Born in Beijing, Banyi Huang 黄半衣 (they/them) is an artist, writer, and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work combines digital worldbuilding, text, installation, and performance to stage queer reenactments of Chinese mythologies andfolklore, reimagining deities and demons, performative rituals, and ceremonial devices. In their videos and new media works, they set up digital-ambient environments to self-soothe, inhabit altered states, and process trauma. Through a process of archival research, prototyping, and digital fabrication, they create talismanic ritual devices to center and activate the body.

Their work has been shown at group exhibitions at DEMO 2024 (presented by NEW INC), the Shisanwu LLC Warehouse, Smack Mellon, Accent Sisters, Abrons Art Center, The Soto Velez Clemente Center, Special Special, and Artist’s Space (all New York). Their work was recently featured on the Wagner Mendoça Award Exhibition, a two-person online exhibition presented by New Media Caucus. Screenings of their work include the New Museum, the Taiwan Film and Audio Institute (Taipei), Wonderville (NY), and the Flat Earth Festival (Seydisfjordur, Iceland).

With a B.A. in Art History from Williams College and a M.A. in Art History and Curation from Columbia University, Banyi has also contributed writings to the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Frieze, Spike Art, ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum China, Performa Magazine, Frieze Magazine, and has realized curatorial projects at the Musée des Arts Asiatiques (Nice, France), PRACTICE Yonkers (New York), Assembly Room (New York), Center for Performance Research (New York), among others. They also run a line of dildo-inspired, 3D printed body accessories called AmorousPolymers.

They were an artist in residence at BRIClab 2022-2023, and a Year 10  Art and Code track member at NEW INC from 2023-2024. Banyi is the recipient of the WCWD Grant from Asian Arts Alliance (2024) and the 2024 Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead Microgrant.