Christine Wong Yap

Christine Wong Yap focuses on manifesting psychological well-being through creative collaboration. Her cooperative art projects allow participants to explore specific dimensions of happiness: belonging, connection, and identity. Participants in Wong Yap’s process not only generate an artistic product, they also reflect on the impact of belonging, connection, and identity on subjective wellbeing. Wong Yap holds a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Queens Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum of Art, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. She is currently a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace artist-in-residence. In 2018–2019, she was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Othering & Belonging Institute (formerly the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society) at University of California, Berkeley.