Bio

Christine Wong Yap makes installations, works on paper and multiples to explore themes of optimism and pessimism. She sees pessimism as tied to the mundane and material, while optimism suggests the possibility of transcendence.

She has exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area, most recently in a two-woman show at Frey Norris Gallery and a solo project at Swarm Gallery. She has also participated in group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Washington State, Manila, Osaka, and Cumbria, UK. Her work is in the Alameda County Art Collection.

She has been recognized with an Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, a Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, and a San Francisco Bay Guardian Local Hero Award, among others. The Activist Imagination project (a collaboration with Kearny Street Workshop, Donna Keiko Ozawa, Bob Hsiang and Wong Yap) was supported by the Creative Work Fund and a San Francisco Foundation Fund for Artists Matching Commissions Grant.

Born in California, Wong Yap holds a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA). Her involvement in community work includes apprenticing with an internationally recognized muralist and leading 17 mural projects around the country. She lives in Oakland, CA and is an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.

Contact

Work: Sausalito, CA

Live: Oakland, CA

Email: cwy [at] christinewongyap.com

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