Xiaorui Huang

Xiaorui Huang
New Hyde Park, New York, USA

STATEMENT

My work echoes my intellectual and artistic defiance of historical and contemporary human rights violations. It is an act of resistance against the cultural core values of contemporary society. My art practice is an act of freedom and defiance for myself as a Chinese. My work brings attention to the structural injustices against human rights. I experience and create space and form to express complicated thoughts and feelings. My layered paintings and collage works challenge the stereotypical social norms of China through representational portraiture and occasional abstraction and through a deeply expressionistic use of both texture and pigment on the canvas.

BIO

Xiaorui Huang is a New York-based Chinese human rights artist born and raised in China. In 2012, Huang went to Ipswich, England, to attend St Joseph’s College, where she pursued her A-levels with a major in Fine Art. Huang later moved to New York, where she obtained her BFA at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Then, she received her MFA from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 2023.​ Huang has been working as a supplemental painting instructor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York since the spring of 2019. She began to teach as an adjunct assistant professor at CUNY in Fall 2023.

Huang’s artistic practice revolves around the exploration of social justice issues in contemporary human rights, with a particular emphasis on topics such as children with disabilities, Asian feminism, and political resistance. Her artwork delves into various aspects, including the rights of children with disabilities, contemporary feminist concepts, the social rights of women within the Asian community, gender discrimination, queer visibility, and gender equality movements in Asian society.

​Huang’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Walter & Joan Hobbs Art Gallery in New York, group exhibitions at the Camelback Gallery (a virtually gallery based in Arizona), Powerhouse Art​, Theatre 1 Breezeway Gallery, Shirley Fiterman Art Center in New York, and Saatchi Gallery in London.

ARTIST CONTACT

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