Amy Yao

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Amy Yao (born June 18, 1977, Los Angeles, California) is a contemporary visual artist making work in many different mediums informed by ideas of waste, consumption, and identity. She is represented by Various Small Fires in Los Angeles and 47 Canal in New York City. Yao is a lecturer in visual arts at Princeton University, NJ.[1] Her sister Wendy is proprietor of Ooga Booga art boutique in Los Angeles.[2]

Yao received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in CA in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in CT in 2007.[1] Yao did a TRADES artist residency in Hawaii in 2017.[3]

She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Eckhaus Latta: Possessed),[4] MoMA PS1 (Greater New York, 2010),[5] 47 Canal (Weeds of Indifference),[6] and Various Small Fires (Bay of Smokes).[7] Yao was included in the 2019 Honolulu Biennial.[3]

Writing about Weeds of Indifference in Artforum, Chloe Wyma noted, "Refusing the readymade’s historical and contemporary postures—the cynical/ironic critique of the commodity form, the mystification of materials—Yao’s gnomic, desublimated sculptures are sometimes puzzling and not always easy to love. Nonetheless, their difficulties reflect honest questions: 'What is even real?' she asks, speaking of when 'the new authentic is used to eradicate what came before.'"[6]

In 1993, Yao, with her sister Wendy, was a founding member of Emily's Sassy Lime an all-Asian American teenage riot grrrl trio from Southern California. The band dissolved in 1997.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Amy Yao - Lecturer in Visual Arts". princeton.edu. Princeton. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  2. ^ Alani, Anaheed (9 June 2011). "Why Can't I Be You: Wendy Yao". Rookie.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Marius, Marley (12 March 2019). "At the Honolulu Biennial, Artist Amy Yao Examines Environments and Identity (With the Help of Some Algae)". Vogue.
  4. ^ "Eckhaus Latta: Possessed". whitney.org. Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Greater New York". momaps1.org. MoMA PS1. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Wyma, Chloe (September 2017). "Critic's Picks". artforum.com. Artforum.
  7. ^ Mizota, Sharon (11 February 2016). "Amy Yao's art of contamination: Not everything is as perfect as it seems". Los Angeles Times.

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