Bio

Kanny is an artist born in Hong Kong, living on the tropical island of Bali, Indonesia.

She cultivated an interest in mapping layers of quantitative and qualitative data into emotive visualizations during her time at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, where she graduated with a BFA in Communication Design.

Through painting, Kanny channels her experiences in the natural world and from introspection. She started painting detailed oil landscapes and skyscapes, first showing her work in Australia in 2019. Since, like learning different instruments to make different sounds, Kanny dove into experimental techniques, on a journey to translate the spectrum of sensations. Immersing in the alchemy of cathartic repetition, her duo show Wild things (2022) embraces the raw emotions conjured during heartbreak that echo the spiraling ecological rupture. Recurring walks to the waterfall transmute into fields of delicate ink-brush strokes illuminating dark undercurrents. Emerging in her solo show Woo (2022) is a re-connection to the celestial sphere—glowing orbs, spinning spirits and bewitching blooms culminate in a supernatural landscape highlighted with iridescent shimmer.

Embracing the Biophilia Hypothesis during a remote residency in Iceland (NES Artist Residency, 2023), Kanny expanded to a field-based practice rooted in ecological approaches influenced by traditional technologies. Material experiments evolve into installations of biodegradable sculptures that are returned to their source—the Ocean. Hopping off the concrete path, Kanny is currently embarking on residencies around the world, setting her nomadic studio in-touch with diverse cultures and natural environments as she collects and processes pigments from the wild to ground painting back down to Earth.

Kanny continues to traverse the boundaries between chance and control, turbulence and harmony, the ethereal and uncanny.

Education

2014 BFA Communication Design, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA

Residency / Nomadic Studio

2024 Moosey Artist Residency, Norwich, UK
2023 NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2021-2022 永樂街 Studio, Hong Kong
2019-2020 Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne, Australia

Exhibition

2024
The Bliss of Solitude, Front Four Gallery, Stowe, VT, USA (group)

2022
Woo, Odds and Ends, Hong Kong (solo)
野生嘢 Wild Things, Parallel Space, Hong Kong (duo)
Nowhere Land, Parallel Space, Hong Kong (group)

2021
Newness, Gallery HZ, Hong Kong (group)

2020
Unnatural Histories IX, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR, USA (group)
Locals, Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)

Commission Work

2024 Cloudscape 1-8, Luminara, The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection (Netherlands/USA)

Publication

2022 Woo (Handwritten & Handbound Artist Book, Edition of 50), Zine Collection, Asia Art Archive

2012 Dyslexic Notation: Combining Aesthetics and Scientific Notation To Combat Dyslexia (co-designed with Gerald Morin), Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Volume IV, Issue 3