Wing Young Huie

Wing Young Huie’s photos have been exhibited in major museums and galleries, but his best-known works, Lake Street USA and The University Avenue Project, were public art projects that transformed Minneapolis and St. Paul thoroughfares into six-mile photo galleries. The StarTribune named him Artist of the Year in 2000, stating, “Lake Street USA is likely to stand as a milestone in the history of photography and public art.” In 2018 Wing was honored with the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, the first photographer ever to receive the award in its 21-year history. His seventh and most personal book, Chinese-ness: The Meanings of Identity and the Nature of Belonging (Minnesota Historical Society Press, fall 2018) won a Minnesota Book Award and a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. It is in classrooms and non-arts venues where his work has been most impactful, as he’s given over a thousand presentations to audiences of all kinds—including K-12 classrooms, colleges, museums, non-profits, corporations, and places of worship—showing the various ways he’s photographically engaged thousands of strangers.