Born San Francisco, California
Angie Eng is an intermedia artist, educator, cultural organizer and wellness coach. Her creative works span socially engaged art, conceptual art, and time-based media. Although she started as a neo-expressionist painter, 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 with her collaborative group The Poool. She was also among New Media/Web-based art pioneers, receiving commissions for innovative projects such as Empty Velocity and Buddha Hotel from New Radio and Performing Arts and The Alternative Museum.
Angie’s collaborative projects reflect her interdisciplinary ethos, as she collaborates with musicians, architects, dancers, engineers, and theatre, new media, and video artists. See list of collaborators.
Throughout 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, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, MacDowell Art Colony, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Experimental TV Center, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the California Arts Council.
Angie has demonstrated a commitment to social justice with the establishment of numerous programs aimed at the 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 trained 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 teaches Deep Listening workshops and is a life coach professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
She holds a doctorate in Kosmorganic aesthetics, immersive spaces in art that enhance healing, spirituality and community. She is an independent writer on the arts and a European correspondent for the Fluxus zine, Artist Organized Art and has written for Currents AAPI Newsletter and Solving Sacramento, demonstrating her commitment to promoting critical dialogue between artists, art practice, and dissemination via public events.