| obioo Yijun Huang is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Nanning, China, and currently based in Houston, Texas. They received their BFA in Photography/Digital Media from the University of Houston, where their practice focuses on video and illustration. Drawing inspiration from personal and familial history, Huang's work attempts to find a piece of home, however fleeting, in foreign places by recreating temporal places that only exist in memories and nostalgia. Their work has been exhibited at the Blaffer Art Museum, the Texas Association of Schools of Art, and the Aurora Picture Show. Currently a resident at Project Row Houses, Huang is creating work that weaves together intergenerational stories built on unspoken traditions (almost) lost to time. |
| ostatemento Yijun Huang, also known as Res, is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Houston. With a foundation in traditional drawing at a Chinese-owned art school, Huang now works primarily with video and illustration. Huang's work centers on identity, diaspora, and the emotional aftermath of displacement as a third culture individual. Huang's work re-examines unresolved trauma disguised as nostalgia to process discomfort, memory, and longing and the emotional remnants of their third cultural upbringing. Their work creates visual spaces through digital memory, nostalgia, and the search for a sense of belonging, often drawing inspiration from the late '90s and early '00s digital spaces. Through their practice, Huang aims to record untold family histories and seemingly mundane practices rooted in cultural memory and the subconscious through fleeting moments and unconventional storytelling. |