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),
Selection of Awards
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 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
2023 Homework MX
2022 Moos Solarpunk Residency
2022 Laguna MX
2022 AR HOUSE LA - Fashion Cohort
2019 Alexa Meade Apprenticeship
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
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
https://g4c2022.sched.com/event/15n4F
July 16 2022
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 Circleshttps://joininteract.com/
February 26, 2021 - April 23, 2021
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
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
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