Bio

Antonia Kao is a San Francisco Bay Area-based visual artist currently working primarily in painting, photography, and on site-specific installations. As a documentary filmmaker, she directed and produced films screened at film festivals internationally. Her work includes PUP, about a fetish and spirituality (Best Documentary Short at CineKink 2005); Straight White Men and Me, an autobiographical documentary integrating animation (Anti-Defamation League Dore Schary Humanitarian Film & Video Documentary Finalist Award 2000, PBS 2007); and Lullaby, an alternative creation myth (Audience Award for Best Experimental Film at Outfest 2000). Other motion picture projects she has worked on have shown on Discovery Health, TLC, LOGO, MTV, and at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Her writing or photography have been published in The New York Times, Vogue Knitting, Girlfriends Magazine, and YogiTimes. Antonia earned an MFA from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Cinema-TV and a BA from Wellesley College. When not making art, she can often be found on the yoga mat, practicing or teaching yoga.  

Artist Statement

I am currently experimenting greatly with media so am not clearly 'defined' as an artist. What ties the Work together seems to be a desire to connect with, uplift, and heal fellow spirits; and a desire to do Work through a process that is about letting Divinity flow through. So, the Work seems to be about a surrendering - to a space beyond words, beyond pre-planning, and beyond the conscious ego mind.