Biography

Huang Guaier, born in China, is a transmedia artist and occasional curator. She holds Bachelors of Sciences in Psychology and Forensic Science from Syracuse University, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Photography department at Parsons School of Design. Her work has been exhibited in international museums and festivals, including Inna Art Space (Hangzhou, 2023), Cang Museum (Hangzhou, 2022), Photographies Conference (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2020), Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition (Beijing, 2018), “Top 20 Cutting-Edge Photographers in China” (Zhejiang Art Museum, 2017) , the theme show “Your Selfie Stick” at 2017 Lianzhou Foto Festival, China, “Governing Bodies” at Aronson Gallery, New York, and “Open Books: An Open Dialogue” at Connecticut College, New London. She founded Rear Window Gallery in Hangzhou in 2021. Her article co-written with Wang Runzhong was published on the first issue of Floating Island: Photography and Visual Cultural Studies (ed. by He Yining).

The tone of her practices is rooted in critiques on discourse of power. Her work explores gender roles in Chinese and global contexts, as well as the connection between women and nature seen as objects in human society, and extends to reflecting on and defying consumerist culture, capitalistic logic and anthropocentric hegemony. Thoughts on the technics, post-human, ocular-centrism, and ontology of mediums are woven into her diverse yet systematic art-making process, inviting viewers to question the complexity in our era.



黄乖儿，跨媒体艺术家，偶尔策展。本科于美国雪城大学获得心理学与法医学双学位，研究生在纽约帕森斯设计学院获得纯艺术硕士学位，专攻影像。作品曾入选清影艺术空间（“琳琅满目”，杭州，2023）、仓美术馆（“于暴风中心治愈我”，杭州，2022）、Photographies研讨大会（南洋理工大学，新加坡，2020）、三影堂摄影奖（三影堂摄影艺术中心，北京，2018）、青年艺术100（嘉德艺术中心，北京，2018）、Top20新锐摄影奖（浙江美术馆，杭州，2017）、连州国际摄影年展主题展（连州，2017）、中国册页：开放的书页（Connecticut College，新伦敦，2017）、“Governing Bodies”（Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries，纽约，2017）、等国内外展览和活动。2021年初于杭州创立后窗画廊。2022年文章在何伊宁主编的《浮屿：摄影与视觉文化研究》发表。

她的实践根植于对于权力话语的批判。作品探索了在中外语境下性别角色的差异，以及自然与女性作为对象在人类社会中的趋同性，进而延伸到对消费文化、资本主义逻辑和人类中心霸权的元叙事反思与抵抗。对于技术、后人类、视觉中心主义、媒介本体论等的关注也交织在她多元又系统的创作中，愿唤起观众对于我们这个时代复杂性的思考。

 

Email: huangguaier@qq.com
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Exhibitions

2024

  • “The Wind from the East: East Asian Contemporary Art”, Tower Gallery at Eton College, London, UK

2023

  • “Pink Institute” Solo Exhibition of Guaier Huang, Loverise Lab, Hangzhou, China

  • ‧“Quiet Shores, Vibrant Swells: The Young Waves from East Asia”, European Cultural Academy, Venice, Italy

  • “The Infinite Game: Dicing”, Hexagon Gallery, Shenzhen, China

  • “lín láng mǎn mù”, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China

2022

  • “Hide/Seek: Unlimited Game”, WAS Art Center, Ningbo, China

  • Ningbo Cultural Expo, Ningbo Cultural Center, Ningbo, China

  • Beijing Contemporary Art Expo, National Agricultural Venue, Beijing, China

  • “Healing in the Heart of Storm,” Cang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2021

  • “Mumbler: Emotions and Disabilities”, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China

  • “The Running Water Takes Me to a Farther Lake,” Meisyakan, Ningbo, China

  • Chiri Photography Festival, Enjoy Art Museum, Beijing, China

2020

  • “The Implications of the Camera,” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA

  • “Time Perception: Through Images and Installations,” Coutts Art Center, Shanghai, China

  • “Harmony in Diversity: New Senses,” The Mix Place, Hefei, China.

  • “A Ripple in the Data Flow,” Online Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2019

  • Photographies 2020 Conference: Photography In Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • “Person, Place or Thing: New Ideas in Photography,” Sharon Art Center Gallery, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Peterborough, NH

  • “Where Are We Going?,” School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

  • “New Art from China 2019,” Islamabad Artfest 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan.

2018

  • 2018 Photo-ADT Coming Image, Art Museum of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • 2018 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China

  • 2018 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Xiamen Center, Xiamen, China

  • 2018 European Literature Night, Czech Center New York, New York, NY

  • 2018 Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China

  • "NOW", Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY

  • AMNUA International Exhibition of Photography, "Screen Refreshing. Labor", Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China

  • "The Reconfigured Selfhood", Hunter College 205 Gallery, New York, NY

  • "Outsider", Yui Gallery, New York, NY

  • "NOW", Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China

  • abC Art Book in China, M Woods Museum, Beijing, China

  • “Apparatus of Discomfort”, 3 Gallery, New York, NY

2017

  • 20th Chinese Cutting-Edge Contemporary Photography Exhibition Top 20, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

  • Lianzhou Foto Festival 2017, "Your Selfie Stick (and You)", Lianzhou, Guangdong, China

  • “Governing Bodies", Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY

  • “Open Books: A New Dialogue”, Connecticut Collage Library, New London, CT

  • Photoville Photography Festival 2017, "Apparatus of Discomfort", Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY

  • “Now, An Unbecoming”, Skybridge Gallery, New York, NY

  • "Manifestos Unheard" Performance Art Show, 25East Gallery, New York, NY

  • "Save As...", 3rd Lab, Chongqing, China

  • BABZ Art Book Fair, Knockdown Center, New York, NY

  • Photography, Artbook@MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

  • Photography, Printed Matter, New York, NY

  • "Photo, Matters.", 25East Gallery, New York, NY

  • Lishui International Photo Festival, "If Art Could Start Over", Lishui, Zhejiang, China

  • 17th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

  • 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China

2016

  • 16th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

  • "(Re) Public". Post-election, 3 Gallery, New York, NY

 

 

Publications & Honors

2022

  • Floating Island: Photography and Visual Cultural Studies (ed. by He Yining). Issue 1, May 2022. Publisher: Jiazazhi.

2020

2019

  • “Contemporary Photographic Art in the Age of A.I.”, Chinese Photography (ISSN 0529-6420), Issue.476, Feb. 2019.

  • The Shanghai Literary Review, Issue 5, December, 2019

2018

  • Photography Is Art Magazine (ISSN 2523-0824), Issue 12, Dec. 2018.

  • “Interlink”, 2018 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition Catalogue, Zhejiang Photographic Publishing House, ISBN 978-7-5514-2139-3.

  • "Top 20 Cutting-Edging Photographers", Chinese Photography (ISSN 2304-7577), Issue. 463, Jan. 2018.

  • "Best New Photographers of the Year 2017", Fotomen Magazine (ISSN 1004-0153), Issue. 395, Jan. 2018.

  • “How do you be yourself in the virtual world?”, Modern Weekly (ISBN 6943144408018), Issue 1026, Aug. 2018.

  • Parsons Photography Scholarship 2018

2017

  • 2017 Top 20 Chinese Contemporary Photographers Exhibition. Zhejiang Photographic Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5514-2076-1.

  • Natural Growth: Cases of 100 Chinese Photographers born after 1985. China Photographic Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5179-0653-7.

  • Parsons Photography Scholarship 2017

 

interviews & Reviews

2018

2017

 

Public Collections

  • Arts Council Malta in New York, U.S.

  • Zhejiang Art Museum

 

Artist Talks

  • “Re-functionalized Touch-Vision: Transindividuating Participants in a Technical Reality,” Photographies Conference: Photography in Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore.

  • "Cultural Heterotopia: Asian Identities, Languages, and Contemporary Art", SIPA at Columbia University, New York, U.S.

 

展览

2024

  • “The Wind from the East: East Asian Contemporary Art“，伊顿公学，伦敦，英国

2023

  • 个展“粉色研究所”，Loverise Lab, 杭州，中国

  • ‧“Quiet Shores, Vibrant Swells: The Young Waves from East Asia”，欧洲文化学院，威尼斯，意大利

  • “无限游戏：掷骰子”，棱画廊，深圳，中国

  • “琳琅满目”，清影艺术空间，杭州，中国

2022

  • 宁波文化博览会，宁波文化中心，宁波，中国

  • 北京当代·艺术博览会，全国农业展览馆，北京，中国

  • “无限游戏:捉迷藏“，WAS艺术中心，宁波，中国

  • “于风暴中心治愈我“，仓美术馆，杭州，中国 

2021

  • “呢喃者：述情与障碍”，四川美术学院实验艺术学院展厅，重庆，中国

  • “流水把我带向更远的湖里“，明写馆，宁波，中国

  • 迟日摄影节，悦美术馆，北京，中国

2020

  • “The Implications of the Camera,” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, 宾夕法尼亚州，美国

  • “时间知觉：装置影像展”， 库茨艺术中心，上海，中国

  • “和而不同”， 长江和集，合肥，中国

  • “A Ripple in the Data Flow,” 线上展览, 纽约视觉艺术学院，纽约，美国

2019

  • Photographies 2020 Conference: Photography In Asia, 南洋理工大学，新加坡

  • “Person, Place or Thing: New Ideas in Photography”, 新罕布什州艺术学院，彼得伯勒，美国

  • “Where Are We Going?”, 纽约视觉艺术学院，纽约，美国

  • 2019 伊斯兰堡艺术节，“来自中国的新艺术”，伊斯兰堡，巴基斯坦


2018

  • 欧洲文学之夜作品展，捷克文化中心，纽约，美国

  • 2018三影堂摄影奖作品展，三影堂摄影艺术中心，北京，中国

  • 2018三影堂摄影奖作品展，三影堂摄影艺术中心，厦门，中国

  • 2018青年艺术100，嘉德艺术中心，北京，中国

  • Photo-ADT Coming Image: 人工智能时代摄影图像的空间转换，清华大学美术学院美术馆，北京，中国

  • AMNUA国际摄影展，“刷屏/劳作”，南京艺术学院美术馆，南京，中国

  • “NOW”，Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries，纽约，美国

  • "重构的自我“，Hunter College 205画廊，纽约，美国

  • "局外人“，Yui画廊，纽约，美国

  • abC艺术书展，木木美术馆，北京，中国

  • “Apparatus of Discomfort", 3画廊，纽约，美国

 

2017

  •  "Now, An Unbecoming"当代艺术展，Skybridge画廊，纽约，美国

  • 开放的书页：新的对话，康涅狄格学院图书馆，新伦敦，康涅狄格州，美国

  • TOP20·2017中国当代摄影新锐展，浙江美术馆，杭州，中国

  • “Manifestos Unheard"行为艺术展，25East画廊，纽约，美国

  • 丽水国际摄影节，“如果艺术可以重来” 学术展，丽水，中国

  • 连州国际摄影年展，“我的自拍杆”主题展，连州，中国

  • “Governing Bodies”，Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries，纽约，美国

  • 第17届平遥国际摄影展，平遥，中国

  • “Photoville 2017”摄影展，布鲁克林大桥公园，纽约，美国

  • “Photo, Matters.”摄影展，25East画廊，纽约，美国

  • 第二届长江国际影像双年展，重庆，中国

  • “Photography”，MoMA PS1艺术书店，纽约，美国

  • “另存为”，第3影像实验室，重庆，中国

  • “Photography”，Printed Matter艺术书店，纽约，美国

  • BABZ艺术书籍博览会，布鲁克林，纽约，美国

 

2016

  • 第16届平遥国际摄影展，平遥，中国

  • “(Re)Public”，“Post-election”摄影展，3画廊，纽约，美国

 

 

出版物

2022

  •  《浮屿：摄影与视觉文化研究》，创刊号，主编：何伊宁，2022年

2019


2018

  • 《摄影是艺术》，2018年12月刊，第12期，ISSN 2523-0824

  • 《周末画报》，2018年8月18日，第1026期，ISBN 6943144408018

  • 《起承 - 2018三影堂摄影奖作品展》，浙江摄影出版社，ISBN 978-7-5514-2139-3

  • 《摄影之友》，“年度新星”，2018年一月刊，ISSN 2304-7577

  • 《中国摄影》，2018年一月刊，ISSN 1004-0153


2017

  • 《中国当代摄影新锐展作品集》，浙江摄影出版社，ISBN 978-7-5514-2076-1

  • 《自然生长：百名85后中国摄影师个案剖析》，中国摄影出版社，ISBN 978-7-5179-0653-7

 

 

采访与评论

2020

2019

2018

2017

 

 

公共收藏

马耳他驻纽约艺术委员会

浙江美术馆


演讲

2020

2018

  • "Cultural Heterotopia: Asian Identities, Languages, and Contemporary Art", 哥伦比亚大学国际与公共关系学院，纽约，美国