👋😊Hello! My name is Zoe. If you don’t already know me, I’d love to share a little about me! For starters, I am an artist based in the Twin Cities.
🎨Recently, I’ve specialized in painting; using gouache on wood slabs that have live bark edges (shop my Custom Wood Art!). However, I’ve loved working with a variety of mediums throughout the years for my paintings and drawings, like colored pencils, watercolors, oils, and graphite.
✨Much of my art lends itself to Magical Realism. I believe a touch of magic can elevate the storytelling in art, by diving into feelings and transforming them into visuals projected onto an otherwise “real” world. This Magical Realist technique has the power to help reveal emotional truths that might otherwise be elusive.
👾I’ve always created art but it was at 16 years old that I began posting it on instagram (@zoemae.art). I started out doing portraiture, which helped me learn how to draw. Sharing my art and gaining inspiration from others online has helped me learn and develop my style by invaluable measure.
📚I graduated in 2021 with a degree in Studio Art from the College of Saint Benedict (CSB). At CSB I illustrated my first children’s book, “Middling”, written by Meg McMahon; and curated several galleries including “La Femme”: a celebration of femininity for all genders and identities.
🤍I believe femininity is powerful, and aimed to represent this belief in my senior art thesis. I further explored art about femininity at my two-person exhibition “Free Soul” at the Coffman Art Gallery at the University of Minnesota (2022-2023).
🎊In 2024, Zoe Mae Art officially became an LLC. Zoe Mae Art offers a variety of products and services, ranging from Custom Wood Art and Children’s Book Illustration, to event offerings: Live Fashion Illustration and Live Painting. Find me at a pop-up market (info posted on my instagram) in the Twin Cities or visit my shop to purchase my original art, stickers, prints, and more!
♥️I hope you take some time to explore some of my work, and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
Zoe Mae Huot-Link is an artist and poet located in the Twin Cities. Her work has been published in For Women Who Roar, Chapter House Journal, The Antonym, among others; and has won superior ratings and scholarship awards at the Selections Visual Arts Festival and AZ Gallery. She is a winner of the Joseph O’Connell Art Scholarship as well as the Manitou Creative Writing Fellowship of the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict (CSB). She studied ancient calligraphy and martial arts in Bei Bei, China at Southwest University. In 2021, Zoe received her bachelor's degree in Studio Art with a minor in English Writing from CSB.