Cindy Huang 黄馨贤 is a prodigious maker of things. And though still earlier in her career, she is quickly becoming known as an artist in possession of considerable talent and ambition; for her expansive multi component installations, comprised of innumerable small life-like objects, rendered in clay, and more recently, bronze. Informed by her lived experience as a wahine tauiwi, a New Zealand woman of Chinese descent, she readily drawing upon the legacies and traditions of both cultures and lands. Her work poetically engaging with a specific social histories and narratives, as she seeks to explore ideas of exchange, generosity and adjacency.
Cindy Huang (born 1997, Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand) currently lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She holds Bachelor degrees in Fine Arts (Honours) and Arts, Art History and Media Studies (2020), and a Masters degree in Museums and Cultural Heritage (2022). Recent exhibitions include: Counter-Site: On-site, Project Space (2018), The Beaglehole’s Problem, Meanwhile, Wellington (2020), A Footnote on New Zealand History, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland (2021) and Twin Cultivation, Satellites, Auckland (2022), Cindy Huang (solo), Te Atamira, Queenstown (2023), Nova, Sumer, Auckland (2023), Tracing a gilded trail, Sumer, Auckland (2023), Offering, Hastings Art Gallery, Hastings (2024).