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Yu Yan is a visual artist based in New York. Primarily working with research-based projects and site-specific installations, she follows intuitive research pursuits across a variety of disciplines and disparate systems of knowledge in natural and political landscapes. Her work explores the interplay between space, identity, and memory, focusing on immigration and the diaspora community.

Education

2019-2022  Harvard University, MDes., Art, Design, and the Public Domain Program

2014-2018  Smith College, B.A., Studio Arts; Economics

 

Residency

2020.10-2021.2  The Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist-in-Residence Program, Shanghai, China

Selected Exhibitions

2023.6. Sight/Geist, The 8th Floor, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, U.S.

2022.12  Utopia, The Holy Art, Athens, Greece

2022.10  The One International Digital Art Contes, Forum Gallery, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

2022.9   Materialism in Reminiscing, the BLANC gallery, New York, U.S.

2022.10  The Hand at Fenix Arts, Fayetteville, AR, U.S.

2022.9   Color 2022 Juried Exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea

2022.3   It’s All Fun Time, Safehouse 1&2, London, UK

2022.5   BLOOM!, R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA, U.S.

2022.1   Stem: Anhui Young Contemporary Artists Archives Show, Yi Art Institute, Hefei, China

2021.12 PPPPRESS, Wiesner Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.

2021.10 Self-introduction, 40 Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge, U.S.

2021.6  Spectacle of Remnants, Harvard ChinaGSD, online

2021.1  Wanderers on the Bund, Fuji X Space, Shanghai, China

2021.1  REDIRECTING, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China

2020.8  Adventures of 500 Film Cameras, Fuji X Space, Shanghai, China

2020.5  Windows of Harvard, Harvard Art Office, Cambridge, U.S.

2020.4  Pandemic, 40 Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge, U.S.

2019.10 HOME-ing, 40 Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge, U.S.

2019.8  Second Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival, Fukuoka, Japan

2019.8   Out of Focus /Ambiguë, Vanities Gallery, Paris, France

2019.7  International Photography Exhibition, Glasgow International Photography Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2019.2  Here, There, World Trade Center, New York, U.S.

2019.1   Solo Exhibition: Epidermis, Yi Art Institute, Hefei, China

2018.12  Surface, Loosen Art Gallery, Rome, Italy

2018.11  First Harvard Biennial, Harvard Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, U.S.

2018.11  Conceptual, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece

2018.4  Always Been(), Jonatta Gallery, Northampton, USA

2018.1  Now Feast, Jonaotta Gallery, Northampton, USA

2017.8  Solo Exhibition: Ah:, Globe Hostel, Hefei, China

Publications

2022.12  The Digital Chroma Agency

2023.1    Al-Tiba9 Artist Interview

2022.11   LiTang, Artist Interview

2020.4    Orenda Art Works, Art En+During

2019.12   Issue 03 Harvard MDes Test Print, OUTTASPACE

2018.12   F-Stop Magazine, Issue#92. Artist Feature

2018.11   Blacklist Journal, vol. 3, Brandeis University. Chinatown Archive featured as the cover

2019.11   A5 Magazine, Portfolio #20. Artist Feature

2017.4    Voices and Visions Journal, vol. 8, Smith College

Awards

2019    Second MEIHODO International Youth Visual Arts Festival Nominee

2018    Megan Hart Jones Studio Art Prize

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