Legacy Art Gallery and Visual Arts Visiting Speaker series presents

Marlene Yuen

Recorded Jan 15, 2025

Marlene Yuen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works on the unceded and ancestral home territories
of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her current focus is on illustrations, prints, comics, zines and handmade books.

Marlene’s books and zines have been retained in special collections archives nationally and internationally. She has also created artworks about Vancouver’s historic Chinatown and Chinese Canadian workers for museums, galleries and public art programs.

Her mural, The Journeys Here, will be part of a traveling exhibition, Odysseys and Migration, at the Royal BC Museum opening in April 2025. She is currently working on a comic publication, Hak Chu Pak Chu, for Burnaby Art.