Amy Yao

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Amy Yao (born June 18, 1977, Los Angeles, California) is a musician, curator, and contemporary visual artist making work in many different mediums informed by ideas of waste, consumption, and identity. [1] She is represented by 47 Canal in New York City. Yao is a lecturer in visual arts at Princeton University in New Jersey. [2] Her sister Wendy Yao was proprietor of Ooga Booga art boutique and bookstore in Los Angeles. [3] [4]

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Music

In 1993, Yao and her sister Wendy were founding members of Emily's Sassy Lime, an all-Asian American teenage riot grrrl trio from Southern California. [1] [3] [4] The band dissolved in 1997. [5] They all played multiple instruments and switched instruments during performances. [6] Yao has been involved over the years with several different bands, frequently collaborating with Tobi Vail.

Art

Yao received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in California in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in Connecticut in 2007. [2] Yao co-founded contemporary art gallery China Art Objects Galleries in 1999 with other graduates of Art Center. [7] [8]

Yao has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Eckhaus Latta: Possessed), [9] MoMA PS1 (Greater New York, 2010), [10] 47 Canal (Weeds of Indifference), [11] and Various Small Fires (Bay of Smokes). [12] Yao did a TRADES artist residency in Hawaii in 2017, and she was included in the 2019 Honolulu Biennial. [5]

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.'" [11]

Amy and Wendy Yao have also collaborated on curatorial projects, including their Art Swap Meet at Andrea Zittel's High Desert Test Sites. [1] [13] [14]

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  2. 1 2 "Amy Yao - Lecturer in Visual Arts". princeton.edu. Princeton. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 Alani, Anaheed (19 June 2012). "Why Can't I Be You: Wendy Yao". Rookie.
  4. 1 2 McNeill, Mark "Frosty" (14 September 2021). "Curator Wendy Yao on channeling your artistic enthusiasm". The Creative Independent.
  5. 1 2 Marius, Marley (12 March 2019). "At the Honolulu Biennial, Artist Amy Yao Examines Environments and Identity (With the Help of Some Algae)". Vogue .
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  7. ↑ Krygier, Irit (6 March 1999). "Report from L.A." Artnet.com Magazine.
  8. ↑ Laird, Tessa (28 April 1999). "Letter from L.A." Artnet.com Magazine.
  9. ↑ "Eckhaus Latta: Possessed". whitney.org. Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Greater New York". momaps1.org. MoMA PS1. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  11. 1 2 Wyma, Chloe (September 2017). "Critic's Picks". artforum.com. Artforum.
  12. ↑ Mizota, Sharon (11 February 2016). "Amy Yao's art of contamination: Not everything is as perfect as it seems". Los Angeles Times .
  13. ↑ Taft, Catherine (11 May 2006). "Just Desert". Artforum .
  14. ↑ "Amy and Wendy Yao's Art Swap Meet". High Desert Test Sites. 12 May 2007.
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