Boyang Hou
Neighborhood Luminary Salon
Boyang Hou (b. Xi'an, China) is an artist working in painting, sculpture, and design. Hou's works have been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois; Creative Center Osaka, Osaka, Japan; 68projects, Berlin, Germany; and Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been the beneficiary of several grants and awards, including the Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency, Boston, Massachusetts; Dave Bown Projects; featured in New American Paintings (Issues #114, #125); and is a Luminarts Finalist. Hou has attended residencies at Boston Center for the Arts, Ace Hotel Chicago, ACRE Residency, Compound Yellow, and Vermont Studio Center, and has been mentioned in Artsy, the Chicago Reader, and Art in America, among others. Hou received his BFA from New York University and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hou is one half of Limited Time Engagement and was one of four co-founders at the artist-run gallery Fernwey, active in Chicago from 2014–2018.
To know more, you can follow along at www.boyanghou.com or on Instagram at @whoshobo.
Photo by Samantha Lyne
The Neighborhood Salon is supported in part by the Anne Hawley Fund for Programs, the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. These programs are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
