A native of Taiwan, Yah-Hann (Erric) Yang graduated from the Academy of Art University’s School of Fine Art in San Francisco with his MFA in Painting in 2007. Yang focused on his objective to “paint from the heart” beginning in his childhood, and learned the important foundations of classical technique at a prestigious arts-focused high school in Taiwan. As a graduate student at the Academy of Art University, Yang sharpened his aesthetic of exploring deeply felt, personal emotions in an entirely abstract format. “While at the Academy of Art University my style began to develop to not only paint color, but to include meaning inside of my work.” Yang has earned many abstract competition awards in both national and international category. His textured approach to abstraction is attracting a growing number of collectors in Asia and the United States.

Yang is currently teaching at Artistic Art Studio in California. Being an art instructor, his goal is to teach students how to appreciate art, how to look into art to understand the meaning behind canvas, and how to be an artist. He says “Art is a language that is able to communicate with people and that is how I express feelings through art .”