Wayne Yung was born in Edmonton, Canada, in 1971 to a Chinese immigrant family. After moving to Vancouver in 1994 and Hong Kong in 2000, he moved to Germany in 2001, where he lived in Hamburg and Cologne, before settling in Berlin. As a writer, performer and video artist, he has explored issues of race and identity from a queer Chinese-Canadian perspective. For several years, he was an active member of Video In Studios, an artist-run centre for video and media art in Vancouver. As a curator, educator and collaborator, he has been committed to supporting emerging and independent artists in Canada, the USA and Germany.

He received a Diploma of Visual Art at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton in 1992, and a Diploma in Audiovisual Media (postgraduate studies) at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 2007. Since his first video release in 1994, he has travelled extensively to screen his work at film festivals around the world, including solo exhibitions at Berlin’s Raumerweiterungshalle (2009), Edmonton’s Latitude 53 Gallery (2008), Tel Aviv’s LGBT Film Festival (2008), Vancouver’s Out on Screen Festival (2001), Seoul’s Queer Film & Video Festival (2000) and Toronto’s Reel Asian Film Festival (1999).

His awards include the jury prize for best film/video at the Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival (2005), jury prize for best short at the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (2004), and jury prize for best short at the Chicago Underground Film Festival (2001). His works have been purchased for library use at Concordia University of Montreal, University of Wisconsin, Bryn Mawr College, University of Illinois, and Loyola Marymount University. As a curator, he has organized programs at festivals and independent venues in Vancouver, Portland (Oregon), Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam.

Artist Code: 637