# Danny Yung
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{{Short description|Hong Kong artist (born 1943)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Danny Yung
| image = Danny Yung.tiff
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|11|21}}
| birth_place = Shanghai, China
| alma_mater = [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University)
| known_for = Arts, Experimental Filmmaking
| notable_works = * Tears of Barren Hill (2008) Stage Sisters (2010)
| caption = Danny Yung
}}
'''Danny Ning Tsun Yung''' ({{lang-zh|t=榮念曾}}) (born November 21, 1943)[{{Cite web |title=Danny Yung |url=https://staff.washington.edu/kendo/yung.html |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=staff.washington.edu}}] is a Hong Kong artist, cultural worker,[{{Cite web |title=Danny YUNG |url=https://fukuoka-prize.org/en/topics/detail/2efd9087-a22e-40a9-a7b5-a8f7791eeafb |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=Fukuoka Prize |language=en}}] experimental filmmaker, producer, choreographer, mathematician, and urban planner. He is widely recognized as an experimental art pioneer and one of the most influential artists in Hong Kong. He currently serves as chair of the Hong Kong Institute for Contemporary Culture, as well as a part-time member of Central Policy Unit, a Hong Kong government [think tank](/source/think_tank). He is a co-founder of The Basement Workshop, an Asian American political and arts organization for writers, visual artists, dancers, and activists.[{{Cite web |title=Danny Yung {{!}} The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage |url=https://www.pewcenterarts.org/contributor/danny-yung |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=www.pewcenterarts.org |language=en}}]
== Career ==
In 1979, Yung returned to Hong Kong and held his first one-man cartoon exhibition. He became involved in all aspects of the arts, including experimental films, cartoons, conceptual art, installation, video and performing arts. He formed the [avant-garde arts](/source/Avant-garde) collective [Zuni Icosahedron](/source/Zuni_Icosahedron) in 1982[{{Cite web |title=Co-artistic director (page of www.zuni.org.hk) |url=https://www.zuni.org.hk/new/zuni/web/default.php?cmd=co_artistic_directors |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=www.zuni.org.hk}}] and has served as [Artistic Director](/source/Artistic_director) of Zuni since 1985.[{{Cite web |title=Danny Yung Papers: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids |url=https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/tamwag/tam_817/ |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=findingaids.library.nyu.edu |language=en-us}}]
In 1971, Danny Yung, Eleanor Yung, Peter Pan, Frank Ching and Rocky Chin established The Basement Workshop[{{Cite web |title=basement.html |url=https://staff.washington.edu/kendo/basement.html |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=staff.washington.edu}}] in New York City, NY which was the first Asian American arts and cultural organization on the East Coast. Funded by the Ford Foundation, Basement Workshop was an outgrowth of the research and data compiled for the Chinatown Report 1969.