Shanghai, China
B.1993
yy? (b.1993) born and raised in Shandong, China. Her practice focuses on class mobility, family dilemmas, women's social movements, poetry, and political slogans, as well as narratives of subjectivity as Chinese women in global patriarchal capitalism. yy?'s work encompasses social practice, installations, textiles and texts. She studied at the University of Leeds (Leeds, UK) as an undergraduate and subsequently at the Royal College of Art (London, UK), where she received her MA in Public Sphere in 2019.
Education
2017–2019 MA Contemporary Art Practice: Public Sphere, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2013–2017 BA Fashion and Textiles, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Residencies
2024 Horsepower Ranch, Jiading, Shanghai, China
2022 Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2019 AsiaArtActivism, London, UK
2019 Sixth Tone Rural Fieldwork, Guangxi, China
Solo Projects
2025 The World Taught Us How to Sing, Arch Gallery, Shanghai, China
2025 L’amore molesto, West Bund Art Fair / Absent Gallery, Shanghai, China
2024 Touching the Roof, Medomei Art Museum, Chongming Island, Shanghai, China
2022 Woman, House, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
Group Exhibitions
2025 A Little Water, Tofu Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 Holiday Trilogy: I A Game, A Dream, Maybees Factory, Beijing, China
2024 Taking the Night Bus Home, SNAP Art Center, Shanghai, China
2023 Incredible Actions, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2022 Present Art Award Exhibition, Present Art Space, Beijing, China
2022 Yulu Youth Art Festival, Sleep at Ten, Beijing, China
2022 Wilds – Numerology, Rhetoric and Dagger, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
2021 Hereditary Territory, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
2020 Temporary Family (Workshop), X Museum, Beijing, China
2020 Situation, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2020 DisOrder Live Art, Doodle Bar, London, UK
2018 The Best Is Yet to Come, Raven Row, London, UK
2018 Revolve Performance Art Days Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
