Henna Wang is a Taiwanese-American artist and sociologist whose work explores the emotional and psychological landscapes between people and place.

 

Raised between Taiwan and the United States and now based in the French Alps, her practice is shaped by movement, migration, and the experience of living between cultures. Drawn to thresholds, transitions, and states of in-between-ness, she is interested in the invisible architectures that shape how we move through the world: memory, atmosphere, infrastructure, and the quiet longing for home.

 

She is the co-founder of Gesso, a creative studio producing immersive audio, video, and editorial storytelling rooted in place. Through interviews, sound, and cultural research, her work often centers artists, local communities, and overlooked narratives, exploring how stories shift across languages, geographies, and emotional contexts.

 

Alongside her work through Gesso, Henna’s artistic practice spans painting, textiles, sound, and participatory projects with families and local communities. Since becoming a mother, her work has increasingly reflected on care, creative health, longing, tenderness, and the beauty found in everyday rituals.

 

Grounded in deep listening and observation, her practice explores the beauty of the in-between: between languages, identities, landscapes, and the many ways we try to find our way back to ourselves and one another.