AMY YAO

Amy Yao lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She received a BFA with Honors from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, in 1999 and a MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, in 2007. Her work has been exhibited at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; MoMA PS1, New York; the 8^th White Columns Annual, New York; the MoMA, New York; He Xiang Art Museum, Shenzhen; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Chinese in America, New York. In 2012, she received the Creative Capital Grant, and in 2011 the Printed Matter Artists Award. She has also been the recipient of the CUNY-PSC Professional Development Grant in 2009, and the Susan H. Whedon Award from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, in 2007. Amy Yao is represented by 47 Canal, New York; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; and Mathew Gallery, New York and Berlin.