Born in Taiwan in 1961, Alice Yang emigrated to the US when she was 15. After graduating from Yale, where she majored in Chinese art history, Yang did stints as an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York, before joining the New Museum of Contemporary Art--the standard-bearer for avant-garde art in the city--where she became assistant curator.
一九六一年生於台灣的楊蕙如，十五歲時移民美國，在耶魯大學主修中國藝術史畢業後，先後在大都會博物館及紐約現代美術館實習，接著進入紐約前衛藝術重鎮的「新當代美術館」擔任副策展人，成為當時美國藝術行政圈內職銜最高的華裔人士，並策畫許多以美國亞裔及華人藝術家的展覽。