Leonard Yang is a Singaporean artist based in New York and Singapore. Utilizing axonometric perspective, romantic tones, luminous hues, thick and thin glazes of paint, he creates paintings that describe the changing social landscape we face today: Man-made dwellings, monuments, apartment blocks, and architecture meet minutely detailed landscapes comprising trees, rocks, sky, sea, flowers, and other little observations in the natural environment.
These paintings are liminal spaces that reflect on places of healing, ethnic identity, sustainability, native histories, geographical boundaries, as well as the emotional connection towards an adopted home vis-à-vis one’s ethnographical place of origin.
His work has been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICAS), Singapore; The Visual Arts Development Association (VADA), Singapore; Dongdaemun Design Centre, Korea; the National Gallery Indonesia; Atlantic Gallery, NY; Gallery MC, NY; and La Bodega Gallery, NY. He has held residencies at the Alex Brown Foundation, Des Moines, IA in 2023/4, Millay Arts in upstate New York in 2022, and the Goethe Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2017.
Leonard studied at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (BFA, 2015), and Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, NY (MFA, 2019).