About Sunny Apinchapong-Yang

"The use of craft in any medium is to pay homage to one's teacher and is the basis of all important work within any art form. Couple with the releasing of one's subconscious impulses into that specific form is my opinion the most valuable of all the many attributes of the artist.
Sunny Apinchapong is able to institute craft with his sensitive understanding of the subconscious and can best be described by one word...Master."

Gene Hackman

"The painting of Sunny Apinchapong were unknown to me before I saw them in Dublin a few years ago. They provided a sharp contrast to the present Irish fashion. In portraitures he has a marked gift, and when I saw his exhibition in Dublin my money would have been on his future as a portrait painter... at first glance. On further consideration, I decided that his scenic pictures are at present his happiest." Ireland,1989

Terrence de Vere White
Author and Editor for Irish Times,
Vice-chairman of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Sunny Apinchapong-Yang was born in Bangkok, Thailand, where his Chinese parents settled after World War II. He arrived in the United States in 1970 where he received his first formal art instruction. He attended Art Center College of Design, and California State University,Los Angeles, earning both B.A and M.A degrees in Fine Arts
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In 1977, he began studying painting on scholarship at the Sergei Bongart School of Art in Los Angeles, and later worked as Mr. Bongart's assistant at the Los Angeles school and at the Summer workshops in Idaho. From 1987 to 1989 Sunny lived in Dublin, Ireland and participated in anexhibition sponsored by the Royal Academy of Arts. Sunny also had a one-man show at the Polo-one Gallery in Dublin. He has won numerous awards for his paintings in regional competitions and has held many private workshops around the country. In addition, he has taught at Brandes Art Institute in Los Angeles, California, the Businessmen's Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Fechin Institute in Taos, New Mexico.

He has held solo exhibitions in 1992, 1996 and most recently 2003 at the Moresberg Gallery in Los Angeles and in 1984, a one-man exhibition as well as, 1991 a duo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, and also participated with many group exhibitions, including theannual Gold Medal show with California Art Club at the Pasadena Historical Museum.Galleries that have exhibited Sunny's paintings are: The Saks Galleries, Denver; The Taos Art Gallery, Taos, NM: The Amparro Gallery, Scottsdale: Esther Wells Collections, Laguna Beach.
Sunny has been working for Walt Disney Studios since 1992, as a Background Artist in the Feature Animation Department. Most recently he has been working as an Art Director at the Disney TV Animation division. He is a resident of Glendale, California where he lives with hiswife Pennee and their two children Tess and Jason.

Sunny Apinchapong-Yang is a Signature Member of the California Art Club and a member of its Advisory Board. He is also amember of theOil Painters of America.

Feature Articles: 1985 The Artist's Magazine and 1990 , 1998 De-Chun Magazine, Thailand.