Emilia Yang (She/her/hers/ella) is a Central American artist, memory organizer, and researcher. Her creative practice utilizes expanded forms of media to create community- based feminist, anti-racist, and transformative justice memory projects and futures. Her practice-based research explores the role of memory, violence, emotions, performance, and participation in the political imagination. Emilia has received multiple fellowships and awards. Currently, she is a 2025 NEW INC member, the New Museum Incubator in their “Social Architecture track”. In 2024, she was selected as the Hunting Family Faculty Fellow at U-M Institute of the Humanities. In 2023, she was an Arts for Gender Equality Fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation and CARE USA. Her artworks have been exhibited in international spaces such as the Resistance Biennial in Guatemala, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) and the Museum of Jade and Pre-Columbian Culture in Costa Rica, Casa América, the Museum and Vanguard Art Center Neomudéjar in Spain, Le Commun Contemporary Art Building in Geneva, and the Games and the New Media Summit at Tribeca Film Festival. Yang earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Media Arts + Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and her Masters of Arts in Communications at Pennsylvania State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design with a focus on Anti-Racism by Design; emiliayang.org
This lecture is partially funded in collaboration with REDCAT and Teiger Foundation.
