Hue is an interdisciplinary artist born to the karst mountains and slithering rivers of Guilin, China before immigrating to Las Vegas, NV, where they currently live and work. Their work combines fashion, performance, and sculpture to explore themes of transnational identity, migration systems, and tourist imaginaries, and its effects on the land, the sky, and people.
They graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Fashion Design and has worked at fashion brands like Thom Browne, Werkstatt NYC, and Savage x FENTY. They are a recipient of grants from the Nevada Arts Council. Hue has exhibited at the Majorie Barrick Museum of Art, Springs Preserve, Holland Project, and the International Car Forest of the Last Church. Hue has given artist talks at the Western Folklife Society and Meow Wolf. Through their social practice project, the cloud house, Hue has collaborated with community members in Las Vegas to put on DIY music shows, art activations, and connect neighbors to mutual aid resources. In the past, Hue was part of the scrambled eggs artist collective based in Las Vegas, as well as being a founding member of TWYN: Take What You Need that redistributed free art supplies across the Vegas valley.
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Education
Parsons School of Design, New York
Central Saint Martins, London
Contact
welcomehomehue at gmail dot com
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Hue is a multidisciplinary artist from the Asian diaspora whose work imagines radically delicious queer and immigrant futures. They criss-cross between the worlds of fashion, Sky Art, video installation, performance, and sculpture to critically examine Asian American political identity, migration, and tourist imaginaries as it continually shapes relational placemaking and the more than human world. They have explored these themes through projects like the cloud house, a suburban house in the peripheries of the Las Vegas Strip, which is a free community art space painted as a monument to the sky. They have also utilize kites as the vehicle for political art and video work that explore the space silence creates when one loses their native language. Currently they are building upon a fashion altar-ego and collection of extravagant garments that delve into the personal history of garments worn by uniformed casino workers.