b. 1994 in Wisconsin, USA  

lives and works in Los Angeles, USA 

stephanie mei huang (pronouns: they/them)  completed their MFA in Art at the California Institute of the Arts (Santa Clarita, USA) in 2020, and they received their BA from Scripps College (Claremont, USA) in 2016.  

 

Fellowships and awards 

2021 

The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA 

 

2020 

Residency Contemporary Calgary Collider, Calgary, Canada 

Lightning Fund, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA 

Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, USA 

Relief Fund for L.A. County Visual Artists, J. Paul Getty Trust and California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, USA 

L.A. Young Creatives Grant, Mission Asset Fund, Los Angeles, USA 

 

2018-2020  

Lillian Disney Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA 

 

2019 

Residency Millay Colony, Austerlitz, USA 

Residency ACRE, Steuben, USA 

 

2016 

Payton Watkins Media Studies Award, Scripps College, Claremont, USA 

 

2015 

Hearst Foundation Thesis Research Fellowship, Scripps College, Claremont, USA 

Ruth George Poetry Prize, Scripps College, Claremont, USA 

Getty Marrow Multicultural Undergraduate Grant, Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, USA 

 

2011  

Certified Environmental Youth Ambassador, Chinese Ministry ofEnvironmental Protection, Los Angeles, USA 

 

Selected solo exhibitions 

2022 

how to hobble a young horse, PULPO Gallery, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany  

 

2021 

the foul lump in my throat, 4th Ward Project Space, Chicago, USA 

neither donkey nor horse, Office Space, Salt Lake City, USA 

(self portraits as) neither donkey nor horse, Hauser & Wirth Book and Printed Matter Lab, Los Angeles, USA 

 

2020 

the foul lump in my throat, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA 

 

2019 

self-armature, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA 

 

2018 

presence/absence V, Marfa Film Festival, Marfa, USA 

 

2017 

presence/absence IV, Marfa Live Arts, Marfa, USA 

 

2016 

presence/absence III, Marfa Live Arts, Marfa, USA 

 

Selected Group exhibitions 

2023 

Imagined Wests, The Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, USA 

Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, USA 

It's material world, PULPO Gallery, Munich, Germany

 

2022 

Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Canada 

Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA 

Everything is Common, Artists Space, New York, USA 

With her voice, penetrate earth’s floor, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA 

 

2021 

General Objects, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA 

 

2020 

Solitude, Arc Gallery, Chicago, USA 

Hindsight is 20/20, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, USA 

Art.Response.Now, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA 

Time is Out of Joint, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA 

ARCHIVE MACHINES, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 

Not Your Model Minority, Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, USA 

Over the Structures 2020, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum,Gimpo, South Korea  

SoCal MFA ’20, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, USA 

Reflections on Exile, Root Division, San Francisco, USA 

 

2019 

Heav’n Rescued Land, The Neon Heater, Findlay, USA 

Lie, Cheat, Steal, Kresge Gallery, Lyon College, Batesville, USA 

20/20, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA 

New Wight Biennial: Circadian Regions, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 

Artist Statement: Master of Fine Arts, The Great Park Gallery, Irvine, USA 

And then there is California, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, USA 

SoCal MFA ’19, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, USA 

 

2018 

this is it, is it not here, where it is, California Institute of the Arts,Valencia, USA 

 

2017 

Trois Femme, Pure Joy, Marfa, USA 

Made for Marfa, Marfa Studio of Arts, Marfa, USA 

 

Public Collections 

New Genres Library, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, USA 

Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, USA