Janice Yang was originally born in Connecticut but moved to South Korea when she was three and came back to the U.S. at the age of sixteen. This cross-cultural experience has had an enormous impact on her life and her work. She became interested in exploring identity in the context of immigrant people who are caught between two different cultures. Often the subjects in her paintings are children of immigrant families that encounter cultural tensions and face challenges in finding the sense of true belonging. Janice places her subjects in the settings of their everyday lives and juxtapose them with their inner feelings and dreams to find their identity as seen through their symbolic objects and patterns around them.

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