Kang Ah Young
Kang Ah Young (b.1996, Seoul) is an emerging artist who graduated from Diploma in Fine Arts with distinction and is currently in her final year of BA(Hons) Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts. Even though her niche is in oil painting, she is beginning to expand her practice as a multimedia artist by further exploring other mediums such as mixed media and installations. Her practice revolves around her identity, growth, and recurring feelings of displacement as a non-local in Singapore. Through her deeply personal and engaging confrontations with identity crises and sense of displacement—themes that are prevalent in this day and age—she hopes her sentiments resonate with her audience and are able to provide a form of comfort.
Her artworks have been shown exhibitions such as ‘Project 3V - Visualise, Voice & Vision’, a Collaborative project between LASALLE College of the Arts and Sabanci University, at Fass Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey, and Earl Lu Gallery in SIngapore. She has also been awarded the Special Choice Award for the 41st Daegu International Grand Exhibition.