2015 Season III

 

Artist Statement

Catalina Ouyang's practice spans sculpture, language, installation, performance, video, participatory projects, and other modalities to inhabit the interstices of myth, desire, subjugation, and monstrosity.  Ouyang’s solo exhibitions include: it has always been the perfect instrument at Knockdown Center (Queens, NY,); marrow at Make Room (Los Angeles, CA); fish mystery in the shift horizon at Rubber Factory (New York, NY); blood in D minor at Selena Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); and an elegy for Marco at the Millitzer Gallery (St. Louis, MO). Group exhibitions include BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), Helena Anrather (New York, NY), fffriedrich (Frankfurt, Germany), like a little disaster (Polignano a Mare, Italy), Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico), projects+gallery (St. Louis, Missouri), No Place Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), Field Projects (New York, NY), and Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL). Ouyang has attended residencies at Shandaken: Storm King, the NARS Foundation, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Ouyang has received awards from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Santo Foundation, Real Art Ways, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Ouyang holds an MFA from Yale University and is based in New York City.