Katinka Huang

Katinka Huang (b. 1998, Shanghai, China) is a painter currently based in NYC.

Katinka paints from memory, myth, and the restlessness of a self that never quite settles. Drawing on a childhood split between China and the UK, she builds an inner cast of characters who are always slightly at odds with each other. Her figures are torn between protagonist and antagonist, caught in an erratic internal dialogue, filtered through absurdity and dissonance until each scene turns charged, theatrical, and mythological.

At the core of her work is an obsessive depiction and reinvention of the self, shaped by an identity dysmorphia born of a multicultural upbringing. Each painting catches a different persona in an uncanny world, where identity and alter ego compete for the same body.

Katinka invites viewers into a space where memory and myth blur. Her approach to storytelling is theatrical and eerie: autobiography becomes performance, and performance becomes myth, echoing throughout her work.

Katinka Huang received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2023, and her BFA from Paris College of Art in 2020. Recent solo exhibitions include Dreamers vs Swimmers at Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife (2024), and The Apartment at LatchKey Gallery, New York (2023). She has participated in numerous art fairs, including ARCO Madrid, Untitled Art Fair, Art Jakarta, Volta Basel, and Estampa Madrid.