Born in China, 1997, Yongqi Tang lives and works in Seattle, WA. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing (2022), her BA in Painting and Drawing (2019) from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
Recent solo exhibitions have been mounted at Latitude Gallery, New York; Le Scalze, Naples; Jupiter Contemporary in Miami, FL; T293 Gallery in Rome, Italy. She has also been exhibited in numerous group shows such as I Go To Seek A Great Perhaps at Make Room LA; A Happy Beginning and Cruel Spring at Latitude Gallery in NY; David Zwirner’s Platform Online Viewing Room.
She is the recipient of the Artist Trust GAP Award (2023), Bernie Funk Artist Scholarship (2022), the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists Scholarship Award (2022). Her art has been covered in numerous outlets, including New American Paintings, Whitehot Magazine, Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and elsewhere.