Chinese Canadian artist based in NYC
yj2519@columbia.edu
Selected Exhibitions
2026
I Wish Dying Could Be More Like This, 56 Henry, New York, NY (solo)
Art Basel Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong (group)
Art Central, Curated Video Art Section, Reading the Room, Hong Kong (group)
2025
Algorithms of Longing, Pace, Hong Kong (group)
Art Basel Miami Beach, Alisan Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL (group)
Cafeteria, Off the Wall, Rice University, Houston, TX (public art commission)
Second Body, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group)
As You Like It, Gallery OM, Shanghai, China (solo)
AI as Seen from the End of Ownership, Guangdong Times Museum, China (group)
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (group)
Final Descent, Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, China (solo)
2024
Mirror, Mirror, Meliksetian Briggs, Dallas, TX (two-person with James Mercer)
SpaceCity: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society, Houston, TX (group)
Core Exhibition 2024, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (group)
Night Skyline Stars, Laura Gallery, Houston, TX (group)
Spring, Sprang, Sprung, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China (group)
2023
A Bouquet of Senses, Meliksetian Briggs, Dallas, TX (solo)
Afternoon Projects, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China (group)
Two x Two for AIDS and Art Exhibition and Auction, Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX (group)
To Your Eternity: The 4th Future of Today Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (group)
Core Exhibition 2023, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (group)
2022
Zero-Sum Game, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Vacation, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX (two-person with James Mercer)
Vacation, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM (two-person with James Mercer)
Platform, Online Gallery by David Zwirner, New York, NY(group)
2021
Names for Airy Nothings, Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Medium-Sized Dry Goods, Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Desire Encapsulated, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA (group)
In Response: We Fight to Build a Free World, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (group)
2020
The Practice of Everyday Life, Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA (group)
Art on the Grid, Public Art Fund, New York, NY (public art commission)
Alone Together, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group)
M.I.O.K, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY (group)
2019
TEASE, Performance and Video Night, Prentis Hall, New York, NY (group)
Whams of Summer, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY (group)
Aesthetically Functional Only, curated by Edsel Williams, New York, NY (group)
Shadow Tongue, Duplex, Vancouver, Canada (group)
First-Year Exhibition, Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY (group)
2018
TEASE, Performance and Video Night, Prentis Hall, New York, NY (group)
2017
Pivots and Spins, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (group)
Just Go on Talking, Project Space, Vancouver, Canada (group)
Balloon, Ladner Pioneer Library, Ladner, Canada (solo)
2016
Ducks and Fishes, Neighborhood Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (group)
Precarium, Plaza Project Space, Richmond, Canada (group)
Careful Counters, Skylight Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (group)
Screenings
2025
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, 2220 Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Experimental Tuesdays, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2024
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT
2023
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY,
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, 2220 Arts, Los Angeles, CA, Block Cinema, Chicago, IL
Tabor Film Festival, Desinic, Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia
World Panorama, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
Mid-Length, Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK
Festival of Hand-Drawn Animation, Tomato Mouse, New York, NY
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
Public Collections
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Roswell Museum, RAiR Foundation, Roswell, NM
Grants, residency, and awards
2022 to 2024 CORE Residency, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2022 Roswell Artist in Residence, RAiR Foundation, Roswell, NM
2019 Residency, Mildred's Lane, PA
2018 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver, BC
Publications
2026
Elephant Sitting Still, on Hu Bo, By Yifan Jiang, Blau International Magazine, Berlin
Surviving the Ache: Yifan Jiang at 56 Henry, by Sonasia Tillery, Momus
2025
Finally Descent/ Yifan jiang, Essay by Valentin Diaconov, Sabian press (Monograph)
2023
To Your Eternity, by Ekalan Hou, Artforum
On the Contemporary Moving Image, by Xianhui Meng, Vogue China
Going Dutch: On the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, by Beatrice Loayza, Artforum
2021
Yifan Jiang: Names for Airy Nothings, Where Reality and Fantasy Collide, by Jody
Zellen, ArtNowLA