YIDA WANG
Assistant Professor

Yida Wang was born in China and received her MFA from the University of Hawai‘i in 1994. S works with both undergraduate and graduate students and teaches lower and upper division courses in the areas of drawing, painting, figure drawing and Far Eastern brush art. Yida Wang’s current works include drawings, paintings and installations. Her research 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.

Yida Wang has participated in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of following awards: 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)..