Catalina Ouyang

Catalina Ouyang is an American sculptor and installation artist who lives and works in New York City.

Career
Ouyang's sculptures are often grotesque and semi-anthropomorphic, often incorporating atypical materials from horse tibias and cigarette butts to a replica of a trench toilet in its entirety. The disparate objects explore trauma, memory, and the corporeal.

In addition to sculpture Ouyang works with digital media, making films and utilizing a digital avatar she refers to as Kitty Tuna.

Ouyang has cited Anne Carson, Michelangelo, Rodin, Brâncuşi, and Louise Bourgeois as inspirations for her work.

Notable exhibitions
Ouyang had a solo exhibition, organized by Alexis Wilkinson, at the Knockdown Center in New York in 2020. This included recent sculptures by Ouyang as well as videos that were screen recorded as a list of friends and strangers responded to an email from Ouyang which presented a legal document.

In 2021 Ouyang had a solo exhibition titled The Siren at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT.

SculptureCenter included Ouyang in its 2021 iteration of the annual InPractice exhibition, You may go, but this will bring you back curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds.

Awards and residencies
Ouyang was the Smack Mellon Artist in Residence in Brooklyn, NY from 2020-2021. She has also received residencies at the NARS Foundation Residency & Fellow in Brooklyn in 2015, OBRAS Foundation in Evora Monte, Portugal in 2016, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL in 2016, North Mountain, Shanghai, West Virginia in 2017, Mary Sky in Hancock, Vermont in 2017, Shandaken: Storm King, New Windsor, NY in 2019, the Vermont Studio Center in 2022, Shandaken: Storm King, New Windsor, NY in 2019

Ouyang has received awards such as the CURA Prize in 2015, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition FOCUS selected artist honorarium in 2016, the Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2020, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award in 2019, the Puffin Foundation Grant in 2019, the Real Art Award from Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT in 2019.

Public collections
Ouyang has three sculptures in the Nasher Sculpture Center collection.