Yang Wan 杨婉
b.1992, Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Yang Wan is an emerging artist based in San Francisco but born in the northeastern city of Chang Chun in China. She received BFA from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. Wan Yang studied painting at Massachusettes College of Art and Design 2015-2017, where she found the way to express and communicate using painting and drawing, and she received a Master of Fine Arts in June 2017. Her work entitled OUTCAST belongs to the permanent collection of CAFA Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the painting SUMMER WHISPER was collected by Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, Greece. In 2019, Wan's works participated in more than a dozen exhibitions around the world. Her works shown from Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul to the University of Suffolk in the United Kingdom, as well as multiple online exhibitions and physical galleries in the United States and China. Wan's collectors from all over the world. The physicality of making an art piece, for her, is primarily in the subconscious creative process. She believes art has the potential to inspire and empower, to shape lives and carve soon-to-be-trodden paths. Perception is in sharp focus for her creative working process; painting is an extension of her body. She paints to explore the world.
