Sumer

Cindy Huang 黄馨贤

New Zealand

Cindy Huang is a prodigious maker of things. And though still early 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 draws 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 currently lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Recent exhibitions include: Twin Cultivation, Satellites, Auckland (2022); Cindy Huang, Te Atamira, Queenstown (2023); Tracing a gilded trail, Sumer, Auckland (2023); Offering, Hastings Art Gallery, Hastings (2024).