Online Artist Talk: Xiaojing Yan
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Online - Zoom
Online Artist Talk: Xiaojing Yan
Wednesday, 25 January at 1pm AST
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88935703358
Zoom passcode: 9gJB2e
All are welcome!
This talk is presented by the Worried Earth Project, a New Frontiers in Research Fund-supported collaboration investigating vocabularies and rituals for dealing with eco-anxiety and climate grief. Xiaojing Yan's work will be part of the upcoming Worried Earth exhibition, presented at the Port Loggia gallery in February 2023. The exhibition is curated by Erica Mendritzki, with assistance from Dr. Melanie Zurba of Dalhousie University.
Xiaojing Yan is a Chinese-Canadian artist who lives and works in Toronto/ Tkaronto area. Her labour-intensive works are infused with the immigrant’s complicated sense of cultural and psychological bifurcation and create contemporary connections to ancestral values. Her unique point of view brings together the past and the present and encompasses culture and nature, art and science.
Recent solo exhibitions include Chinese-American Arts Council in NYC, Suzhou Museum in China, and Maison Hermès in Shanghai. She recently showed at the Canadian Cultural Centre Paris. Her work can be found in collections, such as the ROM, Suzhou Museum, and Global Affairs Canada.
Yan has received numerous awards and grants including InStyle’s Women InCreation Prize in Visual Arts (2021), Project Grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Project Grants from the Canada Council, Chalmers Arts Fellowship from the Ontario Arts Council, Young Alumni Achievement Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Learn more about Xiaojing Yan here.
Photo credit: Liang Yue
