Temple University

Yvonne Lung is an Asian-American social practice artist whose work is about social change through interaction, learning what we have in common by using her heritage as a vehicle to address shared experiences despite cultural differences.

Co-founder of Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, she has had several artist residencies, including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Many Mini Residency, Art Omi International Artist Residency, and the Asian Arts Initiative’s Social Practice Lab Artist-in-Residence. She has received the Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change Grant twice, two Velocity Fund awards, Fleisher Art Memorial’s Wind Challenge Prize, and a Jackpot Grant by the Nevada Arts Council.

In addition to teaching at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, she is the operations manager at Asian Americans United, an AAPI social justice non-profit organization working for the AAPI community in the Philadelphia region. She has also worked as a Mandarin interpreter for the U.S. immigration court and U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the East Coast. She is the co-captain of the Philadelphia Chinatown Dragon Boat Team, which she has been a member of since 2009, and a founding member of Radical Asian American Womxn’s Collective (RAAWC).

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
BFA, Texas Tech University