Lane Shi | Otay:onii
Troubadour / Sound
Installation Performer

Lane Shi Otay:onii is a Chinese born interactive multi-media performer and sound artist residing in New York and Shanghai. After graduating Berklee College of Music in 2016 receiving "Laurie Anderson Women in Technology Award", she was immediately honored for "Best Vocalist" Bronze Prize from Global Music Award 2017, "Best Independent Artist" from American Track Awards 2017 and "Best Sound" from Audiovisual Arts Industrial Incubator Awards. She lined up herself with 8 U.S tours being the lead vocalist and performer for Boston experimental bands Dent and Elizabeth Colour Wheel, after tours, she coalesces skills and experience with sound, voice and performing into multi-media interactive installation with a philosophical pursuit to the essence lost in historical saga while finding their juxtapositions in modernity. Her solo multi-media exhibition Naked Winger was presented at Stovefactory Gallery, Charleston, MA; sound works for CrowdArt interactive exhibition was presented for months at 798 Art Zone in Beijing, China. In 2018 she started her solo project under the artist name Otay:onii, followed by full - length album “NAG”, single “7 Yearster”, and live studio album “Molelipop”. Her self-direct music video “Shaoxing Nomad” was featured in numerous film festivals such as Rome Prisma Film Awards, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festivals, Independent Talent International Film Festivals and many more.  Electronic, ambient, sound collage or even noise, with a heart to be mindless on the boundaries of all, Otay:onii breaks down structures that chains her neck and feet, aiming to be free on the ride of acute instincts and establishing a bodily connection through the synchronization of the heart and mind. She believes it is through this particular synchronization that people are brought to the bed of honesty, in which a moment of history will be worth looking back and upon, and the light will slip out from this crack within any world of creation reverberating the loudest echos.

2022 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival - Official Selection - Un deciphered

2022  Fear Faire Film Festival - Official Selection - Un deciphered

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2020   International Sound and Film Music Festival - Official Selection - Shaoxing Nomad 

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2019 Paris Lift-Off - Official Selection - Shaoxing Nomad

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2018 Rome Prisma Film Award - Semi-finalist - Shaoxing Nomad

2018 Independent Talent International Film Festival - Finalist - Shaoxing Nomad

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2018 Istanbul Internationla Experimental Film Festival - Official Selection - Shaoxing Nomad

2018 AMII Work Fest - Award Winner of Best Sound - Therapy Room

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2018 American Track Music Award 2018 - Award Winner of Best Independent Artist - Dent - So Red

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2018 Global Music Award 2018 - Award Winner Bronze Prize of Best Female Vocal - Dent - Sorrowful Seed

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2018  Logcinema Music Film Festival 2018 - Award Winner of Best Original Song - Sorrowful Seed

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Global Music Award 2018 - Award Winner of Best Lyric/Songwriting - So Red

2017   ReAnima Animated International Film Festival 2017 - Best Music Video - Sorrowful Seed

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2017   Aug. LINOLEUM Festival - Official Selection - Therapy Room

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2017   Jan. Seoul International Cartoon & Animation - Official Competition - Sorrowful Seed

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2017   Jan. Berlin World International Film Festival/ ACT HRFF - Official Selection - Dystopia Rooms

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2016   Song Of The Year- Semi-Finalist- Dent

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2016   Dec. VOID - International Animation Film Festival, Copenhagen - Official Selection - Therapy Rooms

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2016   Dec. Berlin World International Film Festival - Official Selection - Dystopia Rooms

2016   Nov. Barcelona Planet Film Festival  - Official Selection - Therapy Room + Dystopia Rooms

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2016   Sep. Hollywood International Moving Picture Film Festival - Award Winner- Dystopia Rooms

2016   Feb. Holland Animation Film Festival(HAFF) - HAFFTube - Official Selection - First Breath

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2016   March. Laurie Anderson Award Women in Music Technology Award- Berklee College of Music Electronic

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Production& Design Achievement Awards Spring 2016

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2015   March. Laurie Anderson Award Women in Music Technology Award- Berklee College of Music Electronic

Production& Design Achievement Awards Spring 2015

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2005   Oct. Certificate Grade 8 (top 9) Specialty Pianist - Arts Grade Examination of China

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2002   May. Hualian—Coca Cola Piano Contest First Prize-State Host China

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* Un deciphered, Shaoxing Nomad film and sound by Lane Shi Otayonii.

  First Breath, Dystopis Rooms, Therapy Room film by Qieer Wang, sound by Lane Shi Otayonii.

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2015 May. Naked Winger multi-media/interactive solo exhibition, Stovefactory Gallery, Charlestown, Massachusetts

2017 Oct. Sound Artist for OFF-OF,  Biggercode Gallery, Soho, NY

2017  May. Voice on Whether There Was a Bell or Whether I knocked exhibition by Stephen Vitiello at ICA,Virginia Commonwealth University

2018  July. Sound for New York CrowdArt Daydreaming exhibition, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China

2019  Automaton Alive performance show, Chameleon Gallery on canal, NY

2019  Automaton Alive solo performance show, Wonderville, NY

2019  Sound artist, performer for He Said I Thought, by Carol Szymanski Signs and Symbols, NY

2019 Invited performer for Carol Szymanski + Barry Schwabsky + Joan Jonas joint book launch, Bar Laika(e-flux), NY

2020 May. Floating online group exhibition, showing Memory Device

2020 December. Who’s Not Broken?, StudioGallery Project Space, Shanghai

2021  May. MíngMíng: Heart Cruise, Tank Arts Center, Shanghai

2021 July. Extro-Language World II, Fanrong. Museum, Suzhou

2021 Aug. Rituals in Rituals of the Future, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai

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2021 Sep. Sound Artist for The Ground Is Falling Exhibition by Xin LIU, Aranya Art Center,  Qinghuangdao

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2021 Nov. Unwrap, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai

2017  Cloud Club, Boston
2018  New England Underground Festival 3, Boston
2018  Fuzzstival Music Festival, Boston

2018  H0l0, New York
2018  Great Scott, Boston
2019  Brooklyn Bazaar

2019  Automaton Alive  performance, LONGING exhibition, Chameleon NY
2019  Automaton Alive  performance, Wonderville, NY

2020  Harvard Radio whrb95.3

2020   AM Art Space, Shanghai, China

2021   Ok Center, Guangzhou, China

2021   44KW, Shanghai, China

2021   Blackbox Changjiang Theatre, Shanghai, China

2021   Vas, Shanghai, China

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