Works such as "Paris Syndrome" (2007) addressed issues of desire and alienation in modern exurban China and elsewhere. Many of his projects incorporate architecture and space design, such as "GfZK Garden" (2006), "Cafe Paris Syndrome" (2007), "Hotel Paris Syndrome" (2011), and "a proposal for a public space - a cinema" (2012). In 2017, he designed The Café Leopold at Leopold Museum in Vienna. Yang has participated in numerous international biennials, including Manifesta 2012, Venice 2005, Liverpool 2006, Taipei 2008, Gwangju 2012 and 2018, Bangkok 2018, and Sydney 2018. In 2009, Yang co-founded the Taipei Contemporary Art Center. Yang published the first three volumes of "The Monograph Project" in 2015, and the second three volumes in 2018. The project covered 18 years of the artist's work, and was completed with two principle collaborators, the curator Barbara Steiner and the designer Oliver Klimpel. In 2018, Art Sonje Center in Seoul held a solo exhibition for Yang, titled "The Overview Perspective". In January 2019, Yang participated in a panel discussion at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna with Ai Weiwei, Uli Sigg, and Ying Miao. In February 2019, Kunsthaus Graz opened a major retrospective of Yang's work, titled "The Artist, the Work, and the Exhibition", which also included work by Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Yonemoto, Koki Tanaka, siren eun young jung, Lee Kit, and others. Yang is a member of Vienna Secession. He is represented by Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou), ShugoArts (Tokyo), and Galerie Janda (Vienna).