Photo: Clyde Nichols
Kitty Wang is a Chinese-American interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, working across video, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores the intersections of kitsch, femininity, and cultural perception—mining the aesthetics of mass media and domestic iconography to question how womanhood is constructed, consumed, and transformed across time.
Born and raised in Queens, NY, Wang is deeply influenced by the layered realities of American and Chinese cultural narratives. Her work navigates the shifting stereotypes of women in both contexts, reflecting on how media evolution shapes—and is shaped by—societal norms. Nature often threads through these explorations, serving as both a metaphor and counterpoint to the artificial landscapes of femininity.
Wang is an alumna of the High School of Art and Design and The Cooper Union, where she was awarded the Robert Breer Film Award. Her solo exhibitions at Cooper Union, When Will You Play? and Superstar Superstar death, examined performance, persona, and the blurred boundaries between spectacle and self.
Through vibrant, satirical, and often uncanny juxtapositions, Kitty Wang invites viewers into spaces that are as disarming as they are familiar—spaces that ask us to reconsider what we see, what we believe, and why.