Janice Yang is a figurative painter whose work is shaped by her upbringing in South Korea and her relocation to the United States in late adolescence. Her practice emerges from this movement between cultures and engages questions of migration, identity, labor, memory, and displacement. Drawing on symbolic elements from Korean art, Yang creates liminal, illusionistic spaces that exist between places and states of belonging. Through layered surfaces and recurring motifs, her paintings connect everyday labor with shifting ideas of home. Her figures and interior scenes reflect personal memory as well as experiences of cultural transformation.

Yang earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she currently serves as a lecturer. Yang also holds a Master’s in Education from Portland State University and received her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, after studying at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. She was awarded the Roger Brown and George Veronda Scholarship at SAIC, the AXA Art Prize, Oregon Arts Commission Grant, The Gallery MOMO Residency in South Africa, and the Golden Artist Colors Educators Residency. Yang’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, London, Chicago, and Seattle, Seoul, and Portland.