Sector Leads and Advisory Committees  /  Marlene Yuen

Marlene Yuen

Multidisciplinary Artist
Visual Arts Sector Advisory Committee

Marlene Yuen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (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. In 2021, her short-run publication, Ho Sun Hing Printers, received an honourable mention from the City of Vancouver Book Awards program. It is about Canada’s first Chinese-English letterpress print shop. 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 touring exhibition, Odysseys and Migration, at the Royal British Columbia Museum in February 2025. Marlene works as a studio technician at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is also known as Ada’s mom.