Amy Kao is a Taiwanese-American artist who currently works in Brooklyn, New York. Her background in continental philosophy lends her work the perceptual experience of nature and explores nature as markers of history and culture. Her art is known to be densely elaborate and composed of hybrid motifs, which are created by dissecting and overlapping fragments of vegetal and geometric forms.
Her work has been exhibited widely at institutions across the United States and in South Korea. Most recently, Kao completed a site-specific installation at Facebook, Inc. in New York, collaborated with designer Jil Sander on a full season collection, and created large-scale public-commissioned pieces at One Liberty Plaza, Brookfield Place, and the World Financial Center in New York.
She is a recipient of residency fellowships at Yaddo in New York, MacDowell in New Hampshire, Art Omi in New York, and the Lower East Side Printshop in New York.
Reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Art News.
At MacDowell, she continued work on a sculptural installation.
