Living in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Kristin NG Yang was born in 1970 in Shandong, China, where she returns frequently to visit and exhibit.
A graduate of the Fine Art Academy, Beijing, Yang came to South Africa to study for her MAFA in Visual Arts, graduating in 2004. She has traveled widely in the USA and Europe and has exhibited frequently in Italy, South Africa, and in Beijing, Shanghai, and elsewhere in China.
Yang’s artistic versatility and technical skill enable her to explore her vision through any medium: drawing, oils, watercolor, and printing.
She draws on her dual Chinese and South African identity to reflect on questions of migration, nature, agency, and identity.