b. 1994 in Wisconsin, USA
lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
stephanie mei huang (pronouns: they/them) completed their MFA in Art at the California Institute of the Arts (Santa Clarita, USA) in 2020, and they received their BA from Scripps College (Claremont, USA) in 2016.
Fellowships and awards
2021
The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA
2020
Residency Contemporary Calgary Collider, Calgary, Canada
Lightning Fund, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, USA
Relief Fund for L.A. County Visual Artists, J. Paul Getty Trust and California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
L.A. Young Creatives Grant, Mission Asset Fund, Los Angeles, USA
2018-2020
Lillian Disney Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2019
Residency Millay Colony, Austerlitz, USA
Residency ACRE, Steuben, USA
2016
Payton Watkins Media Studies Award, Scripps College, Claremont, USA
2015
Hearst Foundation Thesis Research Fellowship, Scripps College, Claremont, USA
Ruth George Poetry Prize, Scripps College, Claremont, USA
Getty Marrow Multicultural Undergraduate Grant, Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
2011
Certified Environmental Youth Ambassador, Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, Los Angeles, USA
Selected solo exhibitions
2022
how to hobble a young horse, PULPO Gallery, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
2021
the foul lump in my throat, 4th Ward Project Space, Chicago, USA
neither donkey nor horse, Office Space, Salt Lake City, USA
(self portraits as) neither donkey nor horse, Hauser & Wirth Book and Printed Matter Lab, Los Angeles, USA
2020
the foul lump in my throat, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
2019
self-armature, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
2018
presence/absence V, Marfa Film Festival, Marfa, USA
2017
presence/absence IV, Marfa Live Arts, Marfa, USA
2016
presence/absence III, Marfa Live Arts, Marfa, USA
Selected Group exhibitions
2023
Imagined Wests, The Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, USA
Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, USA
It's material world, PULPO Gallery, Munich, Germany
2022
Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA
Everything is Common, Artists Space, New York, USA
With her voice, penetrate earth’s floor, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
2021
General Objects, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA
2020
Solitude, Arc Gallery, Chicago, USA
Hindsight is 20/20, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, USA
Art.Response.Now, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
Time is Out of Joint, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
ARCHIVE MACHINES, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Not Your Model Minority, Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Over the Structures 2020, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
SoCal MFA ’20, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, USA
Reflections on Exile, Root Division, San Francisco, USA
2019
Heav’n Rescued Land, The Neon Heater, Findlay, USA
Lie, Cheat, Steal, Kresge Gallery, Lyon College, Batesville, USA
20/20, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
New Wight Biennial: Circadian Regions, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Artist Statement: Master of Fine Arts, The Great Park Gallery, Irvine, USA
And then there is California, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, USA
SoCal MFA ’19, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, USA
2018
this is it, is it not here, where it is, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
2017
Trois Femme, Pure Joy, Marfa, USA
Made for Marfa, Marfa Studio of Arts, Marfa, USA
Public Collections
New Genres Library, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, USA
Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, USA