Yuan Fang

Yuan Fang was born in Shenzhen, China, in 1996. Growing up in a large, metropolitan city encouraged her to embrace a global and eclectic view of the world, an outlook furthered by her first visit to the United States as a young girl and her subsequent relocation to the country. Fang attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she received the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement. She then continued at SVA, receiving her MFA from the institution in 2022 under the tutelage of artists such as James Siena and Marilyn Minter. It was through this experience that she was able to come into close contact with artists from The New York School as well as Francis Bacon—all of whom have left a mark on her practice. Living in another country has both expanded her understanding of our global contemporary environment and brought her closer to her cultural roots and ideological foundations. Perceiving herself as a site of intertwining cultural experiences and awareness, she explores the dichotomy of global connection and diasporic living in her work.

Fang’s work is often large in scale and entirely abstract, characterized by lyrical and massive swirls of paint. These energetic marks are geological in their feel, tied to notions of the body, landscape, space, and time. Fang describes these amorphous forms as distorted human bodies, and she builds them up on her canvas improvisational, without using preparatory sketches or studies. This fluid yet intense way of working allows for unexpected discoveries and risk-taking that is important to Fang’s process.

Fang has already received numerous accolades and has participated in multiple solo and group shows around the world. In 2024, she was chosen for the 30 under 30 list by Forbes Asia and became the youngest artist to ever receive a solo exhibition at the Long Museum with her show, Flux. Other recent gallery exhibitions include Skarstedt, Chelsea (2025); Skarstedt, London (2024); Half Gallery, New York (2023); Prince & Wooster, New York (2022) and Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2021). Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Inima de Paula Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and the Long Museum, Shanghai, China, among others.

Education

2022 Master of Fine Arts, Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual & Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2026 Rift and Bloom, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

2025 Spaying, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, USA

2024 Flux, Long Museum, Shanghai, China Dangerous Waters, Skarstedt Gallery, London, UK

2023 Stratospheres, Half Gallery, New York, USA

2022 Yuan Fang, Prince & Wooster, New York, USA Expanse, Bill Brandy, Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Battleground, ATM Gallery, New York,

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Young Wave, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

The Discourse of Matter: An Exploration Exhibition on Painting Materials and Language in Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

2024 SUPERCROWDS/SUPERCOMMUNITY, TANK Q, TANK, Shanghai, China

The Figure Abstracted, Prince & Wooster, New York, USA

2023 New Chapter, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA

Holographic Realm, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

A Crack in Overton’s Window, The Ranch, Montauk, New York, USA

Crossing Frontiers, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel

In New York, Thinking of You, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

Waiting for Spring, two person show with Se Oh, Half Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Considering Female Abstractions, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA

Sprout, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2022  Stiltsville, Half Gallery, Miami, USA

The Throat of the Snake, COMA Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Action, New Collectors Gallery, New York, USA

Outro: World-Building Within and Outside the Studio, SVA MFA Fine Arts Thesis 2022, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, USA

Moon in Virgo, Bill Brady Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Conceive, Latitude Gallery, New York, USA 2021

A Couple Of, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Standing Out, the Outstandings, Latitude Gallery, New York, USA

2020 Uncertainty, Latitude Gallery, New York, USAUSA

2021 Emptiness and Mirror, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2020 Rushing Down The Cliff, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, USA

Public Collections

Long Museum, China He Art Museum (HEM), China Song Art Museum, China X Museum, China TAF Foundation, Singapore Lafayette Anticipations, France FLAG Art Foundation, USA Hill Art Foundation, USA Institute of Contemporary Art, USA Marquez Art Projects, USA Green Family Art Foundation, USA Grand Rapids Art Museum, USA Mint Museum, NC, USA Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, USA Asymmetry Art Foundation, UK Rogath Family Collection, USA Museu Inimá de Paula, Brazil