William Yang: Aotearoa Art Fair 2026

Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin is proud to bring to Auckland select works from the decades-spanning archive of Queensland-born, Eora/Sydney-based photographer, performance artist and cultural pioneer William Yang. Awarded the Legacy Prize at this year’s Asia Pacific Arts Awards, Yang has been among the most important and prolific chroniclers of Australian life for more than 50 years, capturing with empathy, candour and clarity the celebrated and the marginalised, the public and the personal. From his works of social documentary – lensed at the front lines of the parties, protests and performances through which Australian LGBTQIA+ identity, autonomy and community were expressed and defined – to his intimate, diaristic portraits of family, friends and lovers, often set amid the ravages of the AIDS era, Yang has built an extraordinary body of work that now stands among the most significant social archives of the past half-century.

For acquisition enquiries please contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au