Christine Wong Yap investigates optimism and pessimism through metaphors like light, language and perception. Her installations, sculptures, light projects, works on paper and multiples have been exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area—recently in Galleon Trade, Bay Area Now Edition at YBCA—and in New York, Philadelphia, Manila, Osaka, and the UK. Her work is in the Alameda County Art Collection.

This year, Wong Yap was a Breathe Artist in Residence at Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, UK. She has been recognized with the Center for Cultural Innovation's Investing in Artists grant, a Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, and a San Francisco Bay Guardian Local Hero Award. In 2008, she was a collaborator in the Activist Imagination project, which was supported by the Creative Work Fund and a San Francisco Foundation Fund for Artists Matching Commissions Grant.

Born in California, Wong Yap holds a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA). She lives in Oakland, CA and is an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.