant identity. Wielding the porosity of sound, Sun dissolves the boundaries between space and place within her sculptural systems. In 2019, Sun received her BFA in Visual Art and Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri). In 2023, she received her MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University (New York, New York). Sun is a 2025 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow.