· To Be The Germ Man
· GOOD MOURNING MY GRAND SUN
· TONGUE TIE
· YELLOW
· ADHERE
· BODY OF TEXT
· I BLUE IT
· PEACE OF CAKE
· SOEEPY
· TAG
· SOHLONG
· HOT WATERS
· 28 Days
About
Peyton Chiang is a Taiwanese American artist working primarily in sculpture, performance, and installation. His work currently explores the ways in which habitualized daily behaviors are shaped by cultural, commercial, and political infrastructures. His work has been exhibited at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, L’appartment49c, Sleepy Cyborg Gallery, and The Eldorado Ballroom.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @peychiang
CV
Education
Rutgers University
Master of Fine Arts in Design
Rice University
Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies
Exhibitions
· Everything But The Kitchen Sink, Rice University, Houston, TX
· Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition: empty playgrounds, sacred soup, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston TX
· ones and zeros, Sleepy Cyborg Galleries, Houston, TX
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Not The Wasp
2025
143 Drawings
Screen Print, Acrylic Paint, and Ink Jet Print on Card Stock, Binder Rings, Metal Rods
The Wasp was a weekly satirical magazine based in San Francisco that ran from 1876 to 1941. For the first eight years of circulation, all illustrations were created by George Frederick Keller.
Not The Wasp extracts all images that depict Asian immigrants in The Wasp from 1876 to 1882, the year the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. All Asian representations are rendered as blue surfaces, and any image where other caricatures appear is patterned over. Caricature, the technique utilized by Keller in his illustrations, aligns with Western practices of classification and taxonomy. In contrast, the processes of surfacing and patterning draw from Vivian L. Huang’s Surface Relation, in which the author examines how flatness and withholding, aesthetics of Asian American inscrutability, possess an oppositional capacity against neoliberal narratives of Asian assimilation and erasure.