HEIDY SUMEI CHUANG
ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT
Heidy Sumei Chuang is a Taiwanese-American artist from Atlanta, Georgia, working in both floral design and painted media. She holds a B.F.A. in painting from Washington University and an M.F.A. from Boston University.
Chuang’s work invites viewers into a contemplative, healing space of wonder. Her artistic vision is rooted in the garden, where flowers and leaves tell a story of awakening and beauty. Within this quiet sanctuary, she discovers her purpose as a painter. Capturing the spaces between petals, leaves, and branches on paper becomes an act of poetic revelation. Through delicate forms and flowing lines, she expresses a deep attentiveness to nature’s intricacies.
Her creative process begins with an intimate engagement with raw materials. She observes the texture of the paper, the fibers of her brushes, the fluidity of water, and the richness of mineral-based pigments—each element guiding her brushwork. By painting with colors extracted from rocks and minerals, Chuang reveals the essence of her subjects, translating the fragile and ineffable into visual form. Her work embodies a fundamental longing of the human heart: the pursuit of the unseen and the deeply felt.
Heidy Sumei Chuang has presented solo exhibitions such as Consider the Lilies at Petali Flowers in Boston, MA; Butterfly Project, showcased as an A Rocha USA Artist Partner at L'Abri Fellowship in Southborough, MA; Butterflies of France at A Rocha International in France; There is a River at Ditra Art in New York; Passage through Dust and Stone at Hebzibah House in New York; and Watercolors from the Middle East at Chalet Melez in Huémoz, Switzerland. From 2014 to 2015, Chuang was nominated as the lead floral designer for Petali Flowers at the Faculty Club, Harvard University, in Boston, MA.
Chuang's works were featured in numerous publications including the artist review Butterflies of France of A Rocha International, Painting the City on New Boston Post, Pace Journal, Artist Feature on Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Architectural Digest, Designer's Favorite Florist on Hotel W, Floral Designer for Nationwide Marketing and many more. Most recently Chuang studied Art and Theology at L’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland and completed a residency in Biodiversity Conservation, at A Rocha Portugal, Algarve, Portugal.
Chuang’s work invites viewers into a contemplative, healing space of wonder. Her artistic vision is rooted in the garden, where flowers and leaves tell a story of awakening and beauty. Within this quiet sanctuary, she discovers her purpose as a painter. Capturing the spaces between petals, leaves, and branches on paper becomes an act of poetic revelation. Through delicate forms and flowing lines, she expresses a deep attentiveness to nature’s intricacies.
Her creative process begins with an intimate engagement with raw materials. She observes the texture of the paper, the fibers of her brushes, the fluidity of water, and the richness of mineral-based pigments—each element guiding her brushwork. By painting with colors extracted from rocks and minerals, Chuang reveals the essence of her subjects, translating the fragile and ineffable into visual form. Her work embodies a fundamental longing of the human heart: the pursuit of the unseen and the deeply felt.
Heidy Sumei Chuang has presented solo exhibitions such as Consider the Lilies at Petali Flowers in Boston, MA; Butterfly Project, showcased as an A Rocha USA Artist Partner at L'Abri Fellowship in Southborough, MA; Butterflies of France at A Rocha International in France; There is a River at Ditra Art in New York; Passage through Dust and Stone at Hebzibah House in New York; and Watercolors from the Middle East at Chalet Melez in Huémoz, Switzerland. From 2014 to 2015, Chuang was nominated as the lead floral designer for Petali Flowers at the Faculty Club, Harvard University, in Boston, MA.
Chuang's works were featured in numerous publications including the artist review Butterflies of France of A Rocha International, Painting the City on New Boston Post, Pace Journal, Artist Feature on Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Architectural Digest, Designer's Favorite Florist on Hotel W, Floral Designer for Nationwide Marketing and many more. Most recently Chuang studied Art and Theology at L’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland and completed a residency in Biodiversity Conservation, at A Rocha Portugal, Algarve, Portugal.
Heidy Sumei Chuang creates a sanctuary for reflection through their delicate formation in watercolor and natural rock pigments. The light that protrudes through the spaces of overlay and convergence with each flower, reveals symbols of purity, hope, and optimism that can sustain us through even the darkest of times.
In her landscape works, Chuang links identity and place and merges them using calligraphic lines of Asian paintings interfaced with the Western landscape. She believes that where one comes from and where one lives shapes a person’s identity. Her paintings are memories of places, rather than representations of actual places. As such, these places are imaginary, existing in the space between reality and desire. Perceptible patterns and recognizable objects overlay imperceptible ones so that in many of these works, the figurative and abstract converge.
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A Yearning for the Ineffable
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