chris.zhongtian.yuan@gmail.com
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Forthcoming:
2024 Follow the Feeling, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou (group, 23 March - 23 June)
2024 Licking, Weeping, Baying, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London (solo, 7 March - 17 April)
2024 CUTE, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, London (group, 25 January - 14 April)
2024 It’s Gonna Rain, Goethe-Institut/AKuB, Shanghai (screening, 19 - 21 April)
2024 Queer East Film Festival, Museum of the Home, London (screening, 25 April)


Selected Solo Exhibitions and Screenings: 
2023 Home is Where the Music Is, Reading International, Reading
2023 No Door, One Window, Only Light, Macalline Art Center, Beijing 
2023 Art Lovers Movie Club: All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss, ArtReview, London
2022 Cloudy Song, Somerset House, London
2022 Wuhan Punk, NOWNESS Asia
2022 All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss, V.O Curations, London
2021 Art Lovers Movie Club: Wuhan Punk, ArtReview, London
2021 Wuhan Punk: Chris Zhongtian Yuan, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2020 1815, K11, Wuhan
2020 Wuhan Punk, Film & Video Umbrella, London


Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings:
2023 San Diego Asian Film Festival
2023 The Fantastical and the Real, EASGSU Film Series, University of Toronto
2023 Future of Today Biennial: To Your Eternity, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2023 Play and Loop V, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 Home Is Where the Music Is, Reading Biscuit Factory, Reading
2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam
2022 Meet you at the corner!, Dangxia Art Space, Beijing
2022 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt
2022 Play and Loop IV, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2022 Soul Hunter, Surplus Space, Wuhan
2021 The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2021 The Perfect Flaw, Huayu Youth Art Award, Sanya
2021 9/11 Twenty Years On, Aesthetica Short Film Festival
2021 I Could Not Recall How I Got Here, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London
2021 East Lake Sculpture Biennale, Wuhan
2021 Videoex, Zurich
2021 A Continuation of Decentralized Reality with Expanding Intimacy, OCAT Institute, Beijing
2021 Art 11 Prize, K11, Wuhan
2021 Spring Time, Palm Trees, Antenna Space, Shanghai
2021 Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, Somerset House, London
2020 5th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Art Triennale, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
2020 Banal Objects, DIY Aesthetics, OCAT Institute, Beijing
2020 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York
2019 Project Review, Architectural Association, London
2018 School of Athens, Venice Architecture Biennale Greek Pavilion
2018 Project Review, Architectural Association, London
2018 Everything Out the Door, London Met Architecture School
2017 Everything Out the Door, Campo Space, Rome
2017 Project Review, Architectural Association, London
2015 Shotgun, Rice Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 Connecting Future, K11, Wuhan
2010 Young Video Artists from Wuhan, K11, Wuhan
2010 Travel Fellowship, Metropolitan Design Centre, Minneapolis


Selected Performances:
2022 Polyphonic Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London (in collaboration with Kevin G. Davy & Ella Frost)
2022 All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss, V.O Curations, London (in collaboration with Olukemi Lijadu)
2021 Wuhan Punk: Chris Zhongtian Yuan, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2019 Border Walks, London Zoo, London


Curatorial Projects:
2023 Home Is Where the Music Is, Screening program, Biscuit Factory, Reading International
2020 Banal Objects, DIY Aesthetics, OCAT Institute, Beijing (co-curated with Claire Shiying Li)
2014 ArtSpace China/NYC, with Andrea Johnson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities College of Design
2009 Changing Faces: Vietnamese Female Artists, Curatorial assitant to Diane Mullin, Weisman Art Museum


Selected Awards, Commissions & Residencies:
Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant (2023)
British Council UK-China CtC Grant (2023)
British Council Short Film Travel Grant (2023)
Somerset House PATH-AI Film Commission (2022)
Arts Council England Project Grant (2022)
Film London FLAMIN Fellowship (2021-22)
Huayu Youth Award Finalist (2021)
K11 Art 11 Prize Winner (2021)
V.O Curations Residency (2021)
Aesthetica Art Prize Winner (2020)
OCAT Institute Research-based Curatorial Project (2020)
Film & Video Umbrella Commission (2020)
Rice University SOA Fellowship (2014-15)
Salt Lake City 69.70 International Competition Honorable Mention (2013)
Metropolitan Design Center Research Travel Fellowship (2010)
University of Minnesota Global Excellence Scholarship (2007-11)


Teaching & talks:
2023 University of Toronto; University of Reading
2022 University of Reading; Architectural Association School of Architecture
2021 Goldsmiths, University of London; Savannah College of Art and Design; The Courtauld Institute of Art; Power Station of Art
2020 OCAT Institute
2018 Architectural Association School of Architecture
2014 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities


Education:
2016-2019 AA Dipl./RIBA Part II, Architectural Association School of Architecture
2014-2015 M. Arch Courses, Rice University
2010-2014 B.S. Architecture, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
2011-2013 Employment in architecture offices in Copenhagen, Denmark 
2009 Art and Architecture, DIS/Copenhagen University
2007-2009 B.A. Art History, University of Minnesota Twin Cities


Born 1988 Wuhan, China.


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