“I aim to reflect values of accessibility, transparency, generosity, and reciprocity.”
A collaborative, text-led practice that unpacks and amplifies sites of belonging.
Christine Wong Yap weaves visual art with social practice, approaching her work as a tool to foster community and explore themes of wellbeing and belonging. Her site-specific works - often facilitated through community workshops and exhibited in ‘non-art’ public spaces - combine text with comics, diagrammatic drawing and textile elements. In zines and publications, she collects stories from across the globe to create a symbolic document for collective memory. Always invested in the stories that inform her artworks, she says: “Why not make the backstory - the usually-unseen where, who and how -...
Bio
Christine Wong Yap was born in 1977 in California's San Francisco Bay, where she has recently relocated after a decade spent living and working in Queens, New York.
Practice
Her work predominantly takes the form of public projects and community collaborations in locations such as New York and Houston, US; Cumbria, UK; Toruń, Poland and Puerto Rico. In 2021 she was selected as the first ever Times Square Public Artist-in-Residence.
Did you know?
In 2020, Yap contributed a work to artist-run collective For Freedoms' trailblazing 'Awakening' campaign, which took the form of a roadside billboard asking passers by - "How do you keep your heart open?"
