Yida Wang is Associate Professor in Art at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.  As a person of Asian origin living in Western society, her work examines essential connections and relationships between individuality and diverse cultural influences and transformations that relate to the cross-pollination and disjunction of her bi-cultural existence. The scope of her practices across diverse areas from representational approaches to conceptual and philosophic explorations; the technical investigations expand from traditional mediums to various non-traditional applications and substrates, and the visual presentations include two dimensional drawings and paintings along with three dimensional installations

Yida Wang is the recipient of Acquisition Award, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, HI (2008); Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, HI (2006); The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation in Visual Art Award, San Francisco, CA (2002); The Catharine E.B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, HI (2001); The Baciu Visual Art Award, HI (2000).

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