Yi Hsuan Lai is a Taiwanese lens-based artist based in New York City. She incorporates photography, sculpture, and performance to make surreal staged photographs and photographic collages that reflect the fluidity of the body, complexity of self-identity and Otherness. Inspired by her emigration and feminine experience to make her practice revolves around playful construction and deconstruction. She makes the assemblages for the camera through discarded and found objects and represents their transient and unstable status into bodily and psychic landscapes. Yi Hsuan experiments with the elasticity of photography by using altered printing materials and sculptural presentation to create a dialogue between tangible sensibility and tactile ambiguity within a space. Her work provokes the audience’s longing for touch and revaluation of precarious materiality into a physical and otherworldly representation.

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She has been awarded LensCulture Critic’s Choice Top 10 Chosen, and her work has been shown in solo show in Anonymous Town at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2020, New York), group show in Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow, PHMuseum Photo Festival (2022, Bologna, Italy), Smart Objects, Flattened Images, in Well Well Project, (2022, Portland, OR), A Body: Figure and Flesh at Floor Gallery (2022, Seoul, South Korea), If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now at Wassaic Project (2021, Wassaic, NY), Unmute 10002 residency group show at Austrian Cultural Forum (2021, New York), The Thing in Itself at NARS Residency (2020, New York). Seasonal Repression at Field project (2020, New York), In Visible Space at Here Art (2020, New York), Body Language at Deer studio (2020, New York), Break a leg in Photo emphasis at Sugar gallery (2019, Fayetteville) and WONDER FOTO Day (2019, Taiwan).