Born San Francisco, California
Angie Eng is an intermedia artist and educator whose diverse works span socially engaged art, conceptual art, and time-based media. While her background is in abstract painting, in the 1990s she relocated from California to New York City to explore new frontiers in video sculpture, installation, and experimental live video. This early period of her career marked her emergence as a prominent figure in the downtown electronic arts scene. Experimentation with various mediums and showcasing them in alternative venues earned her a first solo exhibition at Artists Space, where she exhibited two installations exploring the AIDS epidemic and the dynamic relationship between physical and virtual presence. She was also among the pioneers of New Media/Web-based art, receiving commissions for innovative projects such as Empty Velocity and Buddha Hotel from New Radio and Performing Arts and The Alternative Museum.
Angie’s practice extends beyond a singular medium or genre, as she adapts her approach to best convey her ideas. As she focuses on experimental approaches outside of the commercial art world, she primarily funds her work through grants. Over the course of her career, she has received more than fifty grants, commissions, and residencies from prestigious foundations and organizations such as New Radio and Performing Arts, Harvestworks, Art in General, Eyebeam art and technology center, MacDowell Art Colony, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Alternative Museum, Experimental TV Center, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Boulder Arts Commission, and the California Arts Council.
Angie’s collaborative projects reflect her interdisciplinary ethos, as she has worked with composers, architects, dancers, theatre, new media, sound, and video artists. See list of collaborators.
With a career spanning over three decades in the field of art education, design, and implementation of art programming in human service organizations, Angie has demonstrated a commitment to social justice. Her pioneering work includes the establishment of numerous programs aimed at the upliftment and empowerment of marginalized communities. Notable examples of her work include stARTing, which provided contemplative art experiences to adults with developmental disabilities in Manhattan, Lifesigns, an AIDS awareness mural and theater initiative in Ethiopia, Eye2Eye, which empowered youth through media in the South Bronx, and Windup Media STEAM workshops for families and children in Paris. In Boulder, Colorado, during COVID-19, she organized Creative Catalyzers , which aimed to build bridges between sustainable companies, human service projects, artists, and tech companies. She believes in holistic pedagogy and is training in Deep Listening, a practice in creativity and community developed by composer, Pauline Oliveros, Ione a theatre director and psychologist and Heloise Gold a choreographer.
She holds a doctorate in Kosmorganic aesthetics, immersive spaces in art that enhances healing, spirituality and community. She also writes art criticism and has been as a European correspondent for the Fluxus zine, Artist Organized Art, further demonstrates her commitment to promoting critical dialogue between artists, art practice, and dissemination via public events.