May Yang is a Tulsa based artist, printer, designer, and muralist.

May graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 earning a BFA in graphic design with a minor in printmaking. While there, she interned for Dolphin Press & Print, the school's print workshop, where she assisted in printing editions for Jon Rappleye, Jane Kent and Faith Ringgold. Continuing her interest in collaborative printmaking, May attended the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, New Mexico and earned her Professional Printer’s Certificate. May has participated in a number of juried and invitational group shows in Oklahoma and beyond. She participated in a number of group shows with Tulsa’s ETA collective, a group of early to mid-career artists working in a variety of mediums, until the group’s dissolution in 2018. Following a long hiatus from creating personal work, May fell in love with painting murals and found it to be a gateway to developing a creative practice again.

Outside of art, May is the owner of Flash Flood Print Studios, an artist-led, community-driven screen printing shop.

Selected Exhibitions

SOLO
April 2024 – Solitary Signals, Positive Space Gallery, Tulsa OK
January 2018 – Aperitif, the Water Co, Tulsa OK
August 2015 – Current Works, STASH, Norman OK
October 2014 – Souvenir, Mainline Art Bar, Tulsa OK
September 2012 – Trophy Life, Dwelling Spaces, Tulsa OK
December 2011 – Gesture, @1619, Oklahoma City OK
October 2010 – American Dreaming (Momentum Tulsa Spotlight Project), Living Arts, Tulsa OK

JURIED, INVITATIONAL, GROUP
January 2024 – Retrospective Momentum, BancFirst Gallery, Oklahoma City OK
August 2023 – Oh! Tulsa, Living Arts, Tulsa OK
February 2023 – Hilary McQueen + Marissa Childers + May Yang, DNA Galleries, Oklahoma City OK
2022 & 2022 – Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s 24 Works on Paper, Oklahoma Traveling Exhibition
October 2021 – Abstract Remix: Mural Exhibition, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City OK
March 2017 – PAC 40th Anniversary Exhibition, PAC Art Gallery, Tulsa OK
January 2017 – ETA: Vibrant Year, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City OK
February 2016 – ETA: Underground, Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville AR
December 2015 – ETA: Are We There Yet? Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa OK
October 2015 – Jason Lockhart & May Yang: Current Works, Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, Tulsa OK
January 2013 – Processed: May Yang, Denny Schmickle, & Live4This, Living Arts, Tulsa OK
December 2011 – Emerging Artists, Norman Arts Council, Norman OK
March 2011 – Oklahoma Friendly, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City OK
May 2009 – IPCNY New Prints Spring 2009 (curated by Polly Apfelbaum), International Print Center New York, NYC

Honors

2022 - Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Fellowship Awardee, Guest Curator Courtney Brooks
2011 – Juror’s Choice, 24 Works on Paper
2011 – Juror’s Choice, Oklahoma Friendly
2010 – Momentum Tulsa Spotlight Artist