Whether in large-scale public installations or major museum exhibitions, Wing Young Huie creates
up-to-the-minute societal mirrors of our changing cultural landscape. His first major project in 1995 focused on Frogtown, one of the oldest neighborhoods in St. Paul and home to the largest Hmong community in Minnesota. After two years photographing hundreds of residents immersed in their
various daily rituals, Wing installed a groundbreaking outdoor exhibition on a vacant grass lot in Frogtown. Mounted on Styrofoam panels and shrink wrapped in clear plastic, this vulnerable exhibition in a stigmatized urban neighborhood generally thought of as the “ghetto,” commingled thousands of viewers from the surrounding areas with those from outside the city who normally would never venture into the urban core.

Wing’s current work is The University Avenue Project, focusing on a major thoroughfare in St. Paul, Minnesota that borders the State Capitol. In collaboration with Public Art St. Paul and with funding from the Joyce Foundation, Wing will create a five-mile gallery of 500 photographs in 2010, reflecting the complex cultural and socioeconomic diversity of St. Paul neighborhoods along University Avenue. Photographs will be exhibited in store windows along University Avenue, and projected at night onto large outdoor screens, accompanied by prerecorded and once a month live music performances.

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