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Forthcoming:
2025 Childhood Scenes, Triangolo, Cremona (solo, 25 January - 1 March)
2025 Dreams, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (group, 22 May - 31 August)
2025 Forårsudstillingen, Kunstal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (group, 6 February - 9 March)
2025 Voicing the Archive, esea contemporary, Manchester (group, 15 January - 25 May)
2025 CUTE, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (group, 5 July - 23 November)
2025 Parloir, Gauli Zitter, Milan (group, 2 April - 6 April)
2025 A New Composition for the Sea, Asymmetry International Syposium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (performance lecture, 25 April)


Solo Exhibitions: 
2024 Wild Acts: Act I, Surplus Space, Wuhan
2024 Licking, Weeping, Baying, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London
2023 Home is Where the Music Is, Reading International, Reading
2023 No Door, One Window, Only Light, Macalline Art Center, Beijing
2022 All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss, V.O Curations, London
2021 Wuhan Punk: Chris Zhongtian Yuan, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2020 1815, K11, Wuhan

Selected Solo Screenings:
2023 Art Lovers Movie Club: All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss, ArtReview, London
2022 Wuhan Punk, NOWNESS Asia
2021 Art Lovers Movie Club: Wuhan Punk, ArtReview, London
2020 Wuhan Punk, Film & Video Umbrella, London

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings:
2024 Diffusion, presented by re:assemblage collective, 410 Richmond, Toronto
2024 Three Turns, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival
2024 Follow the Feeling, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou
2024 It’s Gonna Rain, Goethe-Institut/AKuB, Shanghai
2024 I Will Haunt You Forever, Museum of the Home, London
2024 The 37th European Media Art Festival
2024 CUTE, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, London
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 Cloudy Song, PATH-AI Commissions, Channel, Somerset House, London
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:
2024 Intimate Labor, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou
2024 Intimate Labor, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London
2022 All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss, 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
2009 Changing Faces: Vietnamese Female Artists, Curatorial assistant to Diane Mullin, Weisman Art Museum


Teaching and Talks:
2024 Visiting Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2024 Panel Discussion, Guangdong Times Museum
2023 Visiting Artist Talk, University of Toronto
2023 Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Reading School of Art
2022 Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Reading School of Art
2022 Artist Talk, Architectural Association School of Architecture
2022 Panel Discussion, V.O Curations
2021 Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London
2021 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Savannah College of Art and Design
2021 Artist Talk, The Courtauld Institute of Art; OCAT Institute
2021 Panel Discussion, Power Station of Art
2021 Conversation, OCAT Institute
2020 Panel Discussion, OCAT Institute
2018 Visiting Critic, Architectural Association School of Architecture
2018 Artist Talk & Symposium, Venice Architecture Biennale Greek Pavilion 
2013-14 Teaching Assistant, 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 School of Architecture
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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