Elaine K. Ng makes artwork and writes to explore our relationships to place and how we locate ourselves. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and textiles, she often incorporates materials from the sites she investigates and indulges her love of fundamental material culture and ecology. Projects take shape organically around material investigation, archival research, extended observation, and interviews. A bilingual, first-generation American, she approaches her practice as an ongoing effort in translation and is especially interested in embodied knowledge and the unspoken information that creates context.

Elaine is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship 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 exhibitsinternationally 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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