Yongqi Tang Chinese
Yongqi’s works examine the fluidity of our self-images and relate to the broader human experience of the ambiguousness of identities such as gender, sexuality, and nationality. Through blending allegories, myths, and symbols from both Western and Chinese Classicist traditions, she creates a playful in-betweenness to reinterpret the categories into which we are born to rearticulate the discourse around them.
Yongqi Tang was born in 1997 in China and lives in Seattle, WA. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing (2022), her BA in Painting and Drawing (2019) from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
Recent solo exhibitions have been mounted at Jupiter Contemporary in Miami, FL; T293 Gallery in Rome, Italy; and Specialist Gallery in Seattle, WA. She has also been exhibited in numerous group shows such as Cruel Spring at LATITUDE Gallery in New York City, NY (2023); David Zwirner’s Platform Online Viewing Room(2023); Culture II at Strada World in New York City, NY (2022).
She is the recipient of the Bernie Funk Artist Scholarship (2022), the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists Scholarship Award (2022), and the Boyer and Elizabeth Bole Gonzales Scholarship for Excellence (2021).
Her art has been covered in numerous outlets, including New American Paintings, All SHE Makes, Maake Magazine, and elsewhere.
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IMPULSE: Yongqi Tang’s Visceral Paintings of Violence and Healing
Clare Gemima, IMPULSE, November 10, 2024 -
Artnet: 5 Hot Artists to Watch Out for on Artnet Gallery Network
Drawn from galleries all over the world, exploring and discovering new art has never been easier.Artnet News, November 10, 2024 -
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE: Rediscovering Venus: Brutal Origins and Defiant resilience in Yongqi Tang’s The Open Venus
Clare Gemima, WHITEHOT MAGAZINE, October 28, 2024 -
ARTEFUSE: Yongqi Tangs’ The Open Venus: Abject Beauty at Latitude Gallery, NYC
Bash Ortega, ARTEFUSE, October 24, 2024 -
Whitehot Magazine: Learning Through Curating. Two Shows Highlighting A New Generation of Chinese Artists
Paul Laster, Whitehot Magazine , August 8, 2023 -
LiTang: LATITUDE Gallery Presents Group Exhibition, Cruel Spring
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Yongqi Tang: The Open Venus
October 11 - November 10, 2024Read more -
A Happy Beginning
July 27 - August 27, 2023Read more -
Cruel Spring: Jamie Chan, Ye Cheng, Xi Li, Dana Nechmad, Eunjung Park, Yongqi Tang
March 12 - April 11, 2023Spring, the occultist, 'breeding lilacs out of the dead land', again emerges with unstoppable energy, yet at the bottom of this emergence tumid veins quiver in the dark, suppressed by...Read more
