Steph Huang 黃麗音 Taiwan, b. 1990

Steph Huang (b. 1990, Taiwan) received her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2021. Her work explores the intricate relationship between history, global economics and colonialism. Using a variety of manual techniques such as glass blowing and casting, as well as film and sound-based media, Huang transforms everyday spaces and objects, resulting in minimalist sculptures and poetically charged installations.

Huang’s multidisciplinary practice investigates mass production and commerce, transcultural and historical dimensions of the food industry, and the implications of such markets on our natural environment. She often chooses mediums with contradicting qualities to reflect concerns that she has observed in everyday life. Through re-arranging leftover materials with ready-made objects, Huang explores the surreal absurdity of the collective human behavior and its effect towards the labor force and economy under capitalism. Huang currently lives in London.

Huang was the recipient of the 2022 Taipei Art Awards, 2023 Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award, and the 2023-24 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include: “See, See, Sea” at Tate Britain, London, UK (July 2024); esea contemporary, Manchester, UK (October 2024); and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (March 2025).

Recent solo exhibitions: “There is Nothing Old Under the Sun” (Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Exhibition), Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (2024), “The Water that Bears the Boat”, E-WERK Freiburg, Germany (2024); “I will see you when the week ends”, Public Gallery, London, UK (2023); “A Great Increase In Business Is On Its Way”, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2022).