Yilin Zhang (b. 1998, China) lives and works between Shanghai, London, and Athens, Georgia. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art at theUniversity of Georgia, after receiving her MA from the Royal College of Art and her BA from...
Read MoreYilin Zhang (b. 1998, China) lives and works between Shanghai, London, and Athens, Georgia. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art at the
University of Georgia, after receiving her MA from the Royal College of Art and her BA from the China Academy of Art. Centered on painting, her
practice also spans printmaking, installation, performance, and writing. Shaped by her cross-cultural experiences across China, the United
Kingdom, and the United States, her work explores mysticism, trauma, mythology, monstrosity, supernatural phenomena, and science fiction
through a comparative and intuitive lens. Her practice attends to the trauma and subjective experiences of the Other, engaging spirituality,
irrationality, and perception as strategies for ongoing healing and re-enchantment.
In her recent series of fairylands and affective worldbuilding, she draws inspiration from Chinese Ming-Qing ghost and romance literature, as well
as New Weird science fiction, to explore the entangled relationships between human and nonhuman subjects in the other world. Through body-
mediated abstract paintings made with pastel and mixed media, ghostly beauty, alluring and dangerous illusions begin to emerge across this
land.
