About
Yihan Huang has a consistent strategy in her art practice— driving from research on global politics and land to narritive that are both personal and universal,and taking forms of various mediums including performance, installation, video, and social interventions. Her identity as an activist/social practitioner interblends with her role as an artist. She always drives herself to the site and has a uniquely close relationship with her subject matters. She plans improvises. She creates a container of a specific time and context and facilitates events that happen in it. Through her art, she attempts to respond to emergent local and global issues of authority brutalities, global capitalism, and inaccessibility caused by race, gender, national identities, class, and other undefinable bias.
Social Practice
World Resistance Art De Center, Founder and Facilitator, September 2022-now, Philadelphia
Mingtu Print Supplies Factory, Assembly Line Worker, June-July 2022, Zhuhai, China
Nayuki Chain Bubble Teashop, Kitchen and Waitress, October -November 2021, Beijing, China
Xisan Village Fast Fashion Manufacturing Factories, Sewing, Ironing and Packing, 2019- 2022, Guangzhou
Art Practice
Ürümqi Road Sign, New York City, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Kolner, Texas, Guangzhou, and many other unclaimed cities, Nov 24-Nov 30, 2022
Exhibition of Resistance Art from Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, New Mexico, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong., Mainland China, etc. with Found Images, World Resistance Art De Center, Philadelphia, 2022
Lead in West Philadelphia, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, 2022
Research of 1413 Migrant Worker’s Death and Bus Funeral, Shenzhen, 2022
Women Sex Slave in Xuzhou Protest Vest, Guangzhou, 2022
Collective Editing, Dictionary of Oppressed Chinese Women, Internet Database, 2022
Honoring Labour T-shirt, Guangzhou, 2021-2022
45 Shenzhen Migrant Workers’ Interviews, 2021-2022
Covid Oral History of Sinophone Diaspora Archive, 2020-2021
Xisan Diary, Guangzhou, 2019-2022
Hotline for the Oppressed People, Installation, 2021
Xisan Village Zine Office and Community Center, Guangzhou, 2020
Liu-li-qiao Bridge to Jing-shan Imperial Park Worker’s Tour, Beijing, 2019
Gaze Out Art Event, The Galaxy Building, Xi'an, 2019
Weird Flux, Audian Art Centre, Vancouver, 2019
OnSite! Performance Art Festival, Audian Art Centre, Vancouver, 2019
Starting from 3813 W21st Ave, Vancouver, 2018
Still life, OCAT Beijing, Vancouver, 2018
City Monument Art and Design Week, Barcelona, Spain & St.Petersburg, Russia, 2018
Odds+ENDS, AMS Nest, Vancouver, 2018
Teaching Experience
FNAR 401 Video II, Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2022
FNAR 310, Critical Issue in Art, Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2020
Selected Public Events
Zine making workshop, World Resistance Art De Center & LGBT Center, Nov 17, 2022
Pan-Asian Pride Workshop, World Resistance Art De Center & LGBT Center, Oct 29, 2022
Woodcut Solidarity— Iran Protest 2022, World Resistance Art De Center, Oct15, Oct 22, 2022
Hong Kong Protest Footage Screening, World Resistance Art De Center, Sept 24, 2022
Peg the Patriarchy, Reproduction Freedom Party, Wonderland Club, Shenyang, July 2, 2022
Runway Performance, Queer Future Drag Ball Party, Shenyang, June 20, 2022
Screening of “Revolution of Out Times”, Shenyang, June 4, 2022
“Bullshit Job” Female Anarchists Supporting Group, March 29, 2022
Square Dance, Stand with Afghanistan Women Ally, Beijing, August 30, Sept 4, 2021
Screening of Kabul, City in the Wind, Beijing, Aug 19, 2021
Woodcut Workshop Series, Stand with Apple Daily Hong Kong, Beijing, June 2021
Mourning Performance, Wuhan, June 4, 2021
Education
Candidate of Master of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 2020
Bachelor of Environmental Design, School of Architecture, UBC, Vancouver, 2017
Pattison High School, Vancouver, 2013
Skills
Documentary Shooting; Sound production; Oral history interviews; 2D&3D digital modeling and craft; Panting; Sculpture, Graphic design; Data analysis
Award
Oakley Medal of Achievement, University of. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2021
Weitzman Funding Award, University of. Pennsylvania, honored as co-founder of Activism, Media, and Education Group, Philadelphia, 2022
Dean’s List with Distinction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2019
Studio Address: M31, 205 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, 19014