Kyla Liang (b. 2001, China) is a New York–based artist working across images, videos, objects, and installations. Her work translates the feeling and aesthetic of being in the city. It attends to urban environments, their underlying social structures, and everyday gestures, tracing the physical and psychological boundaries of space: public, private, and the liminal zones in between.

Working across video, staged images, and street-based interventions and installations, she introduces subtle mismatches that make familiar urban forms newly noticeable. She reworks index, scale, and function, to shift how objects and spaces relate. Her work moves between the miniature and the monumental, placing the sublime beside the everyday. Her practice balances a playful, improvisational touch with a precise, almost architectural sense of structure.

With a background in social science and filmmaking, she is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design. Her solo exhibition was presented at Houshan Art Space in Zhuhai, China. Her work has also been shown at the American Center for Photographers, the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, A4 Art Museum in Chengdu, Another Art Museum in Guangzhou, and the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, as well as film festivals in Macau. Her video work received the Jury’s Special Mention Prize at Macao Films and Videos Panorama and the Macao Youth Film Festival, as well as a Top 5 Documentaries Award at the First Macau Documentary Competition. Her publications and artworks have been shown at Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs and the Available Works Book Fair. She is also the founder of Detour Press, an independent publishing project that explores detour as a way to reclaim and renegotiate public space, publishing works that trace the boundaries between the urban environment, infrastructure, and everyday gestures.

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