YANG YI
Yang Yi (b. 1993, Nanjing, China) is a young painter and graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China (CAFA) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She currently lives and works in Paris.
Congratulated by the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019, Yang Yi won the Amis des Beaux- Arts de Paris Prize (Khalil de Chazournes Prize) the same year. In 2021, she was on a residency at Chez Tante Martine - Yishu 8, Paris. Her work, acquired by numerous private collectors, has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Hôtel Parister in Paris and the Nouvel Institut Franco-Chinois in Lyon.
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