Sunny Apinchapong-Yang

Sunny arrived in the United States in 1979 where he received his first art instruction. He attended the Art Center College of Design and Cal State University Los Angeles, earning both B.A. and M.A. degrees in fine art.

In 1977, Sunny began studying painting on scholarship at the Sergei Bongart School of Art in Los Angeles. He later worked as Mr.Bongart’s assistant at the L.A. school and at his summer workshops in Idaho.

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Sunny Apinchapong-Yang was born in Bangkok Thailand, where his Chinese parents settled after the war.

Sunny has won numerous awards for his paintings in regional competitions and held private workshops around the country.

Sunny is a Signature member of California Art Club and also the member of Oil Painters of America.

From 1992-2020, Sunny worked for a few Animation Studios such as Don Bluth Animation, Disney Studio, Dreamworks, and Sony, where he worked on many well-known films.

“The use of craft in any medium is to pay homage to one’s teacher and is the basis of all important work within any art forms. Couple with the releasing of one’s subconscious impulse into that specific form is in my opinion the most valuable of all the many attributes of the artist.

Sunny Apinchapong-Yang is able to institute craft with his sensitive understanding of the sub-conscious and can best be described by one word… Master.”

*Gene Hackman (Actor) Los Angeles 1990

“The paintings of Sunny Apinchapong-Yang were unknown to me before I saw them in Dublin a few years ago. They provided a sharp contrast to the present Irish fashion. In portraitures he has a marked gift, and when I saw his exhibition in Dublin my money would have been on his future as a portrait painter… at first glance. On further consideration, I decided that his scenic pictures are at presents happiest.” Dublin, Ireland 1989

*Terence de Ver White: Author and Editor for Irish Time