Elaine K. Ng is curious about how knowledge forms, where it lives, and how it moves through cultures and over time. Her projects take shape organically around multi-faceted inquiries combining material investigation with archival research, interviews, and extended observation of sites and objects. She engages intimately with a variety of materials to learn their languages and map out different ways of understanding our relationships with the physical world around us. This interdisciplinary, process-based approach results in artworks spanning a wide range of media from cast concrete to plant-dyed textiles, photography, and video. They are quiet monuments to everyday relationships with the places we inhabit—material translations of unspoken and intangible knowledge.

Elaine is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright grant for research in Taiwan and has been a fellow at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library; a resident at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation, among others; and a Guest Artist at the Corning Museum of Glass. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has lectured and held visiting positions at NSCAD University, Tainan National University of the Arts, and the China Academy of Art. She holds a BA from the University of California, Davis, an MBA/MA from Southern Methodist University, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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