Born in China, 1997, Yongqi Tang lives and works in Ellensburg, WA. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing (2022) at the University of Washington in Seattle and is now teaching at Central Washington University as an Assistant Professor.
Recent solo exhibitions have been mounted at Make Room LA; Latitude Gallery, New York; Jupiter Contemporary in Miami, FL; T293 Gallery in Rome, Italy. She has also been exhibited in numerous group shows such as Under the Talking Tree at Kunsthal n, Copenhagen; How it’s Going at 193 Gallery, Paris; Main Character at WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong. She was the recipient of 2025 Greg Kucera&Larry Yocom Fellowship Award. Her art has been covered in numerous outlets, including New American Paintings, Whitehot Magazine, Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and elsewhere.