Ka Oskar Ly (they/she/nws/nwg) is a queer HMong interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Their work combines fiber arts, sculpture, installations, and community engagement to explore the power and tensions of identity, culture, and place.

Ka creates evidence that navigates nuances in the absence of words like 'art' or 'queer' in the HMong language striving to create liberatory practices. As an immigrant and child of refugees, Ka is driven to create possibilities by crafting and facilitating world making steeped in research through traditions, contemporary contexts, and intuitive desires and imagination. Their work seeks to challenge expectations of the familiar and unfamiliar to re/consider the relationships to the body, place, and materials by creating objects, conversations, and immersive space.

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.