William Yang Seeing and Being Seen
![William Yang, Australia b.1943 / Self Portrait #5 2008 / Digital print / Collection and ©: William Yang](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m2obzhc2/production/7d667faf41c37e5266bd498a9f77ab7a48dd32a5-1920x1286.jpg?rect=0,172,1920,942&w=320&h=157&q=90&fit=crop)
William Yang, Australia b.1943 / Self Portrait #5 2008 / Digital print / Collection and ©: William Yang / View full image
When
27 Mar – 22 Aug 2021
Where
Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery 4
About
Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTIQ+ scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the present. Yang’s photography is informed by the cultural and political pressures of growing up as a gay man from a Chinese immigrant family in north Queensland.
This exhibition is a major survey of Yang’s work, which traces his career from documentary photography through to explorations of cultural and sexual identities and his depictions of landscape. Yang integrates a photographic practice with writing, video and performance.