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Christine Wong Yap
Dark Into Light,Dark Into Light,
2008, mixed media installation
© Courtesy the Artist
Inventions-Dark Light (Desk Model),Christine Wong YapChristine Wong Yap,
Inventions-Dark Light (Desk Model),
2007, graphite, paper and acetate, 20 x 16"
© courtesy of the Artist and Frey Norris Gallery
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LIVES IN:  
Oakland, CA
WORKS IN:  
Sausalito, CA
WEBSITE:  
http://christinewongyap.com
SCHOOLS:  
California College of the Arts (CCA), 1998, BFA
California College of the Arts (CCA), 2008, MFA
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Christine Wong Yap makes installations, works on paper and multiples to explore themes of optimism and pessimism.

In addition to a recent solo project at Swarm Gallery (Oakland, CA), her exhibitions include group shows at the Museum of Craft and Folk Arts, the De Anza College Euphrat Museum, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, the Oakland Museum Restaurant Gallery, Southern Exposure, Pro Arts Gallery and the Berkeley Art Center. Nationally, her work has been shown at Limner Gallery (NYC), A.I.R. Gallery (NYC), Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia), and V.U. Gallery (Bellingham, WA). Her work has also been exhibited at Green Papaya Art Projects (Philippines), Osaka University (Japan) and the FRED Festival (UK). Christine's work is in the Alameda County Art Collection.

 She has been recognized with the Center for Cultural Innovation's Investing in Artists grant, a  Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, a San Francisco Bay Guardian Local Hero Award, an Active Element grant for art activism, the Women of Color Resource Center's Sister of Fire Award and a Yozo Hamaguchi Endowed scholarship. In collaboration with Kearny Street Workshop, Donna Keiko Ozawa and Bob Hsiang, Yap has also been the recipient of a Creative Work Fund grant and a San Francisco Foundation Fund for Artists Matching Commissions Grant.

 

Born in California, Christine holds a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA). Her involvement in community work includes apprenticing with an internationally recognized muralist and leading 17 mural projects around the country. She lives in Oakland, CA and is an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.

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> EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Current Exhibitions and Events
Oct, 2008 SHIFTED FOCUS: A 10th Anniversary APAture Retrospective
Kearny Street Workshop
 
Past Exhibitions and Events
Sep, 2008 Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
 
Jul, 2008 Ground Scores
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
 
May, 2008 Intersection 2008 Annual Fundraising Art Auction & Birthday Party
Intersection for the Arts
 
May, 2008 Activist Imagination: Exhibition Closing Reception & Catalog Release
Kearny Street Workshop
 
Apr, 2008 Sorry
Frey Norris Gallery
 
Feb, 2008 Dark Into Light
Swarm Gallery
 
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