Xiaojing Yan artist talk
Come join us Friday, January 24th at noon in UWAG (ECH 1239), for an artist talk by Xiaojing Yan.
Her show Under the Pines, Over the Clouds is currently on display at UWAG until Mar 8, 2025
Xiaojing Yan is a China-born, Canadian artist who holds an MFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Nanjing University of the Arts. She is renowned for labour-intensive works that bridge cultures by intertwining Chinese customs with symbolic materials that forge connections between art, nature, and science. Her figurative sculptures made using mycelial cultures have gained the artist international exposure, and her artworks have been exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Chinese-American Arts Council in New York City, Suzhou Museum in China, and Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, among many other venues. Her work was recently featured on the cover of Art in America, and her paper Mythical Mushrooms: Hybrid Perspectives on Transcendental Matters appeared in Leonardo, the peer-reviewed journal published by MIT Press. She lives and works in Markham, Ontario.