Nina Kuo

Nina Kuo
Nationality United States
Occupation Visual Artist
Painter
Multimedia Artist
Years active 1975-present
Website MythicalMuse.com
Dot bamboo - a mural painting and video capturing the evolving landscape of floating dots and myriad of colors. Curated by Luchia MeiHua Lee
Scholars shopping bag and dog
Mixed Blessing, p. 140

Nina Kuo is a New York-based visual artist, painter, and multimedia artist. She has exhibited with artists such as Ai Wei Wei, Martin Wong, Zhang Hongtu and Tehching Hsieh at institutions like Brooklyn Museum of Art and New Museum in New York City.[1][2]

Early life

Moving to New York City in the 1980s, Kuo joined a community group known as Basement Workshop and was one of the first artists in residence at Asian American Art Centre.[3] Later in the 1990s Kuo was part of Godzilla, "a group of Asian American artists, writers and curators who would help reshape the landscape in which Asian American art would be shown and perceived in the mainstream."[3][4]

Career

Kuo, who works with different media,[3] is currently working on a series of video, animation and installation art works called Mythical Muse, which "depicts illusion, feminine irony and transformations of Asian influences."[1] Her Tang Ladies work has been described as "statuesque, delicate and quiet on the canvas as they investigate anachronistic details,"[5] For her residency at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, she explored the power of Asian American identity.[6] Kuo has had a “Politeness in Poverty photo mural installed in the B’way Lafayette subway station in New York City and has traveled and photographed widely, focusing on cultural gestures and the aging process as it is lived out in different cultures."[7]

She is the daughter of abstract painter James K.Y. Kuo, and attended SUNY Buffalo.

Collections

References

  1. 1 2 "Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Nina Kuo". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  2. ↑ "Kuo, Nina - Selected Document - artasiamerica - A Digital Archive for Asian / Asian American Contemporary Art History". artasiamerica. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  3. 1 2 3 hyun Offline (2006-07-06). "Caught Between Worlds: Artist Nina Kuo". Asiance Magazine. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  4. ↑ Chang, Alexandra. Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie to the Barnstormers. Beijing: Timezone 8 Editions, 2009. Print.
  5. ↑ Envisioning Diaspora, Asian American Visual Artist Collectives, Publisher: Timezone 8 Publisher, Beijing and New York University (2008)
  6. ↑ Lippard, Lucy R. The Lure of the Local, Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, Publisher: The New Press, NY (1997) p. 17 ISBN I-56584-2480
  7. ↑ Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessing, New Art in a Multicultural America, Publisher: Pantheon Press, (1990) p. 140 ISBN 0-394 57759-0
  8. ↑ "Nina Kuo". ArtSlant. 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  9. ↑ "Prints by Chinese American artists produced by the Basement Workshop, New York. Includes: Arlan Huang - untitled; William Jung - Slave II; Nina Kuo - Neon Deviation; Colin Lee - untitled; John Woo - untitled". Library of Congress. 1 January 1982.
  10. ↑ "Nina Kuo (New York, NY)". Center for Photography at Woodstock: CPW.
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