Huey-Min Chuang: You Are Welcome Too

Huey-Min Chuang: You Are Welcome Too
July 19 – August 24
Art Crawl Harlem | Colonels Row House 403, Governors Island, NYC

🖼️ You Are Welcome Too – Solo Exhibition by Huey-Min Chuang
📍 403 Colonels Row, Governors Island in NYC (ArtCrawl Harlem)
🗓️ Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19th, 12–5 PM
⏰ Artist Talk at 2:30 PM with Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung of Art21
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: July 19 – August 24, 2025
🚢 Ferry Info: From 10 South Street, Manhattan, every 30 minutes (free before noon on weekends)

You Are Welcome Too is a tender and immersive solo exhibition by self-taught artist Huey-Min Chuang, who began her creative journey in her late 40s during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring over twenty works on paper alongside mixed media canvases and collages, the exhibition constructs a layered visual world grounded in memory, care, belonging, and the quiet power of storytelling.

Chuang’s drawings—rendered in ink, colored pencil, marker, and soft washes—offer intimate glimpses into inner landscapes where the fantastical and the familiar coexist. In these dreamlike compositions, everyday objects float in open space, bodies dissolve and reassemble, and symbolic elements—tables, hands, trees, flora, and fauna—form constellations of meaning. Gentle palettes of rose, ochre, jade, and sky-blue hues guide viewers through moments of reflection, vulnerability, and emotional resonance.

Complementing these drawings are a collection of mixed media canvases and collages that extend Chuang’s practice into more tactile, expressive terrain. These works incorporate layered fabrics, repurposed materials, thread, paper fragments, and paint—evoking the textures of memory, home, and healing. Some canvases vibrate with bold marks and saturated pigments, while others are more subdued, inviting close looking and quiet contemplation. The collages build upon the visual language of the drawings, introducing depth and dimensionality that suggest the layering of time, identity, and cultural memory.

Born in Taiwan, raised in Argentina, and now based in Brooklyn, NY, Chuang brings a profoundly personal, cross-cultural sensibility to her work. These geographies appear not as literal landscapes, but as emotional textures and symbolic forms—reflections of her lived experience navigating languages, borders, and belonging. Her art offers a space for viewers to feel both seen and gently held.

Installed in the intimate domestic rooms of House 403 on Governors Island’s historic Colonels Row, the exhibition creates an environment of hospitality. More than a space to view art, You Are Welcome Too invites sitting, lingering, and wandering—into memory, possibility, and transformation.

You Are Welcome Too is not just an exhibition—it is an open door. A visual language of care and connection. A quiet invitation to remember gently, to dream boldly, and to walk together into what is possible.

Bio
Huey-Min Chuang lives and works in New York. Her artworks have been exhibited at the Voelker Orth Museum (solo show), the Governor’s Island Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC) Gallery (solo show), and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art’s International Biennial, where she received an Honorable Mention. She won First Place Jury Prize in the “Double Take Show” at the Trolley Barn Gallery and has participated in group shows with organizations such as the Watercolor Society of Rhode Island, Imago Foundation for the Arts, 6th Louisiana Biennial Show, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Puffin Cultural Forum, QCC Gallery, Long Island City Artists, Culture Lab LIC, Artsy.net, and the Drawing Rooms, among many others.

She has been featured in Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, Radio Taiwan International, World News Journal, and The Epoch Times in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New York. Her profile is included in the artist registry at White Columns Gallery, and she has held two artist residencies with TAAC. As an “Artist in Action” at the Smithsonian-affiliated Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, she shared her process with public audiences.

In addition to her art practice, she serves as a docent at the Brooklyn Museum, and she co-founded the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls—a dual charter school offering free education to 500 young girls in the South Bronx, which was featured in the 2017 Oscar finalist documentary movie “Joe’s Violin.” She also contributes to economic development projects in New York State, always aiming to build a more creative and resilient world.

Website: www.HMC88.com
Instagram: @hueyminchuang
Email: hmc88art@gmail.com