Katinka Huang


ABOUT

Katinka Huang (b. 1998, Shanghai, China) examines the tension between Western ideals of gender propriety and Eastern perspectives on femininity. Her abrupt move to England from China and subsequent experiences at an all-girls school prompted her to explore the complexities of identity and womanhood. Elements of the female form are deconstructed and juxtaposed to create subversive, satirical, and often absurd narratives around womanhood. These accounts are rooted in moments of dissociation, where Katinka departs from reality and enters a space of play.

On the canvas, Katinka liberates the female identity to embody crudeness, childlike innocence, fury, and profound sadness—their bodies undergo a metamorphosis by fragmenting, dissolving, or emerging anew. Katinka’s dissociative bouts are a temporary escape from the cultural ideologies of womanhood, enabling her to reimagine femininity in all its contradictions.


WORKS

The New York Fog, 2024
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
60 x 62 in. | 152.40 x 157.48 cm

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Katinka Huang received her BFA from Paris College of Art and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has exhibited in solo and group shows internationally, including: Salon Beyond Lobotomy (Paris, 2019), General Expenses (Mexico City, 2022), Lux Feminae (Long Island City, 2022), Echo Box and After Eden (LatchKey Gallery, New York, 2023), Earthquake Relief Benefit Auction (Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, 2023), Really From (NYC Culture Club, New York, 2023), Genesis (Chambers Fine Art, upstate New York, 2023), A Happy Beginning (Latitude Gallery, New York, 2023), Heart of a Tiger (benefit for Planned Parenthood, New York, 2023), Lo Que Tú Ves (Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain, 2023), and Allegory of Redemption (Galeria Caylus, Madrid, Spain, 2024). She also participated in Spring Break Art Fair (New York, 2023),

Coddled, 2024
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
48 x 36 in. | 121.92 x 91.44 cm

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Pros & Pros ( A Self Portrait), 2024
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
48 x 36 in. | 121.92 x 91.44 cm

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