Yiming Yang is an installation artist. Her works combine organisms, everyday objects, and machines, responding to post-Anthropocene aspects and exploring the tense and indistinguishable relationship between reality and appearance, organism and imitation. By exploring the fusion of authenticity, vulnerability, physicality, and technology, she strips mechanical components from their original context and function and places them on ambiguous and unknown boundaries. Through the use of low-tech dynamic devices, the individual's awareness and connection with the surrounding reality are reflected. Her work has a counter-intuitive protective shell, emphasizing how these elements fit into and influence human subjectivity and perception.
Yiming is currently the owner of Yimin Art Technology Co., Ltd. She holds an M.A. in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art (2020). She has exhibited at Shandong Art Museum, (Jinan, 2024); Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing (Beijing, 2023); Ws Space x Shanghart (Shanghai, 2023); The 1st Annual Metaverse Art @ Venice, (Online, 2022); Himalayas Museum, (Shanghai, 2021); Shibuya Parco, (Tokyo, 2021); Centre Pompidou, (Paris, 2020); Tate Modern (London, 2017). She was a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2023, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s ICCI Art Valley Program in 2022, and The Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai in 2021.
At MacDowell, Yang worked on a new installation about hyperobjects, exploring the fragile boundaries between humans and insects—life forms often perceived as intrusive or unsettling. Inspired by daily encounters with moths and spiders, the work examined how these non-human agents disrupt and inhabit human environments. She created sketches, built models, and collected local materials in preparation for an exhibition planned for 2025. Her earlier work is currently on view at HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel.
