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.

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

2025 Yuan Fang: Forthcoming, Skarstedt, New York, NY

2024 Yuan Fang: Dangerous Waters, Skarstedt, London, UK

Yuan Fang: Flux, Long Museum, Shanghai, China

2023 Yuan Fang: Stratospheres, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2022 Yuan Fang, Prince & Wooster, New York, NY
           Yuan Fang: Expanse, Bill Brady Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
          Yuan Fang: Battleground, ATM Gallery, New York, NY

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

2020 Yuan Fang: Rushing Down The Cliff, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019 Yuan Fang: Liminalities, Time Arts, New York, NY

2015 Yuan Fang: The Weaver Girl and The Cowherd, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 SUPERCROWDS/SUPERCOMMUNITY, TANK Q, TANK, Shanghai, China
           The Figure Abstracted, Prince & Wooster, New York
           Alien, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida

2023 New Chapter, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
           Holographic Realm, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
           Yuan Fang, Yirui Jia, Liu Yin, and Homer Shew, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
           A Crack in Overton’s Window, The Ranch, Montauk, New York
           Crossing Frontiers, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel
           Walk Against the Wind, organized by Micki Meng and Parker Gallery, New York
           In New York, Thinking of You, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
           Considering Female Abstractions, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas
           Sprout, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2022 Stiltsville, Half Gallery, Miami, Florida
           The Throat of the Snake, COMA Gallery, Sydney, Australia
           Action, New Collectors Gallery, New York
           Outra: World-Building Within and Outside the Studio, SVA MFA Fine Art Thesis, School of Visual Art, New York
           Moon in Virgo, Bill Brady Gallery, Los Angeles, California
           Conceive, Latitude Gallery, New York

2021 A Couple Of, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
           Tilted Visions, Village One, New York, NY
           Standing Out, the Outstandings, Latitude Gallery, New York, NY.

2020 What Is Your Reality in the Pandemic Era? Orange Art Foundation, New York, NY

          Uncertainty, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019 W A Y S O U T, Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY

          Curated by Suzanne Joelson

          Cross-Cultural Practice: Recent Works by Chinese Artists in New York, 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY

          Curated by Zhijian Qian

          Surface 8 at ARENA, Brooklyn Dermatology, Brooklyn, NY

          Make It Look Like An Accident, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY