Leah Huang

Biography

Leah Huang (b.1992, Wuhan, China) is a self taught artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She began developing her visual language in painting through the practice of analog photography, while working in fashion for international houses such as Maison Margiela and Helmut Lang, for over a decade. Her visual practices interweave a symbolic vocabulary with the power of chance. In exploring her relationship with watercolor and working on paper: she utilizes an intuitive approach which cultivates trust and resilience through material restraint. The paintings occupy the unconscious space between abstraction and figuration, suggesting contradictions and the unresolved zones of life. Leah’s work has been included in exhibitions across the tri-state area and is in private and corporate collections across the U.S. Recent exhibitions include: An Interpreted World Is Not A Home with Tempest Gallery, Annual Works on Paper Exhibition with Visionary Projects. Recent residencies include the summer residency program at Orein Arts, and Openings NY. In addition to her work as an artist, she has also co-curated two group exhibitions in 2024, culminating in Studio 9D in Chelsea and Living Skin in Brooklyn. In the last year, Leah has also begun leading a series of intuitive watercolor workshops “Gesture As Trust” at Tempest Gallery in Ridgewood.

Press

2024, Art Show | Studio 9D presents Propagation, Suspended Roots: Meditations on Grafting, Mourning & Embodiment, Li Tang

2024, 60 Seconds with Latasha Lamar: Inside Leah Huang’s Studio, 60 Seconds with Latasha Lamar: Inside Leah Huang’s Studio

2023, Artist Feature, Subo Art Magazine