Jiatong Yuan
Featured Works
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Jiatong YuanWomen in my country don’t have home. Women don’t have home, 2024Acrylic and pastel on canvas59.1 x 47.2 inchesView more details -
Jiatong YuanDesire the power, when orange is green, 2024Acrylic on canvas47 x 59 inView more details
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Jiatong YuanInvading, 2024Acrylic on cotton39.5 x 35.5 inView more details
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Jiatong YuanPlant body, 2024Acrylic on canvas39.5 x 35.5 inView more details
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Jiatong YuanDoes ’Save earth for what‘ sounds silly if you don’t know my context, 2024Acrylic on canvas, copper thread stitch70.9 x 118.2 inches (diptych)View more details
Overview
Jiatong Yuan (b. 1994, Liaoning) is an artist based in London and Beijing. Her work spans painting, writing and iconography, and explores themes of domesticity and wildness, gendered bodies and power dynamics, employing the concept of ‘becoming’ to challenge the traditional binary frameworks rooted in her own cultural background. She examines spatial features of domestic dwellings, often presented as places of safety, as sites of capitalist and patriarchal control. Her creative process draws on embodied experience, observation and reinterpretation, utilizing materials and imagery from daily life to reshape familiar symbols into tools for critique and imagination. Through fluid, dynamic painterly gestures and text, her work invites audiences to reconsider the hidden tensions between social expectations, freedom, and identity in the contemporary world.
Yuan holds an MA in Art and Ecology from Goldsmiths University of London (2024) and a BA in Photography from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Her work has been exhibited at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Museum in China (2015), HYPHA Studios in London (2024), and Safehouse 2 in London (2024).
Education
2023-2024 MA Art and Ecology, the Goldsmiths university of London
2012-2016 BA Photography, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Group Exhibitions
2024
Goldsmiths Art and Ecology Degree Show, Richard Hoggart Building, London, UK
Goldsmiths Art and Ecology Interim Show, Ben Pimlott Building, London, UK
2024
Goldsmiths Art and Ecology Degree Show, Richard Hoggart Building, London, UK
Goldsmiths Art and Ecology Interim Show, Ben Pimlott Building, London, UK
2016
Luxun Academic of Fine art Degree Show, China
2015
Annual College Outstanding Works Exhibition, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China
2014
Annual College Outstanding Works Exhibition, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China
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