Born in 1993, Chicago, IL. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2019
MFA, Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2015
BFA, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Afterimage, No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH
Trick, Lyles & King, New York, NY
2022
forgive everything, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Three Betrayals, No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH
2021
White Male Ally, Lyles & King, New York, NY
THE SIREN, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2020
cunt waifu, Lyles & King, New York, NY
Common Burn, the bunker, Los Angeles, CA
it has always been the perfect instrument, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
Catalina Ouyang and Josh Dihle, presented by Eric Ruschman, Calle Edison 137, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
marrow, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
fish mystery in the shift horizon, Rubber Factory, New York, NY
2018
blood in D minor, Selena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
DEATH DRIVE JOY RIDE, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Open Fracture (with Benjamin Rosenthal), PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO
sister, destroyer, lover, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2016
an elegy for Marco, Millitzer Gallery, St. Louis, MO
follies of the tuna, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
2015
Virgin Pacific, fort gondo compound for the arts, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (forthcoming)
Lovescene, curated by Mara Hassan, En.Zo Metalworks, New York, NY
The Wrong Sea, Night Gallery x Dunes, Dunes, Portland, ME
Hovering, Capsule Shanghai, Venice, IT
RE: REPRESENTATION, curated by Amanda Ba, James Fuentes, New York, NY
The Ceremony Must be Found: Ritual as Artistic Practice, curated by Anna Cahn, The
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2023
fuckgirl collapse, curated by Mara Hassan, Room 3557, Los Angeles, CA
The Triumph of Death, Marinaro, New York, NY
This is Out of Hand, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D, Portland, ME
I’ve Gone to Look for America, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
Old Ghost New Light, Dinner Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Sacrament of the Body, Kandlhofer Gallery, Vienna, Austria, Wonderland, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
Machines of Desire, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Vaster Than Empires, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA
Wonder Women, curated by Kathy Huang, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
The Hearing Trumpet, organized by Danielle Shang, Paris, FR
Mouthed Echos, Lyles & King, New York, NY
2021
In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY, curated by Katherine Simone Reynolds
Weight, HOUSING, New York, NY
Wonderland, EPOCH Gallery
Delusionarium 5, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
PAPA RAGAZZE!, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I Don’t Know Whether the Earth is Spinning or Not: VII Moscow International Biennale for
Young Art, curated by Francesca Altamura and Lizaveta Matveeva
Materia Medica, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Kelly Akashi
Death Becomes Her, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond the Visible, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY, curated by We narrate us (Jennifer Chia-ling Ho and Min Sun Jeon)
2019
Too Full to Cry, Shin Gallery, New York, NY
Bottari, 55 Hester St, New York, NY, curated by Tae Guen Um
10 years: 100 sculptures, with Anonymous Gallery, Paris, France
Felix Art Fair, with Brennan & Griffin and Catbox Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Ripe at Dawn (MFA Thesis Exhibition), Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2018
Interwoven, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Dominic Chambers
Odds & Ends Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
FURIES, Helena Anrather, New York, NY
ART021, with Make Room, Shanghai, China
This Country, Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, curated by Kahlil Irving
Garden Level, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ada Potter
Gentle Heterodoxy, fffriedrich, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Sebastjan Brank and Dennis Brzek
10 years: 100 sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
The White Noise Mixtape (as part of The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial), 47 Canal, New York, NY, curated by Ten Izu and Henry Murphy
Everytime you switch me off, I die. A Little, Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy
Seeing Other People, projects+gallery, St. Louis, MO, curated by Jessica Baran
SPRING: Amanda, Adrienne, Body, Catalina, Cole, Danica, Edo, Felicia, Jesse, Michael,
Misha & The Girls, Mort, Rachel, Ryan and Shane, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO
Mist-Wreatched, SPRING / BREAK 2018, New York, NY, curated by Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow
specular sounds ii: extending her vortex, LUMP projects, Raleigh, NC
A Body of Her Own, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
New Monuments for a Better Tomorrow, Pt. I, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jesse Firestone
Chimera, No Place, Columbus, OH, curated by Cudelice Brazelton
2017
Imagined Communities, Nationalism & Violence, Rubber Factory, New York, NY
Spectrum Miami, with Mary Sky, Miami, FL
Let Me Be an Object That Screams, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, curated by Matt Morris
Art San Diego, with Mary Sky, San Diego, CA
You Can't Make Love to Concrete, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN, curated by J.E. Baker
Nobody's Home, DEMO Project, Springfield, IL
2016
Julie spoke softly under her long, skinny nose, Field Projects, New York, NY, curated by Paulina Bebecka
House of Orange, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Wilma Projects
Time With Others, Mary Sky, Hancock, VT
Tropical Summer, Parapet Four Seasons, Los Angeles, CA
Concept/Focus, Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, OK and The Luminary, St. Louis, MO, curated by Adam Welch
cream Peter, 3011 Keokuk, St. Louis, MO
Make Your Mother, Granite City Art and Design District, Granite City, IL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Faurschou Foundation, New York, NY
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
X Museum, Beijing, China
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024
Artist in Residence, Fountainhead, Miami, FL
Café Royal Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
2023
Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award, St. Louis, MO
2022
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT
2021
Artist in Residence (2020-1), Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2019
Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award
Puffin Foundation Grant
Artist in Residence, Shandaken: Storm King, New Windsor, NY
Real Art Award, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2017
Artist in Residence, North Mountain, Shanghai, West Virginia
Artist in Residence, Mary Sky, Hancock, Vermont
2016
Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Artist in Residence, OBRAS Foundation, Evora Monte, Portugal
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition FOCUS selected artist honorarium
2015
CURA Prize
2011
Elizabeth Greenshields Grant
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Franklin Sirmans, “Best of 2024 TOP TEN”, Artforum, December 1
Travis Diehl, “Artist Catalina Ouyang Is Seeking Retribution for Balthus’s Model - and Themself”, CULTURED, November 21
Sahir Ahmed, “Catalina Ouyang’s Poetic Forms,” Office, July 24
Jenny Wu, “Catalina Ouyang’s Torture Garden,” ArtReview, June 11
Marcus Civil, “Courting Contradiction: A Conversation with Catalina Ouyang,” Sculpture Magazine, June 5
Grace Byron, “The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick,’” Document Journal, June 4
Sophia Giovannitti, “Catalina Ouyang,” Foundwork, March
2023
Summer Kim Lee,“Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang”, Momus, April 28
Ezrha Jean Black, “Artillery 2022 Top Ten,” Artillery, January 4
2022
Lauren Guilford, “Pick of the Week: Catalina Ouyang,” Artillery, November 17
Jane Ursula Harris, “Catalina Ouyang: Perilous Embodiment” Flash Art, Issue 338, March Stephanie Kang, “THREE BETRAYALS: Catalina Ouyang at No Place Gallery”, Runner Detroit, March 28
Jeff Regensburger,“Art Review: Three Betrayals at No Place Gallery”, Columbus Underground, February 8
2021
Simon Wu, “Catalina Ouyang Questions White Male Allyship," Frieze, October 8
Ana Tuazon, "Critics' Pick: Catalina Ouyang," Artforum, October
Harley Wong,“16 Rising Artists of the Asian Diaspora in the United States”, Artsy, May 19
Stephanie Mei Huang, “PAPA RAGAZZE! at Nicodim Upstairs,” Contemporary Art Review, January 21
2020
“Catalina Ouyang at Lyles & King,” Contemporary Art Writing Daily, December 2
Jillian Steinhauer, “4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now: Catalina Ouyang,” New York Times, November 11
Remy Holwick, “Catalina Ouyang: it has always been the perfect instrument,” OPC Digital, October 29
Ophelia Lai, “Give it a twist: Catalina Ouyang,” ArtAsiaPacific, September/October
Christopher Michno, “Materia Medica,” Artillery Magazine, September 8
Paul Laster, “3 Los Angeles Exhibitions Exploring the Nature of Things,” Art & Object, August 28
Lindsay Preston Zappas, “A group show at François Ghebaly looks at the humans’
relationships with nature,” KCRW, July 28
Gabriel Cohen, “Crisis as portal: Catalina Ouyang talks cosmic flesh, the concomitants of trauma & unravelling the myth safety & security in the aftermath,” AQNB, May 20
Scott Gutterman, “Outline: A Festival for All Seasons,” The Brooklyn Rail, April
Julia Kramer, “Death, As Seen by 8 Female Artists,” The Cut, March 10
Valerie Stepanova, “Knockdown Center | Outliner’s Multi-disciplinary Series, ” Flaunt, March 5
2019
Vickery, Morgan, “Make Room Gallery | Marrow,” Flaunt Magazine, December 17
Tilley, John Martin, “Word Trash,” Office Magazine, June 21
Graves, Cassidy Dawn, “Art This Week: Extinct Fish and Playable Simulations,” Bedford and Bowery, May 20
Interview with Brainard Carey for Yale Radio. Praxis Interview Magazine, February
2018
Pastò, Marialuisa, “Furies at Helena Anrather / New York,” Daily Lazy, December
Larkin, Daniel, “Best of 2018: Our Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows,” Hyperallergic, December 17
Scott, Andrea K, “Furies,” The New Yorker, December
“The 10 Best Booths at Art021,” Artsy, November 9
Interview with Brian Paul, LivingContent, October
Interview, Horst und Edeltraut, September
Abrar, Larayb, “Exhibition Review: blood in D minor, Catalina Ouyang,” Musee Magazine, July 12
“On Conclusion and Findings: A Conversation Between Yanyi and Catalina Ouyang,” VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, April 23
“Interview with Catalina Ouyang,” DE:FORMAL Gallery
“There Is No Threat: False Alarms, Obsolete Calendars and Other Allegorical Decoys,” Minus Plato, January 15
2017
Mary Sky, "The Anatomy of War: An Interview with Catalina Ouyang,” The Rib, December 19
Bechtold, Margaret Williamson, “Art in the Age of Instagram: Catalina Ouyang,” A Women’s Thing, November 22
Quinton, Jared, "Let Me Be an Object That Screams,” Artforum, September 24
Gray, Julia, "Snakes and Submission,” Office Magazine, July 15
Kunze, Maggie, "Nobody's Home at DEMO Project,” Sixty Inches from Center, May 25
2016
Cascone, Sarah, “14 Emerging Women Artists to Watch in 2017,” artnet news, December 21
Wu, Danielle, “Envisioning a World Where White Men Are Pedestals for Sculptures,” Hyperallergic, December 12
Arnold, Willis Ryder, “Artist Catalina Ouyang explores Chinese-American immigrant experience in new exhibit,” St. Lous Public Radio, December 1
Sayad, Helene, “The Work and Wardrobe of Artist Catalina Ouyang,” St. Louis Magazine, December
Lewis, Seth, “Make Your Mother,” All the Art STL, Summer
Smoker, Lucie, “Concept Focus: St. Louis Artists.” Art Focus OK Magazine, 29 April
Stumeier, Daniel, “Make Your Mother at G-CADD,” Daily Serving, April 28
Curry, Nicholas and Tucker Pierce, “Artist Insight: Catalina Ouyang,” Westminster Press, December 24