Annan Shao (b.1998) is a new media artist.Her works explore the evolution of individual motivation by combining the mediums of new media animation and mixed media installations. Through the creation of virtual ecology and mixed media field narratives,she maps reality with allegorical hypothetical spatial and temporal events.

Her works have been exhibited at Tank Shanghai, Gravity Art Museum(Beijing), Guangdong Contemporary Art Center,ZabludowiczCollection(London), etc. In 2024, Reptile Cafe won the Nescience or the State of not Knowing international digital ar call curated by mmmad art festival. In 2023, her work Customised New Routine won the From Micro To Macro and Back digital art call by smth art in Spain,and her work Highway Sushi won the NAFI Future prize from Nanjing Art Fair International.

She graduated from the China Academy of Art with a Bachelor's degree in visual communication and a Master's degree in fine art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.