Chinese Canadian artist based in NYC
yj2519@columbia.edu
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Art Basel Miami, Alisan Fine Arts, FL
Second Body, David Kordansky Gallery, LA
West bund Art Fair, BROWNIE project, Shanghai, China
Dallas Art fair, Meliksetian Briggs, TX
As you like it, Gallery OM, Shanghai, China
AI as seen from the end of ownership, Guangdong Times Museum
Final Descent, Hunsand space, Hangzhou, China
Painting as a method, Alisan Fine Arts, NY
Blood as Thick as Water, Plato Gallery, New York, NY
Algorithms of Longing, Pace Gallery, Hong kong
2024
Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society Texas, Houston, TX
Mirror Mirror, Meliksetian|Briggs, Dallas, TX
Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Spring Sprang Sprung, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China
2023
To your eternity- Art and Tech Biennale, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
A bouquet of senses, Meliksetian|Briggs, Dallas, TX
The secret realm of thrills and concealment, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China
Night Skyline Stars, Laura, Houston, TX
Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX.
2022
Zero-sum Game, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vacation, Sweet Pass sculpture park, Dallas, TX
2021
Names for airy nothings, Meliksetian|Briggs, LA
Medium-sized dry goods, Meliksetian|Briggs, LA
Desire Encapsulated, Make room, LA
Welcome, Tomato Mouse, New York, NY
In response: We fight to build a free world, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2020
The practice of everyday life, Meliksetian|Briggs, LA
Art on the Grid, New York Public Art Fund, New York, NY
M.I.O.K, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Shadow Tongue, Duplex, Vancouver, Canada
2017
Pivots and Spins, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Just go on talking, Project Space, Vancouver, Canada
2016
Precarium, Plaza project space, Richmond, Canada
Careful Counters, Skylight Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Screenings
2025
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2024
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
2023
Eyeworks Festival of experimental animation, Museum of Moving Image, New York, NY, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, 2220 Arts, Los Angeles, CA, Block Cinema, Chicago, IL
Tabor Film Festival, Desinić, Hrvatsko zagorje, Croatia
World Panorama, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
Mid-Length, Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK.
Festival of hand-drawn animation, Tomato Mouse, New York, NY
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022
Edge of Frame, London International animation festival, London, UK
2020
States of emergency, London International animation festival, London, UK
Commiserate Chicago Media Art Festival, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Publications
2023
To your Eternity, by Ekalan Hou, Art Forum
On contemporary moving image, by Xianhui Meng, Vogue China
Going Dutch, On the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, by Beatrice Loayza. Art Forum.
The magical realism of Yifan Jiang, by Terri Provencal. Patron Magazine
2021
Yifan Jiang: ‘Names for airy nothings’ Where Reality and Fantasy Collide, by Jody Zellen, ArtNowLA
2020 MFA Spotlight, Art Forum
Education
2021 Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
Collections
2023. Dallas Museum of Art
Residencies
2022 The core program, Museum of Fine arts houston, Houston, Texas
2021 Roswell Artist-in-resident program, Roswell, New Mexico
2019 Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania