CHINESE ARTIST BASED IN LONDON
ARTIST BIO
Yin Wang is a London-based artist whose practice explores the interplay between expressive figuration and abstraction through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Born in Nanjing, China, and having lived in Shanghai and Hong Kong, her experiences shape poetic reflections on identity, familial bonds, and belonging.
With a background in fashion design and a BA in Fine Art from Art Academy London, Wang’s work—most recently exhibited at Mall Galleries’ Beyond the Prize 2025—bridges cultural heritage with contemporary themes, weaving personal narratives into broader explorations of love, memory, and displacement.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a diasporic Chinese artist, I create expressive work that confronts the ache of displacement and the fragile threads that bind us to our roots. My practice is a visceral response to the spaces between here and there, then and now—a vessel for longing, remembrance, and the unspoken tensions of belonging.
Rooted in painting but expanding into sculpture and printmaking, my work merges traditional elements with contemporary themes, exploring ordinary lives, fragmented mythologies, viral moments from social media, and the weight of ancestral stories. These elements converge as meditations on selfhood, familial bonds, and the emotional terrain shaped by loss and longing—all set against the backdrop of contemporary China’s shifting social landscape.
Material and colour serve as emotional languages in my practice, drawing from traditional Chinese art forms such as ink painting, calligraphy, and folk art. By blending these traditions with Western mediums, my approach embodies both fusion and collision, fostering a cross-cultural dialogue that mirrors the complexities of identity today—inviting viewers to engage with a sense of both familiarity and estrangement.
ARTIST CV
Education
2020 – 2021 Art Academy London – Certificate Fine Art
2005 – 2008 Donghua University (Shanghai, China) – MA Artistic Design (Fashion)
2001 – 2005 Donghua University (Shanghai, China) – BA Artistic Design (Fashion)
Awards
Liberty Art Award 2024 , Shortlisted
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exibition- Winsor & Newton Painting Award, Winner
Art Academy London- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition prize, Winner
Art Academy London- Autumn Peer Prize, Second Place
Art Academy London- Principal’s Prize, Winner
Group Shows
PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Art Academy London
SALON, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Celebrating Cultural Diversity, Cass Art Kingston
BA Fine Art Degree Show, Art Academy London
Contemporary Portraiture Degree Show, Art Academy London
2022
ALTERA Group Exhibition, Nolia's Gallery , London
2021
Certificate Grad Show, Art Academy London
Press
a-n Degree Shows Guide/2024, p30
https://stcuthbertsmill.blogspot.com/2024/05/artist-interview-yin-wang.html
https://stcuthbertsmill.blogspot.com
Broadcast
Sky Portrait Artist of the Year S10 E6 (Heat 5) contestant
Selected Commissions
Portrait of a Uyghur Family in London, Ablikim and Mukaddes’s Private Collection
2021- Now Through her ongoing project “50 Faces Made With Love”, Yin has created portraits for private collections in the UK, Europe and China