Selection of Professional Experience
Independent Artist, KAIXI YANG ART (2014 - Present)
CEO & Co-founder, ENTITY design studio (Apr 2021 - Present) https://www.entitydesign.studio/
Global Shaper, World Economic Forum (Dec 2020 - Aug 2023) https://www.weforum.org/
Creative Designer, unspun (Jul 2020 – Jan 2021) https://www.unspun.io/
Sustainable System Designer, VERTIVER (Jul 2019 - Sep 2019) https://vertiver.com/
User Researcher & Industrial Designer, Advanced Ventilation Applications, (Jul 2018 - Sep 2018)
Grants
10K Awarded by Climate Reality Project, & the World Economic Forum for A Regenerative Framework for Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland City https://www.climaterealityproject.org/
Awards
2023 O1-B Alien of Extraordinary Ability Visa to the United States of America
2016 Stanford BASES Prodathon Internet of Things, Entrepreneurial Case Competition, 1st place winner.
2016 Cambridge International Examinations
- Top in the World for Art & Design: Painting
- Top in New Zealand for Art & Design: Graphic Design
- Top in New Zealand, Sociology
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1602/S00062/a-hat-trick-of-top-in-the-world-results-for-acg. htm
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1602/S00062/a-hat-trick-of-top-in-the-world-results-for-acg. htm
2015 Auckland Art Gallery Pat Hanly Art Student Award Nominee https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/page/pat-hanly-creativity-awards?q=%2Fpage%2Fpat-hanly-creativity-awards
2015 AUT Original Art Sale Art Competition 1st place winner https://anujanadkarni.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/aut-art-sale-celebrates-8th-year/
2015 New Zealand Secondary School Art Competition 1st place Grand Prize, out of 1200 applicants
2015 Most Promising Artist Award, ACG Senior College
Residencies
2025 GROW Externship x The Sludge Hub: Abandoned Mine Land Restoration Cohort, West Virginia
2024 Prime Produce Apprenticeship Cooperative: Pre-Membership
2024 NEW INC, New Museum Cultural Incubator, Social Architecture Track, NYC
2023 Homework MX
2022 Moos Solarpunk Residency, Berlin
2022 Laguna MX
2022 AR HOUSE LA - Fashion Cohort
2019 Alexa Meade Apprenticeship, Los Angeles
2017 Siouxsie Wiles University of Auckland, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Bioluminescent Art Residency and Graduate Level Microbiology Training.
2015 Siouxsie Wiles - Biolumination II for White Night - Auckland Arts Festival 2015
Exhibitions
2024 MORE LIFE: Making Sense on Earth Today: Solo Exhibition at ThirdSpace NYC
2024 Work In Progress NYC Show, BLOOM
2024 NYC Artistry Showcase
2024 Synthetic Spaces and Virtual intelligence at BronxArtSpace
2023 JAM01 at PersonaNYC
2022 PersonaNYC Opening Night
2022 AR HOUSE LA - AR Fashion Weekend
2021 NiceGoblins Opening Night
2020 SyntheticZero: The Virtual Is (Always) Real at BronxArtSpace
2020 CCRMA NEW DIMENSIONALITY Festival, showing ‘Cross Dimensional View of the Universe’ procedural code art
2019 San Jose ICA Art + Science Group Show, ‘Symbiome’ bioluminescent artworks
2018 Presence, The 5th Annual Stanford Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Curator: Gail Wight, Kevin B Chen
2017 Tangled & Twisted Solo exhibition Feminist psychological body horror paintings
2017 InTransit, The 4th Annual Stanford Undergraduate Juried Exhibition | Curator: Enrique Chagoya
2015 Biolumination public exhibition, Auckland Art Festival Artist
Selection of Personal Press
Lovers Magazine: Creative empowerment, healing through indulgence and the beauty of artistic flow https://www.loversmagazine.com/interviews/kaixi-yang
Storyo https://www.storyo.co.nz/stories/kaixi-yang
Strolling Podcast: Kaixi Yang, Artist of All Mediums https://strolling.rosano.ca/tag/kaixi-yang/
Compose Yourself Magazine Podcast https://composeyourselfmagazine.com/2023/01/dancing-on-the-edge-of-reason-and-be auty-with-kaixi-yang-podcast-interview/
SinTheta Magazine https://sinetheta.net/20.html
BlueOcean: Kaixi Yang - Artistic Leadership in Life, Career and Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfXZrXyIOsk
Stanford Women In Design: Illuminating Design https://stanfordwomenindesign.medium.com/illuminating-design-as-an-entrepreneur-an d-artist-7c549b70a324
Selection of Lectures / Master Classes / Conferences
United Nations Association Global Engagement Summit: Sustainable Fashion Showcase
Feb 2024, United Nations Headquarters, NYC
Feb 2024, United Nations Headquarters, NYC
Pushing Forward For People & Planet
Featured Speaker: Qipao Digital Couture Design
Participant in Sustainable Fashion Runway
Featured Speaker: Qipao Digital Couture Design
Participant in Sustainable Fashion Runway
Auckland Council Rangitahi Environmental Action Leadership Doughnut Economics Workshop
Dec 2024, Auckland House
The REAL Doughnut Economics Workshop engaged 18 youth climate leaders to learn about Doughnut Economics, paired with Indigenous Guiding Principles, culminating in an interactive worksheet called the Regenerative Intervention Framework, intended to help plan effective and equitable climate action projects.
April 2025, Parsons School of Design, NYC
April 2025, Parsons School of Design, NYC
An adaptation and extension of the Auckland Council DE Workshop, with guest lecturers Snow Schwartz and Isabella Li Kostrzewa (@isaboko_) for undergraduate design students' first-year course.
‘The Future of Susaki’ Design Thinking Workshop
July 2024, Susaki, Japan
Engaging citizens as ‘users’ in the design thinking methodology to generate solutions from local citizens' perspectives. Participants included farmers, fishermen, government workers, knife and bamboo artisans, & immigrants, as well as the City Mayor. Local flyer and TV marketing campaign attracted 60 participants, age ranging from 0 - 80.
July 2024, Susaki, Japan
Engaging citizens as ‘users’ in the design thinking methodology to generate solutions from local citizens' perspectives. Participants included farmers, fishermen, government workers, knife and bamboo artisans, & immigrants, as well as the City Mayor. Local flyer and TV marketing campaign attracted 60 participants, age ranging from 0 - 80.
TALKING ANIMALS Community Gatherings
2023 - Present, NYC
2023 - Present, NYC
TALKING ANIMALS is a container for climate collusion and radical reimagination, holding space for people with true commitment towards climate; for people who care about real shit to connect and build. You’re invited into collaboration with us as we manifest this space.
- Climate Project Slideshow Party
Got a climate side project sitting quiet, gathering dust? A nights and weekends project that needs a safe space to soft launch or get feedback? Perhaps you’re looking for a cofounder or accountability buddies?
Well come by our third TALKING ANIMALS gathering, this time focussed on creativity from the community!
We’re opening quick submissions for 12 people to present for 2 - 3 minutes each and take 2 minutes of Q&A.
Got a climate side project sitting quiet, gathering dust? A nights and weekends project that needs a safe space to soft launch or get feedback? Perhaps you’re looking for a cofounder or accountability buddies?
Well come by our third TALKING ANIMALS gathering, this time focussed on creativity from the community!
We’re opening quick submissions for 12 people to present for 2 - 3 minutes each and take 2 minutes of Q&A.
- How to Grow a Climate Movement with Chilli.App
* An intro to Chilli Club: Meet the team behind the world’s first social network for climate action
* Presenting Kaixi and Dion's Direct Action
* An intro to Chilli Club: Meet the team behind the world’s first social network for climate action
* Presenting Kaixi and Dion's Direct Action
- Degrowth, Fossil Fuel Abolition, & Geo-Engineering
* An Overview of Degrowth with Kweku Oats
* The History of Geoengineering, Multimedia Collage & Fossil Fuel Abolition with Andres Chang
* Crashing the Climate Crimes Convention with Teddy Ogborn
* An Overview of Degrowth with Kweku Oats
* The History of Geoengineering, Multimedia Collage & Fossil Fuel Abolition with Andres Chang
* Crashing the Climate Crimes Convention with Teddy Ogborn
The Future of Consciousness: Ethics in Neuro-Tech, Interactive Brain Augmentation, & the Hive Mind at the Games for Change Conference
https://g4c2022.sched.com/event/15n4F
July 16 2022, Virtual
https://g4c2022.sched.com/event/15n4F
July 16 2022, Virtual
Description: Join us in a discourse around advancements of neurotech, with the goal of defining a set of design principles towards an ethical, safe, and inclusive transition towards singularity. As more applications and technologies are developed to read our brain signals and stimulate our experience, we step into another world of widened possibilities. We will be discussing the emotional/psychological issues of reality & perception, the power of the medium as far as it distributes capital & governance, privacy & data rights issues, as well as the transhumanist, evolutionary and philosophical implications of the medium.
Art as Climate Intervention, Interact Fellowship Circles
https://joininteract.com/
February 26, 2021 - April 23, 2021, Virtual
Art as Climate Intervention is an 8-week course I organised focused on using art as a means to express feelings about climate change. The program offered a container for mentorship to help participants develop their skills and culminated in a symposium/conference to showcase their work to a wider audience.
"Brave New World" Campaign Launch
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artx-brave-new-world-campaign-launch-tickets-58598157667?fbc lid=IwAR081ox_iqrPCW58aTQzPqOGohC6yrU-7VxJYQHyf22VboOr0LJzdXJJgR0
March 16, 2019, d.school, Stanford University
Brave New World is a satirical pharmaceutical advertising campaign created by Kaixi Yang, which uses vintage found images and graphic aesthetics to depict our contemporary use of social media as drugs. The project aims to raise awareness about the negative impact of social media addiction on human experiences and will be launched through guerilla interventions in San Francisco and a speaker event at Stanford University.
March 16, 2019, d.school, Stanford University
Brave New World is a satirical pharmaceutical advertising campaign created by Kaixi Yang, which uses vintage found images and graphic aesthetics to depict our contemporary use of social media as drugs. The project aims to raise awareness about the negative impact of social media addiction on human experiences and will be launched through guerilla interventions in San Francisco and a speaker event at Stanford University.
Served as Judge or Mentor of Professional Competition
MIT Reality Hack 2023 https://www.mitrealityhack.com/
Lead for Sustainability Oxford https://www.energy.ox.ac.uk/news_items/lead-for-sustainability-oxford/
Education
Stanford University, BSc, Product Design 2016 - 2020
Apple Inc., Apple Women in Science and Engineering Mentorship 2016 - 2017