Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Zhi Wei Hiu, an NYC-based interdisciplinary artist exploring the materiality of images and the relationship between ornamentation, the body, and self-expression.
Zhi Wei Hiu
Zhi Wei Hiu
Zhi Wei Hiu is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC who attended Catwalk in 2024 as a collaborator. Trained in analogue photography, they approach making and printing images as a sensuous process that connects the body with the materiality of the image. Working with silver, wax, and glass, they explore alternative image-making methods and the resonances created by combining disparate materials, forms, and gestures. Their practice also examines ornamentation's historical and cultural significance in relation to self-expression. Creating objects for personal adornment and spatial decoration, they consider ornamented objects essential extensions of the body and layered vessels for conveying meaning.
