Cindy Huang

Cindy Huang is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice—encompassing installation, painting, performance and social sculpture—explores ideas of exchange, generosity and adjacency. Her research interests focus on the histories of local Chinese migrant communities and the complex relationships that tauiwi, non-indigenous New Zealanders, can and could have as tangata tiriti. In previous works, Huang has highlighted the lack of recorded history and loss of knowledge relating to Chinese here; and specifically, the whanaungatanga and manaakitanga, reciprocity and kinship, between Māori and Chinese migrant communities in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Cindy Huang (born 1997, Rotorua, 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), All Eyes, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland (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 (2022), A place to call home, Bergman Gallery, Auckland (2023), Nova, Sumer, Auckland (2023).