Sihan Cui is a documentary filmmaker and photographer who lives and works in New York City. She graduated from the MFA program in Photography, Video and Related Media department of the School of Visual Arts.
Sihan Cui has been committed to documentary photography and documentary filmmaking. She has been focusing on the diversification of social communities, the living reality of social minorities, and the public's stereotypes of them. Her photography project “520”, which is about the betel nuts beauty in Taiwan, was shown at the 17th Pingyao Photography Festival.
After moving to New York, she noticed that Chinese immigrants' living status in New York is very special and complicated, especially for the “new immigrants” who moved to America after the 1980s. She began to focus on the situation of Chinese labor immigrants in the United States and has been working on a series of projects about that. Among them, the project "After 365 days" has been shown in several exhibitions, including the Ph21 Photography Gallery in Budapest, and was published in several publications including Dodho Magazine. She is now working on an independent documentary film “The Wave", on the theme of Chinese labor immigrants' living status. The film is in post-production.