Casting Identities
In keeping with this ongoing series of Asian Am. Portraits was first funded by Art Matters, NYC, Kuo presents an illusionary world of multi-faceted personalities with new idioms of refuge –that memorialize our expressive dreams and channel sensual, ritualistic expressions that free us free from stereotypes. ”Lets Move the Crowd” with invented spiritual, cultural, or mental icons of our Persona. It is a positive to combat the AAPI issues that affect us with expressive messages.
Nina Kuo creates artworks with fictional and historical references in an individual modern language. She works in painting, sculpture, multi-media, and montage and has been branching out in Photo installations, animated videos, and sculpture.
Nina Kuo
Chroma Lady , Optical shop, Mott St. NYC, Color digital print, 11 x14 inch, 2021
Chicago Chinatown Eternal Smile Boy, Color digital print (original hand colored), 1999 and altered after, 14 x 11 in
Mott St Boys, Color digital print - gelatin print (text added), 1996 - present, 8 x 10 in.
Punk Cut, digital print of gelatin print, 14 x 11 in, 1999
Velvet Slipper Boys, digital print of BW gelatin print/ cloth shoes, beads, 1996-1999, 14 x 11 in
Nina Kuo
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Contact me : more current sewn pc of art / montage dresses etc, Homage to Anti-racism : Tang dynasties, Munchu Pigtail etc , YURI, Vincent Chin . THANKS
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Nina Kuo creates paintings, photos, mural landscapes, and sculptures with multi-symbolic themes and calligraphic shapes while presenting scholarly images in a surreal manner for emotional appeal. These images provide metaphors for our global bourgeois society and its cultural ambiguity. This haven of image-making seduces and bridges many idioms. She has executed many Asian American figures to reveal a mythical destiny full of contradictions and surprises.
Kuo has exhibited work at New Museum, Newark Museum, Digital Art Fairs, Scope, LA County Museum, Clocktower Gallery, etc.
Collections: MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Lib. of Congress, Biblioteque Nationale. Etc.