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About Amy Yao
- Amy Yao (b.
- June 18, 1977, Los Angeles, California) is a contemporary visual artist making work in many different mediums informed by ideas of waste and consumption. Yao received a Bachelor of Fine Art (1999) from Art Center College of Design, CA and a Master of Fine Arts (2007) from Yale University, CT.She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Eckhaus Latta: Possessed), MoMA PS1 (Greater New York, 2010), 47 Canal (Weeds of Indifference), and Various Small Fires (Bay of Smokes)Writing about Weeds of Indifference in Artforum, critic Chloe Wymna 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.'"Yao is a lecturer in visual arts at Princeton University, NJ.
- In 1993, Yao was a founding member of Emily's Sassy Lime an all-Asian American teenage riot grrrl trio from Southern California.
- The band dissolved in 1997. Yao is represented by Various Small Fires in Los Angeles, CA and 47 Canal in New York, NY.
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