Katinka Huang (b. 1998, Shanghai, China) grew up between Shanghai and London, her practice shaped by the contradictions of two cultures. Her abrupt move to England and subsequent experiences at an all-girls school prompted her to explore the entanglement of identity and womanhood. Elements of the female form are deconstructed and juxtaposed to create subversive, satirical, and often absurd narratives around womanhood. 

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On the canvas, figures are stretched, fragmented, and undone, caught in states of dissociation where the self becomes fluid and unstable. Her paintings draw on the psychological in-between: the moment the mind detaches from its surroundings and enters a space of play, grief, and reinvention. Elements of self-portraiture collapse into imagined narratives, producing bodies that are simultaneously familiar and unrecognisable. By embracing ambiguity and instability, Katinka explores the impossibility of capturing identity without deforming it

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