Lia Ouyang Rusli (she/they) is a film composer & artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She recently scored A24's Problemista and HBO's Fantasmas by Julio Torres, Happyend (2024 Venice International Film Festival), and the Gotham Award and Independent Spirit nominated films Bruiser on Hulu and Kino Lorber’s Test Pattern. She also scored short films Bambirak and Rest Stop which won Jury Awards for International Fiction and US Fiction at Sundance. She is the recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship for Music Composition, ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen Award, Pioneer Works Music Residency, and BAFTA USA Breakthrough Fellowship.
Under her solo moniker OHYUNG, she produces genre-shifting music that moves between ambient, experimental pop, and distorted noise. Her most recent record imagine naked! is a collection of ambient soundscapes out now on NNA tapes and was described by The Quietus as a “masterful selection of muscular, shuddering, trembling ambient excursions” and was hailed by NPR as one of the best 50 albums of 2022.
She has performed for SXSW, Boiler Room, and many clubs and spaces in NYC such as Roulette, Elsewhere, Nowadays, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Trans Pecos.
Photo by Jess X. Snow