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Leonard Yang is a fine artist, community organizer, teaching artist and avid road cyclist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Singapore, Leonard has exhibited widely across the state of New York and abroad.
As a fine artist, Leonard’s most recent solo exhibition ‘Asian Bleeding Heart’ at the Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC), NY, has been featured in Chinese-American Newspapers Sing Tao Daily News USA, US-China Press, and World Journal. His work has been featured in various juried exhibitions including Silvermine Gallery and Bowery Gallery and he has been curated into group shows at Gallery MC, Atlantic Gallery, Superfine Art Fair, and Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco. He has held Residencies with the National Gallery of Indonesia, The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS), and The Visual Arts Development Association (VADA) Singapore, Vermont Studio Center, VT, Millay Arts, NY, and The Alex Brown Foundation, IA.
Leonard’s most recent collaborative project, ‘Roadmap to the Future’ was created during his Teaching Artist Residency with ProjectArt USA in collaboration with his K-12 students, assistants and volunteers at the Glen Oaks Library in Queens, NY. He has also been awarded grants by the National Arts Council (Singapore), and the Goethe Institute Jakarta, Indonesia to realize community-centered public projects in these countries.
Outside of Art, Leonard is an avid road cyclist and regularly leads bike rides around New York with the New York Cycle Club. He has biked some 12000 miles across the state of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and
This year, Leonard’s work has been included in the NYC Design Festival, and the I Like Your Work Spring Catalog Exhibition, as well as the ProjectArt USA Resident Artist Exhibition–where Leonard exhibited a collaborative artwork created during his Teaching Residency at the Glen Oaks Library in Queens.
Leonard holds an MFA in Fine Art from Parsons, The New School for Design, NY (2019) and a BFA from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2015).