Education
2022 MDes, with disctinction, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
2018 BA, Studio Art, Economics, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Professional Experience
2022-2024 Advancement Associate Manager, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2021-2024 Artist Coordinator and Research Assistant of Krzysztof Wodiczko, New York, NY
2022 Junior Project Manager, Science Consulate of Switzerland in China, Shanghai, China
2018 Communications Work Scholar, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2018 Archive Intern, Magnum Photos, New York, NY
2017-2018 Archive and PR Assistant, Fou Gallery, New York, NY
Awards and Prizes
2025 Emerging Artists of New Mexico
2025 Marion & Kathryn Crissey Award
2019 Second MEIHODO International Youth Visual Arts Festival Nominee
2018 Megan Hart Jones Studio Art Prize
Exhibitions and Screenings
2026.9 Upcoming: Solo Exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2026.2 Upcoming: Paradise, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2026.10 The ArtsFest Film Fest, Pelham, NY
2026.10 International Music Film&Video Festival URTIcanti, Bari, Puglia, Italy
2025.10 Photometira in Motion, Photometria International Photography Festival, Ioannina, Greece
2025.7 SURFACE, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2025.6 Annual Juneteenth Exhibition, City Hall, Albuquerque, NM
2025.5 So It Goes, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2025.3 SONA Immersive Storytelling Festival, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2025.1 Nikon Film Festival, Paris, France
2024.9 Sound 2024, Leicester Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
2023.6 Sight/Geist, The 8th Floor, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
2022.12 Utopia, The Holy Art, Athens, Greece
2022.10 The One International Digital Art Contes, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
2022.10 The Hand at Fenix Arts, Fayetteville, AR
2022.9 Materialism in Reminiscing, the BLANC gallery, New York, NY
2022.9 Color 2022 Juried Exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, Korea
2022.5 BLOOM!, R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
2022.3 It’s All Fun Time, Safehouse 1&2, London, UK
2022.1 Stem: Anhui Young Contemporary Artists Show, Yi Art Institute, Hefei, China
2021.12 PPPPRESS, Wiesner Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2021.10 Self-introduction, 40 Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2021.1 Wanderers on the Bund, Fuji X Space, Shanghai, China
2021.1 REDIRECTING, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China
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 Photography Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2019.2 Here, There, World Trade Center, New York, NY
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, MA
2018.11 Conceptual, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2018.4 Always Been(), Jonatta Gallery, Northampton, MA
2018.1 Now Feast, Jonatta Gallery, Northampton, MA
2017.8 Solo Exhibition: Ah, Globe Hostel, Hefei, China
Residency
2021 The Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist-in-Residence Program, Shanghai, China
Bibliography
2025 Yu Yan, “A Post Monument Study”, Apparitions, Tent Press, University of London
2023 Yu Yan, “Practice of Social Sculpture”, Atron
2023 Yu Yan, Artist Interview, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art
2022 Yu Yan, “Art Review of The Wardian”, Sina
2020 Yu Yan, Artist Interview, LITANG
2020 Yu Yan, Art En+During Issue, Orenda Art Works
2018 Yu Yan, F-Stop Magazine, Issue #92
2018 Yu Yan, Blacklist Journal, vol.3, Brandeis University
Commissions
2024 Nominated Finalist, Smith College Kathleen McCartney Hall Artist Project, Northampton, MA