William Yang is an important Australian performance artist and photographer.

Over the past fifteen years Yang has been doing performance pieces with slide and video projections, and himself as compassionate witness. Sadness, Friends of Dorothy, Shadows, Blood Links and most recently Objects of Meditation have toured extensively in Australia and overseas.

In his photographs and stage shows Yang essentially works as a storyteller, a photojournalist of his own life. In the acclaimed Sadness he weaves together key themes - his Chinese Heritage and rituals of dying and death in Sydney.

In 2009, William Yang presents a commissioned installation, Life Lines, at the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland as part of a group survey exhibition The China Project. This work is in response to the architecture of the gallery and will reflect Yang's Chinese heritage and personal histories.

In 2008, Claiming China an exhibition of photographic images accompanied with hand written text anecdotally reflecting on his experiences as an openly gay person with Chinese Heritage, was shown at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. Also during 2008 Yang exhibited William Yang Portraits at Global Art Projects and Sofitel Melbourne and was included in the group survey show Yin-Yang: China in Australia, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney. A retrospective exhibition of Yang's photographic work, Diaries was held in 1998 at the New South Wales State Library. Miscellaneous Obsessions, a collection of his photographic works from the past 20 years, was shown at Stills Gallery in October 2002 including familiar and new themes - friends, food and the Gay and Lesbian community and was re-presented at Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT as Miscellaneous Obsessions 2 in 2008.

William Yang. Selected Photographs 1998 - 2003, incorporating images from Miscellaneous Obsessions and portraits, was exhibited at the Wollongong City Gallery in 2003 and is on tour throughout Australia until 2007.

These images are a selection from the artist's portfolio. More images are available for viewing in the gallery's Print Room