Jiang Yifan(b.1994,Tianjing,China) is a Chinese-Canadian artist working in painting, animation, and installation. Jiang received her MFA from Columbia University, New York, and her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada. A project-based artist, Jiang uses elements of painting, animation, sculpture, and performance.Jiang Yifan's works usually start with a concept and an idea.Use a witty perspective to explore the intersection between science, sensibility and philosophy. Jiang works by honing in on quotidian moments and combining them seemly unrelated elements from multiple cultures and disciplines. Exhibitions in 2025 include Algorithms of Longing, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong (group) curated by Xin Wang, and AI, as Seen at the End of Ownership, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (group), Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis at the Asia Society, Houston (group). Along with a number of exhibitions at Meliksetian | Briggs both solo and group, recent exhibitions include Second Body, David Kordansky Gallery, LA (upcoming), Final Descent, Hansard Space, Hangzhou (solo), To your eternity - The 4th Future of Today Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing (group), a solo exhibition at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, and Vacation, a two-person exhibition with James J.A. Mercer at the Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM among others. Art on the Grid at New York Public Art Fund, New York, NY. Her work is in the collections of Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Roswell Museum/RAiR Foundation. Her animated works were selected by the London International Animation Festival, Animafest, Croatia, and Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others.Jiang was a resident at the Core Residency Program at the The Museum of Fine Arts Houston in the years 2022 to 2024 and adjunct Faculty at Columbia University, New York.

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Selected exhibitions

2025 Algorithms of Longing, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong

2025 AI, as Seen at the End of Ownership, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

2024 Mirror, Mirror, Meliksetian | Briggs, Dallas, Texas

2024 Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX

2024 Spring Sprang Sprung, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China

2023 To your eternity- Art and Tech Biennale, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2023 The secret realm of thrills and concealment, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China

2023 Night Skyline Stars, Laura, Houston, TX

2023 A bouquet of Senses, Meliksetian | Briggs, Dallas, TX

2023 Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX

2022 Zero-sum Game, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022 Vacation, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX

2022 Vacation, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM

2021 Names for airy nothings, Meliksetian | Briggs, LA

2021 Medium-sized dry goods, Meliksetian | Briggs, LA

2021 Desire Encapsulated, Make room, LA

2021 Welcome, Tomato Mouse, New York, NY

2020 The practice of everyday life, Meliksetian | Briggs, LA

2020 Art on the Grid, New York Public Art Fund, New York, NY

2020 M.I.O.K, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Shadow Tongue, Duplex, Vancouver, Canada2017 Pivots and Spins, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

screenings

2025 Experimental Tuesday, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2024 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2024 Transfiguration International Film Festival, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ON

2024 Human Recourses, Los Angeles, CA. Dirt Palace, Providence, RI

2024 Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah

2023 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Museum of Moving Image, NY

2023 REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, 2220 Arts, Los Angeles, CA, Block Cinema, Chicago, IL

2023 Tabor Film Festival, Desinic, Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia

2023 World Panorama, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia

2023 Mid-Length, Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK

2022 2020 UK2023 Festival of hand-drawn animation, Tomato Mouse, New York, NY

2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

2022 Edge of Frame, London International Animation Festival, London, UK

2020 States of Emergency, London International Animation Festival, London, UK

2020 Commiserate Chicago, Media Art Festival, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

publicactions

2023 To your Eternity, y, By Ekalan Hou, Art Forum

2023 On the contemporary moving image, by Xianhui Meng, Vogue China

2023 Going Dutch, On the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, by Beatrice Loayza. Art Forum

2021 Yifan Jiang: ‘Names for airy nothings’ Where Reality and Fantasy Collide, by Jody Zellen, ArtNowLA

residencies

2022 The core program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2021 Roswell Artist-in-resident program, Roswell, NM

2019 Mildred’s Lane, PA