Bio

Christine Wong Yap’s installations, sculptures, multiples and works on paper have been exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area—currently in We have as much time as it takes at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco)—and in New York, Los Angeles, Manila, Osaka, London, Newcastle, Manchester and Cumbria (U.K.). Her work is in the Alameda County Art Collection.

She has been recognized with the Breathe residency at Chinese Arts Centre (Manchester, U.K.), the Affiliate Artist program at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Center for Cultural Innovation's Investing in Artists grant, a Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, and a San Francisco Bay Guardian Local Hero Award. In 2008, she was a collaborator in the Activist Imagination project, which was supported by the Creative Work Fund and a San Francisco Foundation Fund for Artists Matching Commissions Grant.

Her idea-driven practice results in an experimental, idiosyncratic output—an “oeuvre, which entertains the possibility of perceiving contradiction and paradox, of imagining the ultimately unknowable or imperceptible—but always with a cheeky acknowledgment of the disingenuousness inherent in surface appearances” (Nirmala Nataraj/SFStation.com). “Wong Yap's articulations of her ideas are very economical—austere materials and simple design allow far-reaching questions to be posed without extraneous or distracting ornament” (Kevin Chen, Activist Imagination catalog).

Born in California, Wong Yap holds a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA). She lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Contact

Email: cwy [at] christinewongyap.com