Having studied and worked between China and America, Yongqi Tang has drawn influence from these drastically different cultures and ideologies. As such, the artist deconstructs her roles in private and public spaces, investigating through painting and drawing how social identities get constructed. Yongqi’s works examine our self-mediated images and how they relate to the broader human experiences of gender, sexuality and nationality. By blending allegories, myths and symbols from both Western and Chinese traditions, she playfully reinterprets the discourse around these fungible categories into which we are born.

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), and her BS in Psychology (2019) from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

She has mounted her work in a solo exhibition at Specialist Gallery in Seattle, WA, and group shows such as Cruel Spring at Latitude Gallery in New York City, NY (2023); Culture II at Strada World in New York City, NY (2022); The End at Sandpoint Gallery in Seattle, WA (2022); and The Reordering of Things at Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle, WA (2021).

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 Shoutout LA, Maake Magazine, and elsewhere.