- RESIDENCY DATES : Mar 1st 2010 to Apr 30th 2010
- FROM : USA
Imin Yeh works in the medium of woodcuts, screen prints, and downloadable craft projects to create large-scale installations and interactive projects. Projects meditate upon the exchange of objects and labor that connects American and Chinese histories, cultures, and economies, and explore the function of souvenirs in cultural tourism; the relationship between buying and learning. She finds Chinoiserie fascinating, patterns and repetition calming, and believes that working with her hands is the meaning of life.
She is a recipient of the 2009 Barclay Simpson MFA Award (juried by Oakland Museum of the Art’s Senior Curator, Rene de Guzman and Barbara Goldstein,the Public Art Director of the city of San Jose), the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship (2008) and the Yozo Hamaguchi Endowed Scholarship in 2007. She has had recent exhibitions at ProArts Gallery in Oakland, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Kearny Street Workshop, the Spare Room Project, and the Chinese Cultural Center. BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison; MFA, California College of the Arts. She lives and works in San Francisco.