Yang Keyang (1914-2010) was born in Suichang, Zhejiang Province. He studied wood engraving with various masters. Having studied the cartoons of Feng Zikai, Yang Keyang began to produce woodcut prints in 1937 under the direction of Ma Da. From 1941, Yang was involved in the anti-Japanese woodcut movement and produced and traded woodcut tools, and also edited woodcut books and journals. Yang joined the All-China Wood Engraving Association Movement in Shanghai in 1946. 

After 1949, Yang was involved in editorial work at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House for more than 40 years and established the Banhua Yishu (The Art of Printmaking) journal in 1980. Yang was a well-known wood engraver.