Amy Yao
{{Short description|American visual artist (born 1977)}}
Amy Yao (born June 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.{{cite web |last=Reese|first=Rachel|title=Interview with Wendy and Amy Yao|url=https://47canal.us/media/pages/artists/amy-yao/press/2384310554-1589921838/14_artpapers_9.13.pdf|date=September 2013|website=Art Papers }} She is represented by 47 Canal in New York City. Yao is a lecturer in visual arts at Princeton University in New Jersey. Her sister Wendy Yao was proprietor of Ooga Booga art boutique and bookstore in Los Angeles.{{cite web |last1=Alani |first1=Anaheed |title=Why Can't I Be You: Wendy Yao |url=http://www.rookiemag.com/2012/06/why-cant-i-be-you-2/ |website=Rookie |date=19 June 2012 }}{{cite web |last=McNeill |first=Mark "Frosty" |title=Curator Wendy Yao on channeling your artistic enthusiasm |url=https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/curator-wendy-yao-on-channeling-your-artistic-enthusiasm-into-flexible-forms/ |website=The Creative Independent |date=14 September 2021 }}
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. The band dissolved in 1997. They all played multiple instruments and switched instruments during performances.{{cite web |last=Yeung |first=Bernice |title=Tart Teen Talkers |url=https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.18.96/emilys-9629.html |website=Metro |date=18 July 1996 }} 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.{{cite web |title=Amy Yao - Lecturer in Visual Arts |url=http://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ayao/ |website=princeton.edu |publisher=Princeton |access-date=11 August 2018}} Yao co-founded contemporary art gallery China Art Objects Galleries in 1999 with other graduates of Art Center.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/krygier/krygier6-3-99.asp|last=Krygier|first=Irit|title=Report from L.A.|date=6 March 1999|website=Artnet.com Magazine}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/laird/laird4-28-99.asp|last=Laird|first=Tessa|title=Letter from L.A.|date=28 April 1999|website=Artnet.com Magazine }}
Yao has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Eckhaus Latta: Possessed),{{cite web |title=Eckhaus Latta: Possessed |url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/eckhaus-latta |website=whitney.org |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=11 August 2018}} MoMA PS1 (Greater New York, 2010),{{cite web |title=Greater New York |url=http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/310 |website=momaps1.org |publisher=MoMA PS1 |access-date=11 August 2018}} 47 Canal (Weeds of Indifference),{{cite web |last1=Wyma |first1=Chloe |title=Critic's Picks |url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/amy-yao-71119 |website=artforum.com |publisher=Artforum |date=September 2017}} and Various Small Fires (Bay of Smokes).{{cite web |last1=Mizota |first1=Sharon |title=Amy Yao's art of contamination: Not everything is as perfect as it seems |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-amy-yao-at-various-small-fires-20160201-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=11 February 2016 }} Yao did a TRADES artist residency in Hawaii in 2017, and she was included in the 2019 Honolulu Biennial.{{cite web |last1=Marius |first1=Marley |title=At the Honolulu Biennial, Artist Amy Yao Examines Environments and Identity (With the Help of Some Algae) |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/at-the-honolulu-biennial-artist-amy-yao-environments-and-identity |work=Vogue |date=12 March 2019 }}
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.'"
Amy and Wendy Yao have also collaborated on curatorial projects, including their Art Swap Meet at Andrea Zittel's High Desert Test Sites.{{cite web |last=Taft |first=Catherine |title=Just Desert|url=https://www.artforum.com/diary/catherine-taft-on-high-desert-test-sites-10965|work=Artforum|date=11 May 2006 }}{{cite web |title=Amy and Wendy Yao's Art Swap Meet|url=https://highdeserttestsites.com/programs/hdts-events/hdts-2007/amy-and-wendy-yao-s-art-swapmeet-2007|website=High Desert Test Sites |date=12 May 2007 }}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180725181927/http://www.amyyao.info/art.html amyyao.com]
- [http://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/ayao/ Visual Arts Faculty, Princeton University]
- [http://www.vsf.la/ vsf.la]
- [http://www.47canal.us/ 47canal.us]
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