Ka Oskar Ly (they/she/nws/nwg) is a queer HMong artist and cultural producer. Their work combines fiber arts, soft sculpture, installations, and social practice to explore the power and tensions of identity, culture, and place. Striving to create liberatory ways of being, they craft evidence that navigates nuances without words like 'art' or 'queer' in the HMong language. As an immigrant and child of refugees, Ka is driven to create possibilities through cultural innovation and facilitation. Ka's work seeks to challenge expectations of familiar materials and re/consider the relationships and alternatives for labor and supplies by creating objects, conversations, and spaces as languages.

As a co-founder of Ua Si Creative, a HMong artist collective, Ka collaborates to explore innovative approaches for community engagement through co-design, production, and curation in public space. They are committed to a practice of shared liberation through movement-building and a spirit of abundance. Prior to this, for nearly two decades, they have mobilized communities for racial and gender/queer justice and continue to work at the intersection of creativity and social change. As an individual practitioner, they have received numerous awards, from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Forecast Public Art, and fellowships from Springboard for the Arts, the McKnight Artist Fellowship, the Jerome Foundation, and the Intercultural Leadership Institute.