NINA KUO

Active since 1975, Nina Kuo is a Chinese-American multimedia artist based in New York. Through her playful paintings, where she places women in traditional Chinese costumes doing modern-day activities in traditional Chinese landscape settings, she examines the role of women, feminism, and identity in Asian-American art. She collaborates with her husband, Lorin Roser, an architect and artist; together they produce multimedia works just for fun and have been prolific artists since the 90s.

She is a recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Light Work Artist Residency, New York Foundation for the Arts Catalogue Grant, an Artist travel grant (to China), and a New York State Craft Alliance Grant. Her work can be found in many public collection including the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Brooklyn Museum of Art in Brooklyn, NY; Franklin Furnace Archives at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, NY; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. Kuo participated in the Center’s residency program in July 1999.