Christine Wong Yap

Christine Wong Yap (she/they) is a visual artist and social practitioner. Currently, she is serving as the Neighborhood Visiting Artist at Stanford University. She specializes in hyperlocal, participatory research projects that gather and amplify grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental well-being. Her projects combine drawing, lettering, printmaking, publishing, and textiles with community engagement, inclusive design, and public art and activations. Over the past 16 years, she has developed over 20 multidisciplinary projects exploring aspects of psychological well-being with partners such as the California College of the Arts, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley (San Francisco Bay Area); Times Square Arts and For Freedoms (New York); and the Wellcome Trust (London). She holds a BFA and MFA in printmaking from the California College of the Arts. Wong Yap was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she continues to live and work, following a decade of living in New York City.

Photo by Nicholas Bruno, Courtesy of California College of the Arts.