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Youxin Yang is a
world-renowned Chinese painter and filmmaker as well as an award-winning
scientist working in cancer research. Youxin started her career in China and
then advanced her education in France where she was awarded a prize from the
Association for the Study of Pediatric Pathology in 2000 for her work on the
WT1 Gene.
Her paintings have been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions at
the Art Museum of Nanjing, China, Espace Richelieu in Paris, France,
L’Essence Art Gallery in Boston, MA, and the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical
Chinese Garden in Vancouver, Canada.
Youxin Yang won the Grand Jury award at the New York International Art
Festival in 2005, and her series of calligraphic paintings won the Featured
Member Artist award at the 2008 National Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA)
Featured Artist Competition. As a filmmaker, Ms. Yang has received 24 awards
worldwide, including the Top (Platinum) Remi Award at the 37th WorldFest
Houston and the Best Drama award in the prestigious New York Film Festival
for her feature film entitled “Feuille” (2004). Youxin Yang’s art won the
prestigious American Art Awards ’2013 Stoney Award’, an honor meant to
recognize the most overall wins by one artist. Recent Juried Competitions,
opening September 2013, have placed Ms. Yang’s work at The Highland Museum &
Discovery Art Center in Ashland, Kentucky and The Alexandria Museum of Art
in Alexandria, Louisiana.