Artist Name: Cato Ouyang
Residency Dates: April – June 2025
Born: 1977
Hometown: Chicago IL
Lives & Works: Brooklyn, NY
URL: catalinaouyang.com | Instagram @kittytuna
Gallery: Lyles & King and Night Gallery
Education:
2019 – MFA Yale University
Bio/Statement:
Cato Ouyang is one of the selected artists for the 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.
Cato Ouyang is a New York-based artist whose work engages sculpture, installation, and conceptual approaches to materiality. Ouyang has held solo exhibitions at Night Gallery (Los Angeles), No Place Gallery (Columbus, OH), Lyles & King (New York), the Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), and Make Room (Los Angeles). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at the Cantor Arts Center (Stanford, CA), the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D (Portland, ME), the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Capsule (Venice), James Fuentes Gallery (New York), Jeffrey Deitch (New York and Los Angeles), and more.
Their work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Flash Art, Momus, Sculpture Magazine, Document Journal, Art Review, and Frieze. Their work is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, High Museum (Atlanta, GA), Pérez Art Museum Miami, Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, TX), Columbus Museum of Art, Kadist Foundation (San Francisco), Faurschou Foundation (Copenhagen), Pond Society (Shanghai), and X Museum (Beijing). Ouyang holds an MFA from Yale University and is represented by Lyles & King (New York) and Night Gallery (Los Angeles).
The 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
