Bio
Nina Kuo (Chinese : 郭麗娜) is a Chinese American painter, photographer, sculptor, author, video artist and activist who lives and works in New York City. Her work examines the role of women, feminism and identity in Asian-American art.Kuo has worked in partnership with the artist Lorin Roser.Kuo grew up in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of abstract painter James K.Y. Kuo. She received a bachelor of science degree from SUNY Buffalo where she attended workshops by Judy Chicago and showed work with Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman.fter moving to New York City, Kuo became part of the CETA-funded Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project. She worked in activist art communities such as Basement Workshop and as the first resident artist at the Asian American Arts Centre building registries through interviews and curation. Kuo was part of the Godzilla Asian American Arts Network.She went to China and met her grandmother who she photographed and referenced in later works. She exhibited at the Clocktower MOMA PS1 in a show against racial prejudice, and her mural Politeness in Poverty of 1988 was installed in the Broadway Lafayette subway station in New York City.She was included by Marcia Tucker in the Bad Girls (art exhibition) at The New Museum in 1994. Her photo work was included by Lucy Lippard in The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society following a residency at Museum of Chinese in America In 1999 Kuo exhibited her Chi Pao (Chinese Banner Dresses) at the Center for Photography at Woodstock addressed gender stereotypes prevalent in Chinatown.
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EXHIBITS
2006 “Between Two Worlds”, Town Hall, Flushing NY
2005 “Psionic Distortions” Plum Blossom Gallery, NYC- Video anime with Lorin Roser
2003 “Brush with Tradition” Newark Museum, NJ
2002 American Wing, “American Identities” The Brooklyn Museum, NYC
2001 “Canal St. Banner Project”, Art in General, NYC
1998 Manchu Pigtail and Mythical Muses” (solo exhibit) China 2000 Fine Arts, NYC
1996 Mus. of Chinese in the Americas, “Sites of Chinatown”
1994 "Bad Girls," New Museum, NYC (curated by Marcia Tucker)
1993 "Curio Shop," Artist Space, NYC (catalog)
1992-3 Chinatown History Museum, NYC (two person show)
1992 “ Different Communities/Common Interests”- Art in The Anchorage,
1991 "Visual Narratives," Wunsch Art Center, Glen Cove, NY (curated by Thelma Golden)
1984 "Personal I.D.," P.S.1 , Long Island City, NYC, (curated by Lucy Lippard)
1984 "Winter Reveries," Art Gallery, Los Angeles County Art Museum, CA
1984 "Color in the Summer," The Brooklyn Museum, NYC
GRANTS
2002 US-Japan Travel Grant
1993 Arts Int’l -grant to China
1994, 1990 Special Arts Services Artist Grant, NY SCA
NOTED
2003 May 14 The New York Times – (NJ edition)
2002 April 26 The New York Times “Lehman College Show” by Holland Cotter
2001 March 23 The New York Times “Arts of Asia, Armory Show” by Holland Cotter
1996 November 20 The New York Times, NYC
1994 September Art Paper Atlanta, GA
1991 January 27 The New York Times, review (Long Island Edition)
1988 October 25 Village Voice, NYC