Monyee Chau

Monyee Chau is an Asian American artist based out of Seattle, Washington.

Background Chau's ancestry is from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Chau graduated from the Cornish College of the Arts in 2018.

Career In 2020, Monyee Chau designed a poster that went viral on Instagram with the phrase "Yellow Peril Supports Black Power" with a black panther and a yellow tiger after the murder of George Floyd. The post initially hit over 50,000 likes but received mixed reaction online.

In 2023, Chau was appointed Artist in Residence for the Seattle Public Library. Chau also had an artist residency alongside artist Jae Eun Kim at Flower Flower, an all queer, all trans Asian and Pasifika artist collective, where they conducted interviews with Seattle Chinatown-International District's CID Coalition elders and then created their portraits. Those portraits were later displayed from April 2024 to mid 2025 at the Wing Luke Museum for the exhibition "Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle: Conversations with Our Elders."