BIO
alisa yang (she/they) is an antidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, cultural worker, and emerging disability advocate with a research based practice exploring alternative ways art can serve as a currency for care. Centering the body as a site of socio-geopolitical conditionings, they works across video, installation, and situational specific projects in orienting oneself towards social change. Their films focus on the experiences of Asian women/nonbinary navigating cultural identity and generational trauma, mining personal narratives with humor and vulnerability.
Yang earned her BFA from Art Center of Design in 2009 and MFA at the University of Michigan in 2016. Their work has been exhibited and screened internationally in places like MoMAPS1, Aesthetica Art Prize, New Mexico Museum of Art, and Beijing’s Art Nova 100 with reviews in LA Times, Hyperallergic, and Huffington Post. Recipient of fellowships like Yaddo, Uniondoc Summer Lab, Artpace San Antonio, and Vermont Studios. Her awards include the 2018 Special Arte Laguna Prize, Best Regional Filmmaker at 2017 Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Golden Reel Awards for Short Documentary.
Contact: alisa.y.yang@gmail.com