Audrey Yang
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Audrey Yang is a second-generation Chinese American maker from Buffalo Grove, Illinois. She approaches artmaking as refuge for “throwaway” materials—snack wrappers, used kitchen gloves, old bedsheets, dryer lint—and turbulent emotions—anger, disappointment, grief, terror. These shape and constitute our lived experience as much as any prized possession or joy. In salvaging the waste we produce, it becomes a source. In acknowledging the distress we feel, it becomes a guide.
EDUCATION
2027 BFA in Art Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023 Buffalo Grove High School, Buffalo Grove, IL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025-26 Peer Mentor, SAIC Chicago Fellows Program, Chicago, IL
2026 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Contemporary Practices Department, Chicago, IL (Core Studio Practices II – Susan Giles & AJ McClenon, Spring 2026)
2026 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Adult Continuing Education, Chicago, IL (Explorations in Acrylic Painting, Intensive – Helen Oh, Winter 2026)
2023-25 Program Assistant, SAIC Visiting Artists Program, Chicago, IL
2025 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Contemporary Practices Department, Chicago, IL (Core Studio: Transfers – Laura Davis, Fall 2025)
2025 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program, Chicago, IL (From Drawing To Painting – Ömürhan Alptekin, Summer 2025)
2025 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program, Chicago, IL (Drawing Studio – Herman Aguirre, Summer 2025)
2025 Studio Facilitator Intern, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL (Summer 2025)
2025 Mural Arts Intern, Green Star Movement, Chicago, IL (Spring 2025)
2025 Classroom Assistant, SAIC Middle School Program, Chicago, IL (Drawing Studio – Ömürhan Alptekin, Spring 2025)
2024 Classroom Assistant, SAIC Middle School Program, Chicago, IL (Painting Studio – Melanie Brown, Fall 2024)
2024 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program, Chicago, IL (From Drawing to Painting – Amanda Calobrisi, Summer 2024)
2024 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program Summer Institute, Chicago, IL (Experimental Drawing – Stevie Hanley, Summer 2024)
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2025 Group Exhibition, Divine Sublime, Art City, Chicago, IL
2025 Class Exhibition, PxM: variable, 280 Building, Chicago, IL
2025 Group Exhibition, us., 280 Building, Chicago, IL
2025 Open Studio Group Exhibition, Be Still, Cornelia Arts Building, Chicago, IL
2024 Linda and Vincent Buonanno Contemporary Practices Scholarship Nominee
2024 Artbash Site/Sight & Book Arts, Sharp Building, Chicago, IL
2024 Group Exhibition, We are our own healers. We are our own medicine., SAIC Wellness Center, Chicago, IL
2023 SAIC Presidential Scholarship Recipient
2023 IHSAE Senior Scholarship Exhibition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Solo Exhibition, Remembrance, One Grove Gallery, Buffalo Grove, IL
2022 IHSAE Northern Exhibition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Hallway Gallery, Belin-Blank Center, Iowa City, IA
2021-23 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2x American Visions Nominee, 3 Gold Keys, 2 Silver Keys