Fay Ku
b. 1974, Taipei, Taiwan / based in Brooklyn, NY
Fay Ku is a Taiwan-born, Brooklyn-based artist whose work is figurative, narrative and connects with past and present cultural histories. She invokes Eastern and Western traditions in her drawings which combine fluid draftsmanship and meticulous detail with idiosyncratic and often discomforting ideas. Provocative and playful, Ku’s beautifully-executed drawings pair a sexually-frank wit with uncanny tableaus featuring solitary reveries and mysterious social rituals.
Ku is the recipient of a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant and 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship grant. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, Hawaii) New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT) and Snite Museum of Art (South Bend, IN).
Her work is in the collection of Academy Art Museum (Easton, MD), Asian American Art Centre (New York), Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, HI), Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas, NV), The New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT) and The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT). She attended Bennington College in Vermont for her B.A. and holds both a M.F.A. Studio Art and M.S. Art History from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in the Fine Arts and Foundation departments, and for the Pratt in Venice summer abroad program.
In The Workshop
News and Press
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, curated by Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli
The Brooklyn Museum, October 4, 2024–January 26, 2025
Fay Ku: Combining the Whimsical with the Unknown
National Museum of Women in the Arts, September 19, 2011