Born in 1989 in Beijing, China. Luka Yuanyuan Yang graduated from London College of Communications, University of the Arts London with a BA (hons) in photography. She currently lives and works in Beijing, San Francisco or New York. Most of the time, Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s projects take the research and collected historical materials as the departure, and they evolve along with individual experiences relate to specific places. By creating narratives where facts and fiction coexist, she challenges the rigid and conventional interpretation of history and gives voices to subjects that have been forgotten, silenced, and misinterpreted. Yang creates visual narrative through photography, writings, video, artist books and performance, these mediums intertwine with each other within her projects. In the past few years, many of Yang’s projects unfold upon the history of migration and war in the 20th century. Although the theme, location and period of the stories are different, they are subtlety related to each other. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally.
Read MoreRecently, the film Coby and Stephen are in Love co-directed with Carlo Nasisse was premiered at the Camden International Film Festival in September 2019. Her recent solo exhibitions include Dalian Mirage, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2019; Theater of Crossroads, Chinese America Arts Council Gallery 456, New York, United States, 2018; Interval, Modern Art Base, Shanghai, China, 2018; Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Beijing, Beijing, China, 2017; At the Place of Crossed Sights, C-Space, Beijing, China, 2016; Nearly There, Nearly Concrete, Chongqing, Organhaus, Chongqing, China, 2014; In-between Places, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, China, 2012. She has also attended group exhibitions include Buddhist Youths: United Collective Indifference, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China, 2019; encounter, Urban Space Art Season, Shanghai, China, 2019; Neither Black/Red/Yellow Nor Woman, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany, 2019; Grasses, Korean Cultural Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; Fieldwork, PHOTOFAIRS, Shanghai, China, 2019; RAM HIGHLIGHT 2019: Before the Whistle Blows, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; Born after the '85 New Wave Art Movement: The Generation Y of Contemporary Chinese Art, Beijing Contemporary, Beijing, China, 2019; 2019 Research-based Curatorial Project: Shorlist Exhibtion, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China, 2019; An Opera for Animals, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; The Adobe of Anamnesis, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China, 2019; Folding Force: Left View of the Ruin, Cypress Space, Chengdu, China, 2018; 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT, Shenzhen, China, 2018; Assembling K11 Shenyang, Shenyang, China, 2018; The Szechwan Tale, FM Centre, Milan Italy, 2018; Spiral Stairs, AIKE, Shanghai, China, 2018; Times Heterotopia Trilogy III: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2017; Guangzhou Image Triennial: Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou, China, 2017; Diversity of Modernity, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2016; Teetering at the Edge of the World, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2015; Asian Women Photographer’s Showcase, Objectifs, Singapore, 2015; Middle Ground, C-Space, Beijing, China, 2015; Flash Forward 2013, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto, Canada, 2013.
Luka Yuanyuan Yang was at the Union Docs Center for documentary art in Brooklyn in the summer of 2018, she was the artist-in-residence at Art in General in New York in 2018, supported by Asian Cultural Council’s grant in 2017. She has also been shortlisted and awarded internationally, including Camden Film Festival, 2019; New Talent Photography Award, 2016; Huayu Youth Award, 2016; Second Prize at Gucang Dummy Award Martin Parr Edition, Author Book Award at Rencontres d’Arles, 2015; UK winner at Magenta: Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, 2013 and Third Prize at Bar-Tur Photobook Award, 2011.
Text courtesy AIKE.
