YURI YUAN

Yuri Yuan (b. 1996) was born in Harbin, China, and raised in Singapore. She has received a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Columbia University. The Critic John Yau has described Yuan’s paintings as “understated, but... signal[ing] a significant shift in consciousness.” Yuan takes as a subject every day, capturing a mundanity and emptiness in even the most surreal scenes. Her delicate palette emphasises a fundamental emptiness of the modern condition, a loneliness that follows her female protagonists from the city to the countryside, from reality into dreams. By emphasisng the unexplainable, Yuan’s works represent a new, achingly contemporary sea change for figurative painting. Yuan was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation scholarship in 2020, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019. Yuan has exhibited work at the Center for the Arts, Umbria, Italy; Make Room Los Angeles; and Asia Art Center, Taipei. Yuan recently had a solo show at Alexander Berggruen, New York, and a solo show at Make Room Los Angeles in 2022. Her work is in the public collections of the Columbus Museum of Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Yuan currently lives and works in New York, where she is an artist in residence at Silver Art Projects Residency.