Current Perspectives: Hong Hong

Current Perspectives: Hong Hong

Join us at the Kansas City Art Institute for a lecture by artist Hong Hong. Born in Hefei, Anhui, China, Hong Hong works with image-making and language through repetition, disruption, movement, accumulation, limitation, translation, evaporation, and dispersion. She considers the field of painting, the materiality of the body, the semiotics of poetry as well as the histories of craft in relation to identity, memory, nations, and land. Hong’s practice centers the creation and preservation of a Chinese-American subjectivity rooted in largeness, multiplicity, power, opacity, self-definition, and self-determination.

This event is free and open to the public.

Hong Hong is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2025), Chiaro Award in Painting at Headlands Center for the Arts (2025), Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024 - 2026), United States Artists Fellowship in Craft (2023), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting (2023), Carnegie Foundation Fellowship at MacDowell (2020), Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (2019), and Artistic Excellence Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of Arts (2019). She has participated in residencies at McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2022), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2020 - 2021), Yaddo (2019), and I-Park (2018).

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Diverseworks (Houston, TX), Oklahoma Contemporary (Oklahoma City, OK), Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA), Ortega Y Gasset Projects (New York, NY), Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME), NXTHVN (New Haven, CT), Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA), Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art (Reston, VA), San Francisco Center for Book Arts (San Francisco, CA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH), Texas Asia Society (Houston, TX), and University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, TX), among others.

Header Image: 河/River. Materials: Hand-formed paper made with repurposed paper products, sun, rain, acrylic paint, Sumi ink, poems, a feather from a Northern Flicker, fallen foliage, and water from the Massachusetts Bay, White Oak Bayou, and Arkansas River. 109 inches (H) x 174 inches (W) x 45 inches (D). 2021 - 2024.