About this Event
Each summer and fall, Hong Hong (b. 1989, Hefei, Anhui, China) travels to faraway and distinct locations to make paper. The environmental, site-specific investigations map interstitial relationships between landscape, time, and the body through cartographic, symbolic, and material languages. During the winter and spring, she forms paintings directly on the floor of her studio. These schematics combine intergenerational storytelling, collaborative texts, and image-making to document states of interiority and subjectivity.
Hong is the recipient of the Chiaro Award from Headlands Center for the Arts (2025), a Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024 - 2026), the Margie E. West Prize at University of Georgia (2024), a United States Artists Fellowship in Craft (2023), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting (2023), a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship at MacDowell (2020), a Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (2019), an Artistic Excellence Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of Arts (2019), and a Creation of New Work Grant from the Edward C. And Ann T. Roberts Foundation (2018 - 2019). She has also participated in residencies at McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2022), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2020 - 2021), Yaddo (2019), and I-Park (2018).
Hong’s projects have been presented in exhibitions at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA), Below Grand (New York, NY), Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA), Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME), NXTHVN (New Haven, CT), Ortega Y Gasset Projects (New York, NY), Oklahoma Contemporary (Oklahoma City, OK), 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. Her practice received press in publications such as Art21, Art New England, Boston Art Review, Southwest Contemporary, Hyperallergic, Public Parking, Two Coats of Paint, and Glasstire.
Hong Hong currently lives and works in Oklahoma.
This talk is presented in conjunction with Tephra ICA. Hong Hong’s exhibition with Kimberly M. Becoat is on view now through December 20 at Tephra ICA.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Katzen Arts Center at American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States
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