Ka Oskar Ly (they/she/nws/nwg) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose world-making practice navigates liminal thresholds and temporal shifts through fiber arts, sculpture, installations, rituals of care and community.

Ka's practice centers the complexities of being and belonging, opening pathways toward reconnection and futurity. Working within the gaps where language falls short, such as the absence of direct translations for 'art' or 'queer' in HMong, Ka creates evidence that navigates these nuances through form rather than words, cultivating liberatory and decolonial methodologies. Drawing from research across generations, landscapes, traditions, contemporary contexts, and intuitive desires, Ka crafts possibilities rooted in ancestral connection and the entanglements of settler colonial realities. Through objects, conversations, and cultivated environments, their work re/considers relationships to body, place, time, and materials.

As a co-founder of Ua Si Creative, a HMong artist collective, Ka also facilitates and 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 fellowships from the McKnight Artist Fellowship, the Jerome Foundation, the American Craft Council (Emerging Artist Cohort), Springboard for the Arts, and the Intercultural Leadership Institute, as well as awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and Forecast Public Art.