Yuanyuan Yang (b.1989, Beijing) is an artist based in Beijing, China. By experimenting with different ways of visual storytelling, she creates narratives where facts and fiction coexist to explore intersections between the individual and the collective memories. Most of her projects begin with investigating various sources of archives and are closely related to particular local histories. Yang’s work spans photography, text, video, installation, artist books and performance, these mediums intertwine with each other within her projects through different methodology.
Yang received a BA (hons) in photography at London College of Communications, University of the Arts London in 2013. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her solo exhibitions include: “Interval”(Modern Art Base, Shanghai, 2018); “At the Place of Crossed Sights”(C-Space, Beijing, 2016) and “In-between Places” (Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, 2012). She participated Anren Biennale (2017) and Guangzhou Image Triennial (2017). Her works have been the subject of exhibitions at FM Center, Milan (2018); OCAT Shanghai(2017); Guangzhou Times Museum, Guangzhou (2017); Yang Art Museum, Beijing (2017); Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna (2016)；Benaki Museum, Athens (2015); Objectifs, Singapore (2015); Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC), Montevideo (2015) and Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing (2012).
In 2018 Yang was the artist-in-residence at Art in General in New York supported by Asian Cultural Council. Yang was shortlisted for the Huayu Youth Award in 2016. In 2015 she was shortlisted for Author Book Award at Rencontres d'Arles and Best Photobook of 2015 at Fototbookfestival in Kassel, and she received second prize at Gucang Dummy Award Martin Parr Edition in the same year. She was shortlisted for the first round selection at Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014; she was one of the UK winners of the Magenta: Flash Forward award in 2013; she received the Tierney Fellowship at Three Shadows Photography Award in 2013, and she received third prize at the Bar-Tur Award in 2011.
Yang also writes extensively about art and has been a freelance writer since 2009. She currently works as the Beijing-based editor of Art World magazine.
Artist Web Site http://www.lukayangworks.com |
| Works & History | |
| Solo Exhibitions: 2018 Modern Art Base, “Interval”, Shanghai, China 2016 C-Space, “At the Place of Crossed Sights (Part 1)”, Beijing, China 2014 Organhaus, “Nearly There, Nearly Concrete, Chongqing”, Chongqing, China 2012 Being 3 Gallery, “In-between Places”, Beijing, China | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 OCAT Shenzhen, “Fiction Art”, Shenzhen, China 2018 Three Shadows Photogrpahy Art Center, “Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Three Shadows Photography Award”, Beijing, China 2018 Chi K11 Artspace, “Assembling”, Shenyang, China 2018 FM Centre, “The Szechwan Tale “, Milan, Italy 2018 OCAT Beijing, “Frontier Vision: Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics”, Beijing, China 2018 Aike Dellarco Gallery, "Spiral Stair", Shanghai, China 2017 OCAT Shanghai, “Frontier Vision: Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics”, Shanghai, China 2017 Guangdong Museum of Art, “Guangzhou Image Triennial: Simultaneous Eidos”, Guangzhou, China 2017 N3 Gallery, “Socialist Baraque”, Beijing, China 2017 Yang Gallery, “A Seperation“, Beijing, China 2017 Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui, China 2017 The 1st Anren Biennale, “Today’s Yesterday”, Chengdu, China 2017 China Port Museum, “The Port and The Image: Documenting China’s Harbor Cities”, Ningbo, China 2017 AM Art Space, “Raw Notes”, Shanghai, China 2017 Unicorn Center for Art, “You really know where you are. For the first time in history”, Beijing, China 2017 Yang Art Museum (YAM), “Rebel Cities”, Beijing, China 2017 Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, “Arrival City”, Chongqing, China 2017 Xitek / Chronus Art Center, “New Talent Award Finalist Exhibition”, Shanghai, China 2017 Guangdong Times Museum, “Times Heterotopia Trilogy III：The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away”, Guangzhou, China 2016 ArtSanya, “2016 Huayu Youth Award”, Sanya, China 2016 Jimei x Arles Photography Festival, “A Fictional Narrative Turn”, Xiamen, China 2016 Lianzhou International Photography Festival, “As Entertaining as Possible”, Lianzhou, China 2016 The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, “HISTORICODE: Scarcity & Supply”, Nanjing, China 2016 235 Guangfu Road, “You won’t be young forever”, Shanghai, China 2016 Fotogalerie Wien, “Diversity of Modernity”, Vienna, Ausria 2016 International Urban Image Festival, “Je est un autre”, Shenzhen, China 2016 Photofairs Shanghai, Artworld Booth: The Poetic of Daily Life in the Social Media Era, Shanghai, China 2016 Gucang Photography Art Center, Become a Traveler Once Again, Lanzhou, China 2016 Intelligensia Gallery, “Hypertext”, Beijing, China 2015 AOTU Studio, “Organic Iconography”, Beijing, China 2015 Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC), “Teetering at the Edge of the World”, Montevideo, Uruguay 2015 Objectifs, “Asian Women Photographer’s Showcase”, Singapore 2015 Photo Shanghai, “LEAP Pavilion: The Coming Image”, Shanghai, China 2015 Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, China 2015 C-Space, “Middle Ground”, Beijing, China 2015 Scope Art, “An Anonymous Exhibition”, Beijing, China 2014 Beijing Design Week, “Bibliorium”, Beijing, China 2014 Kunstbüro Glöckner, “In Ruinen 2012-2014: Das Kunstunternehmen”, Frankfurt, Germany 2013 Space Regeneration Project, “#6 Exhibition: Not There”, Beijing, China 2013 Photofusion, “Flash Forward 2013”, London, UK 2013 Neubacher Shor Contemporary, “Flash Forward 2013”, Toronto, Canada 2013 Photoville, “Tierney Fellowship Exhibition”, Brooklyn NY 2013 University of the Arts London, “London College of Exhibitionist BA Photography Graduate Show”, London, UK 2012 Triange Space, “Bar-Tur Winners 2011/12 Exhibition”, London, UK 2012 Paradise Row, “Bar-Tur Winners 2011/12 Exhibition”, London 2012 Three Shadows Photography Art Center, “Three Shadows Photography Award”, Beijing, China 2012 798 Space, “Affordable Art Beijing”, Beijing, China 2011 J Gallery, “Light Room”, Shanghai, China 2011 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China 2010 China Academy of Arts, “Banquet of Images”, Hangzhou, China 2010 Camberwell College of Arts, “India Song”, London, UK 2010 The Other Space Gallery, “Some Summer”, London, UK 2010 Departure Gallery, “Rhizomatic”, London, UK 2010 Beijing Center for the Arts, “the market”, Beijing, China | |
| Awards / Grants 2017 Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, NYC 2016 Finalist, New Talent Photography Award, Xitek 2016 Finalist, Huayu Youth Award, ArtSanya 2015 Second Prize, Gucang Dummy Award Martin Parr Edition 2015 Shortlisted, Author Book Award, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles 2015 Best Photobooks, Fotobookfestival, Kassel 2015 Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards 2015 Honorable Mention, Exposure Award 2014 Shortlisted, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London 2013 Paul Smith Award, London College of Communication 2013 UK winner, Magenta: Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation 2012 Tierney Fellowship, Tierney Family Foundation 2011 3rd Place, Bar-Tur Award, University of the Arts London | |
| Artist Book: 2015 Lateral Roots Issue one (self-publish) 2014 “10 Days in Kraków”, Jiazazhi Publishing, Beijing, China | |
| Artist Residencies: 2018 Art in General, New York, USA 2016 Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria 2016 Gucang Photography Art Center, Lanzhou, China 2014 Organhaus AIR Program, Chongqing, China |