Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Degree Show, Stow College, 2022
Yiyang Chen is a Glasgow-based artist and researcher working across painting, moving image, ceramic, performance and writing. Delving into themes such as the monstrous, the archives, touch and gaze. Yiyang’s research and practice explore the liveness, contact(surfaces), gesture, self-reflexive configuration and the analogue. Yiyang holds a BA from the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts and an MA from the Glasgow School of Art. Yiyang’s works, developed through research in practice are highly regarded and have been exhibited internationally. In 2022, Yiyang showcased films and installations that examined and challenged the digital representation of East Asian women’s body image at her solo exhibition Someday Somehow in SaltSpace Gallery. Most recently, Yiyang’s video work Myths of Disavowal (2024) was featured at the exhibition in the PAKD Gallery Berlin and the Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh.