Janice Yang is a figurative painter and illustrator whose work is shaped by her upbringing in South Korea and her relocation to the U.S. in her late adolescence. Formed through this movement between cultures, she engages questions of immigration, identity, labor, memory, and displacement.

Drawing from symbolic elements in Korean art, Yang creates liminal, illusionistic spaces that hover between places and states of belonging. Through layered surfaces and recurring symbols, her paintings connect everyday labor to shifting and fragile ideas of home. Through layered surfaces and recurring symbols, her paintings connect everyday labor to shifting ideas of home. Her figures and interiors reflect personal memory and experiences of cultural betweenness.

Yang studied Illustration at Art Center College of Design before completing her BFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She earned a Master of Education from Portland State University and is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a Gold Medal in the educator category of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and was selected for the Golden Artist Colors Art Educator Residency in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in New York, London, Chicago, Seattle, Seoul, and Portland.