KAIXI YANG
Born 1998, Auckland, New Zealand
Lives & Works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2016 - 2020 Stanford University, BSc, Product Design
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)
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
EXHIBITIONS
2024 MORE LIFE: Making Sense on Earth Today: Solo Exhibition at ThirdSpace NYC
Curated by Monica Kraeger, New York, NY
Curated by Monica Kraeger, New York, NY
2024 Work In Progress NYC Show, BLOOM
Curated by Rishabh Aggarwal, New York, NY
Curated by Rishabh Aggarwal, New York, NY
2024 NYC Artistry Showcase
Curated by Elad Schor, New York, NY
Curated by Elad Schor, New York, NY
2024 Synthetic Spaces and Virtual intelligence at BronxArtSpace
Curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, New York, NY
Curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, New York, NY
2023 JAM01 at PersonaNYC
Self Initiated Performance, New York, NY
Self Initiated Performance, New York, NY
2022 PersonaNYC Opening Night
Curated by Nathalyn Nunoo, New York, NY
Curated by Nathalyn Nunoo, New York, NY
2022 AR HOUSE LA - AR Fashion Weekend
Curated by Lucas Rizzotto & Aidan Wolf, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Lucas Rizzotto & Aidan Wolf, Los Angeles, CA
2021 NiceGoblins Opening Night
Curated by Wei Low, Auckland, NZ
Curated by Wei Low, Auckland, NZ
2020 SyntheticZero: The Virtual Is (Always) Real at BronxArtSpace
Curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, New York, NY
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
Curated by Hannah Scott, Stanford, CA
2019 San Jose ICA Art + Science Group Show, ‘Symbiome’ bioluminescent artworks
Curated by Zoë Latzer, San Jose CA
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
Curated by Gail Wight, Kevin B Chen, Stanford, CA
2017 Tangled & Twisted Solo exhibition Feminist psychological body horror paintings
Self Initiated Exhibition, Stanford, CA
Self Initiated Exhibition, Stanford, CA
2017 InTransit, The 4th Annual Stanford Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Curated by Enrique Chagoya, Stanford, CA
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
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
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
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
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
Featured Speaker: Qipao Digital Couture Design
Participant in Sustainable Fashion Runway
Auckland Council Rangitahi Environmental Action Leadership Doughnut Economics Workshop
Dec 2024, Auckland House
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
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.
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.
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/
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/