KAIXI YANG

Born 1998, Auckland, New Zealand
Lives & Works in New York, NY


EDUCATION

        2016 - 2020 Stanford University, BSc, Product Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

        Independent Artist, KAIXI YANG ART (2014 - Present)
        Co-founder, ENTITY design studio (Apr 2021 - Present) https://www.entitydesign.studio/
        Creative Designer, unspun (2020 – 2021) https://www.unspun.io/
        Sustainable System Designer, VERTIVER (2019) https://vertiver.com/
        User Researcher & Industrial Designer, Advanced Ventilation Applications, (2018) 
        Packaging Designer, StretchSense (2017)
        Prototyper & User Researcher, oDocs Eye Care (2015)


EXHIBITIONS
        2024  MORE LIFE: Making Sense on Earth Today: Solo Exhibition at ThirdSpace NYC
                  Curated by Monica Kraeger, New York, NY
        2024  Work In Progress NYC Show, BLOOM
                  Curated by Rishabh Aggarwal, New York, NY
        2024  NYC Artistry Showcase
                  Curated by Elad Schor, New York, NY
        2024  Synthetic Spaces and Virtual intelligence at BronxArtSpace
                  Curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, New York, NY
        2023  JAM01 at PersonaNYC
                  Self Initiated Performance, New York, NY
        2022  PersonaNYC Opening Night
                  Curated by Nathalyn Nunoo, New York, NY
        2022  AR HOUSE LA - AR Fashion Weekend
                  Curated by Lucas Rizzotto & Aidan Wolf, Los Angeles, CA
        2021  NiceGoblins Opening Night
                  Curated by Wei Low, Auckland, NZ
        2020  SyntheticZero: The Virtual Is (Always) Real at BronxArtSpace
                  Curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, New York, NY
        2020  CCRMA NEW DIMENSIONALITY Festival, showing ‘Cross Dimensional View of the Universe’ procedural code art
                  Curated by Hannah Scott, Stanford, CA
        2019  San Jose ICA Art + Science Group Show, ‘Symbiome’ bioluminescent artworks
                  Curated by Zoë Latzer, San Jose CA
        2018  Presence, The 5th Annual Stanford Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
                  Curated by Gail Wight, Kevin B Chen, Stanford, CA
        2017  Tangled & Twisted Solo exhibition Feminist psychological body horror paintings
                  Self Initiated Exhibition, Stanford, CA
        2017  InTransit, The 4th Annual Stanford Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
                  Curated by Enrique Chagoya, Stanford, CA
        2015  Biolumination public exhibition, Auckland Art Festival Artist
                  Curated by Siouxsie Wiles, Auckland, NZ



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


FELLOWSHIPS


        2021 - WEF Global Shapers
        2019 - Interact Fellowship
        2016  Apple Inc. Women in Science and Engineering Mentorship


GRANTS

       2021 - 10K Awarded by Climate Reality Project, & the World Economic Forum for A Regenerative Framework for Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland City


AWARDS

        2025  Land Art Generator Initiative, Marou Village, Fiji - Finalist, Large Scale Renewable Energy Sculpture
        2023  O1-B Alien of Extraordinary Ability Visa to the United States of America

        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
       2015  Auckland Art Gallery Pat Hanly Art Student Award Nominee
       2015  AUT Original Art Sale Art Competition 1st place winner
       2015  New Zealand Secondary School Art Competition 1st place Grand Prize, out of 1200 applicants

PRESS

       Lovers Magazine: Creative empowerment, healing through indulgence and the beauty of artistic flow
       Storyo - Creative empowerment, healing through indulgence and the beauty of artistic flow
       Strolling Podcast: Kaixi Yang, Artist of All Mediums
       Compose Yourself Magazine Podcast
       SinTheta Magazine
       BlueOcean: Kaixi Yang - Artistic Leadership in Life, Career and Society
       Stanford Women In Design: Illuminating Design

LECTURES / MASTER CLASSES / CONFERENCES

United Nations Association Global Engagement Summit: Sustainable Fashion Showcase

Feb 2024, United Nations Headquarters, NYC
Pushing Forward For People & Planet
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.


Degrowth, Doughnut Economics & Praxis

April 2025, Parsons School of Design, NYC
An adaptation and extension of the Auckland Council Doughnut Economics 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.


TALKING ANIMALS Community Gatherings 

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.
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
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
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
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.



AS MENTOR

MIT Reality Hack 2023 https://www.mitrealityhack.com/
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