Partners for Progress 2024: Marlene Tseng Yu: Art Gallery Partner of the Year

MARLENE TSENG YU
FOUNDER, RAIN FOREST ART FOUNDATION
Marlene Tseng Yu was born in Taiwan in 1937 and came to the U.S. in 1963. From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967. She taught art at Denver University in Colorado in 1967 to 1968. Since 1994, she has been on the Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1995, she has curated exhibitions for the new art movement, "Forces of Nature." Marlene is Founder and Curator of the Rain Forest Art Foundation (2001 to present). In 2014, Marlene established her own museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Marlene Yu Museum.
Her exhibit, Elements of Life/Forces of Nature, from 2005, is currently on display at the QCC Art Gallery as part of the Gallery's permanent collection.