Jennifer Chen-su Huang is an artist and writer whose process-driven works interweave elements of craft tradition, language, history, and memoir. She is a 2021 Luminarts Fellow and an artist-in-residence at Chicago Artists Coalition's HATCH program. In 2017-2018, Jennifer completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Taiwan, where she was a Research Fellow with the Ethnology Department at National Chengchi University, as well as a Visiting Artist at Tainan National University of the Arts. She graduated with her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Huang has exhibited internationally at Haiton Art Center in Taipei and across the United States at Untitled Prints and Editions in Los Angeles, Kearny St. Workshop in San Francisco, and Gallery 400 in Chicago, among others. She is currently an editor for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles to be published in 2023 and a graduate student at New York University, where she is examining textile traditions through the lens of Performance Studies.

Why PS @ NYU?

As an artist with a background in cultural anthropology, I am interested in the performance of everyday life and how that manifests in textile traditions. My hope is to further the scholarship on Asian and Asian diasporic cultural production and to envision ways minoritarian subjects can reclaim and reevaluate their worlds through the metaphor and making of textiles. I chose Performance Studies at NYU because of the people: the faculty, staff, and interdisciplinary students the department attracts. I'm excited to combine my many interests in Anti-colonialities, Asian/Asian American Studies, Black Studies, and Queer/Feminist Theory, to explore avenues for experimental ethnography and performative writing.