Leah (Yi) Huang (b. 1992. Wuhan, China) is a self taught artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Huang’s work highlights the superpowers of the outsider, in a space between desire and fear.

Compelled to use image-making as a means for storytelling, Huang leverages her shapeshifting perspectives between cultures and the clamors of womanhood, to do so through an intuitive, process driven approach that is often non-representational. The images are often deeply personal, but the stories are always open ended.

Huang made her way to painting through film photography. But now, the paintings take center stage, while the photographic practice is still an auxiliary part of her oeuvre. The paintings on paper are made without using sketches or drafts, confronting the irreversible but surprising nature of the medium which asks for one’s total presence and trust of the process. Analog photography presents a similar challenge, in which some “accidents” then become a symbolic anchor for Huang to react toward. In both mediums, various overlaying of shapes, colors, and framing devices reappear as they lead the viewer into questioning the perspective of both the observer and the participant: ultimately illuminating that our desires and fears are one and the same.