Amy Yao

Amy Yao

Amy Yao is a contemporary visual artist and educator. She works in many different mediums informed by ideas of waste and consumption. In 1993, Yao was a founding member of Emily’s Sassy Lime, an all-Asian American teenage riot grrrl trio from Southern California. Yao received a BFA (1999) from Art Center College of Design in California and an MFA (2007) from Yale University in Connecticut. She currently teaches at Princeton University.

Selected exhibitions include the Institute for Fine Arts NYU, NY; Indipendenza, Rome, IT; 47 Canal, New York, NY; VI, VII, Oslo, NO; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea; Honolulu Biennial 2019, HI; Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, CN.