Yiyao Tang

Yiyao Tang (b.1996 in Wenzhou, China) is an immigrant artist working across mediums of video, projection, and installation to explore how social and political systems are embedded within images and objects. She holds an MA from Harvard University and BFA from Pratt Institute. Using personal devices and inventive setups, Tang constructs and challenges ideas on freedom, trauma, justice, democracy, otherness, memory and monuments. Her setups play the role of both object and subject of her creations, exploring multiple perspectives that often lead to unpredictable outcomes. Recent works have examined digital media, preservation, and extinction as subjects embedded in her practice and made visible in sculpture, video and found objects. More than just an archival account, Tang’s approach approximates archaeology, uncovering layer upon layer of evidence of our own contemporary artifacts, collective memories, and climactic traumas.