Yao Xiao
Yao Xiao is an artist born and raised in Tianjin, China and based in New York City. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and the author of graphic novel Everything Is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid. Her illustrations and writing have been published in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Catapult, Lit Hub, and Autostraddle.
Yao Xiao makes art about straddling and bridging different worlds and navigating difficult memories. Her work blends emotion, experience, and imagination together with visual imagery, starting conversations about the complex inferiority of first generation immigrants.
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