Catalina Ouyang's work engages object-making, interdisciplinary environments, and time-based projects to indicate counternarratives around representation and self-definition. Ouyang's work addresses how a subject orients in physical and sociopolitical space: what histories and discourses are inscribed on the body, how the body exists in contingency with architecture and bureaucratic structures. Through both expansion and fragmentation, Ouyang proposes the body as a politicized landscape subject to partition. Working gnostically with materials, ideas, and stories that over years they build relationships with, Ouyang also attends to critical reimaging of historical formation wherein monstrosity, animality, and toxicity act as ciphers for the psycho-affective alienation of the minor subject.
Recent solo exhibitions include Real Art Ways, Hartford, US; Knockdown Center, Queens, US; Make Room, Los Angeles, US; and Rubber Factory, New York, US. Ouyang’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Sculpture Center, Queens, US (curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds); Nicodim, Los Angeles, US; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, US (curated by Kelly Akashi); BRIC, Brooklyn, US; Helena Anrather, New York, US; Asia Art Center, Taipei; and many more. Previous residencies include the OBRAS Foundation, Smack Mellon, and Storm King. They will be featured at group exhibition "52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone" at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opening in Summer 2022. Ouyang received an MFA from Yale University in 2019. They are represented by Make Room Los Angeles, and Lyles & King, New York.
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font VII, 2021
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reliquary corpus (There is no I that chooses / There is no I that I choose), 2021
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font III, 2020
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untitled partition, 2020
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crisis management (P[erseus] came for the holes), 2019
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Evil, 2019
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last laugh, 2019
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risk assessment (but, but what made me do the bad thing?), 2019
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when it dies its head will turn toward the hill where it was born, 2018
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Desire Encapsulated
Group Exhibition June 19 - July 31, 2021Andrew Sendor, Catalina Ouyang, Guimi You, Lior Modan, Bambou Gili, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Joeun Kim Aatchim, Lita Albuquerque, Yuri Yuan, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Yanyan Huang, Yifan Jiang, Yesiyu Zhao, Ruby Leyi Yang, Chris Oh, Hiba Schahbaz and Claire Colette.Read more -
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A Body of Her Own
Mitsuko Brooks, Brook Hsu, Iris Yirei Hu, Catalina Ouyang, Ilona Szwarc, Hiejin Yoo January 27 - March 4, 2018
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Make Room artists included in group exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery in London
Guimi You, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Astra Huimeng Wang, Jacopo Pagin, Yuri Yuan and Xin Liu August 9, 2022Works by Guimi You, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Joeun Kim Aatchim, Astra Huimeng Wang, Jacopo Pagin, Yuri Yuan, Shana Hoehn, Roksana Pirouzmand, Xin Liu among...Read more -
Joeun Kim Aatchim, Catalina Ouyang, Guimi You, Yuri Yuan
"My Secret Garden" at Asia Art Center, Taipei September 18, 2021Joeun Kim Aatchim, Catalina Ouyang, Guimi You, Yuri Yuan are all featured in Asia Art Center's newest exhibition, My Secret Garden , curated by Melanie...Read more -
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"White Male Ally" at Lyles & King, New York September 1, 2021White Male Ally, an exhibition of Catalina Ouyang's recent work, will be on view at Lyles & King September 1 - October 16, 2021. 'The...Read more -
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Opening Thursday March 25: "In Practice" at Sculpture Center March 21, 2021Catalina Ouyang will be part of this year's In Practice exhibition at Sculpture Center, curated by Katherine Simone Reynolds, alongside Carlos Agredano, Leslie Cuyjet, Kyrae...Read more
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Catalina Ouyang's solo project “the siren” is now on view at Real Art Way February 17, 2021As the recipient of Real Art Award 2019, Catalina Ouyang solo project “the siren” is now on view at Real Art Way. “Ouyang’s sculptures and...Read more -
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Selected as Sculpture Center 2021 In Practice artists February 1, 2021SculptureCenter is excited to announce the 2021 In Practice artists! The exhibition will include newly commissioned sculpture, audio works, and video installations by eleven artists....Read more -
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Catalina Ouyang’s solo exhibition “cunt waifu” opens at Lyles & King today and on view through December 6 November 4, 20202020.10.31-2020.12.6Read more -
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Solo Exhibition "It has always been the perfect instrument" opens tonight at Knockdown Center, on view through April 12 February 29, 20202020.2.29-2020.4.12 Catalina Ouyang: it has always been the perfect instrument is a multimedia exhibition of large-scale interactive sculpture, salvaged objects, sound, moving image, and architectural...Read more
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Catalina Ouyang will be participating in the Shandaken: storm king residency program May 25, 20192019.5.23 Beginning in June, a handful of people will temporarily be able to call the sprawling, verdant grounds of the Storm King Art Center in...Read more -
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"ONE DOES NOT KNOW IT, ONE DOES NOT DESIRE IT" IS ON VIEW AT KRAVETS WEHBY GALLERY December 12, 20182019.1.19 Catalina Ouyang’s new work “one does not know it, one does not desire it” is now on view at Kravets Wehby Gallery , in...Read more -
MAKE ROOM/BANG BOOTH IS SELECTED THE 10 BEST BOOTHS AT ART021 ON ARTSY
November 14, 20182018.11.9 “One of the more peculiar collections of curios at Art021 comes from Beijing Art Now Gallery (BANG) and its Los Angeles sister space, Make...Read more -
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"BODY.LAND.SNARL"(2018) IS ON VIEW IN AN GROUP EXHIBITION TITLED "THIS COUNTRY" October 26, 20182018.10.26 Opening Reception: This Country Friday, October 26, 2018 at 12:15pm South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery Saint Louis-based multimedia artist Kahlil Robert Irving...Read more
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Catalina Ouyang: One To Watch
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Make Room Los Angeles’ Group Exhibition “Desire Encapsulated” Heats Up Hollywood
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The 10 Best Booths at Art021
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