Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, and printmaking, with a background in fashion design.
My practice explores the relationship between figuration and abstraction, shaped by my experience of living between cultures. I examine themes of memory, displacement, and the shifting nature of identity, particularly in relation to familial bonds and the quiet emotional weight of loss and longing.
Rooted in painting but extending into other mediums, my work brings together traditional Chinese visual languages—such as ink, calligraphy, and material sensitivity—with contemporary approaches. I am interested in how these elements can be reconfigured to reflect emotional and psychological spaces framed through distance.
Drawing from ordinary lives, fragmented narratives, and cultural memory, my work reflects on the subtle transformations that occur over time—how connections evolve, how meaning shifts, and how the idea of “home” becomes layered and unstable. Through material and colour I create works that invite reflection on the tensions between presence and absence, familiarity and estrangement through a restrained and contemplative approach.
I am currently working on a series of pieces inspired by architectural elements from traditional Chinese gardens, such as moon gates and ornamental see-through windows. I reimagine these forms as conceptual portals—thresholds through which memory, distance, and cultural identity are are gently negotiated. I construct spatial compositions that echo the experience of moving through a garden: fragmented, indirect, and unfolding, reflecting how memory unfolds over time and how relationships are shaped by both separation and connection.
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 Exhibitions
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