Yilin Zhang

PhD in Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 

yz37764@uga.edu | jiaozi7@outlook.com

Education

2025-present University of Georgia, PhD in Art

2020-2023 Royal College of Art, MA Contemporary Art Practice

2016-2020 China Academy of Art, BFA Printmaking (Painting)                                        

Exhibition & Residency

Sensitive Being, Kindred Cameras, Melbourne, 2025

Unnamed Growth, RAN Art Museum, Foshan, 2025

Aether Field, M.Y Gallery, Guangzhou, 2025

THE VIA COMBUSTA, The 3rd Awarded Exhibition of the Jimei x Arles Curatorial Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2024

“Reasons to Paint” The 5th Inter-Youth International Painting Exhibition, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, 2023

Cyclic Structure, 1933 Old Millfun, Shanghai, 2023

Transcending Boundaries, Pearlona Common Room, M50, Shanghai 2023                                                     

Beyond Surface, CAP Festival, Royal College of Art, Tate Modern, 2023

Ties That Cannot Be Unbound, New Art City, 2023

Dwelling on the Cloud, Ugly Duck, London, 2022

Sleepless Elysium, Venice Arsenale, Venice, 2022

VOLATILE MILIEU: Collective Healing, The Crypt Gallery, London, 2022

1st Hyper Youth Award Artist Exhibition, Xixi, Hangzhou, 2022

“Go Back” NFT work issuance, NFT China x Xixi, Online, 2022

“Song of the Wanderers ”Exhibition, Home Gallery, Hangzhou, 2021

Aranya Theater Festival,aranya, Qinhuangdao, 2021

Coffer Romance, Dong, Wuhan, 2021

Adidas Original SUSTAN Old Clothes Reconstruction Exhibition, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, 2021

Royal College of Art 2021 Wip Show, Royal College of Art, Online ,2021

6th China Young Print Artist Exhibition, Guanlan Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, 2021

FutureLab Art&Design Future Education Expo, West Bund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2020

“Live Together” China Academy of Art Graduation Exhibition, China Academy of Art, 2020

International Guanlan Printmaking Biennale Shortlisted, 2019

Cement Park Live Art Festival, Moving Mind Museum, Shanghai, 2019

Green Park Art Fair, Gaobei Sixteen Creative Park, Shenzhen, 2019


Awards & Honors              

Distinction CHS Dissertation, Royal College of Art, 2022

1st Hyper Youth Award(top 10), MartinGoya Business,Imagination Lab,Xixi, 2021

Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Education Bureau, 2020

Lin Fengmian Creation Scholarship Silver Award, China Academy of Art, 2020

Xiapeng Scholarship, China Academy of Art, 2020

Distinction Graduation Dissertation, China Academy of Art, 2020

National Scholarship, China Education Bureau, 2019