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
Ornament: Her Minor Rituals, LATITUDE Gallery NewYork, Artsy, USA, 2026
20th Arte Laguna Prize Finalist Exhibition, Venice, Italy, 2026
Lyndon House Art Center 51st Juried Exhibition, Athens, GA, USA, 2026
New In Town, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA, USA, 2026
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
Lyndon House Foundation Merit Award, Lyndon House Art Center, USA, 2026
Betty Cabin Scholarship, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 2026
20th Arte Laguna Prize Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy, 2025
Mary Rosenblatt Art Scholarship, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 2025
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
Artist Talks
Zhang Yilin, Lyndon House Art Foundation Merit Award Artist Talk, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA (April 16, 2026)
Zhang Yilin, MFA/MA Journey, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (March 2, 2026)
Zhang Yilin, "Chiron’s Room: Artist Share", workshop "The Eagle Dream of Madame Darget", THE VIA COMBUSTA, Shanghai, CN (April 22, 2024)
Zhang Yilin, "The Reason of Starting Painting", A Lesson from Young Artist, Inter-Youth "The Reason of Painting" Presentation, China Academy of Art, CN (September 1, 2023)
Zhang Yilin, “Sleepless Elysium,” Forum 18/N: Turning Inward: Artistic Healing in the Depths of the Metaverse, RGRT Meta-Curation Annual Venice Metaverse Exhibition, online, (September 4, 2022)
Conference Presentations
Zhang Yilin, 痴情司 (Chiqing Si): Transgression, Excess, and Punishment of Qing (情) as a Supernatural Force in Ming-Qing Romance and Ghost Literature, 2026 Affect Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada (October 23-27, 2026)
Zhang Yilin, Tender Disaster in the Otherworld: the Affective Excess of ‘Making Kin’ in Transcultural Fictions, 2026 Affect Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada (October 23-27, 2026)
Zhang Yilin, "Feeling Beside Affect: (Un)translatable & Ineffable", 2026 Affect Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada (October 23-27, 2026) (panel organizer and presenter)
Zhang Yilin, "Speaking Elsewhere: Narrative, Myth-Making and Visual-Based Auto-Ethnography Against Linguistic Colonialism in U.S. Art Education Space", Asian Art and Culture Interest Group Forum 1, 2026 National Art Education Association Convention, Chicago, USA (March 5-7, 2026)
Zhang Yilin, "Chiron’s Room: A Text for Virtual Therapy Situation", Astrology: Creative Inspiration, Epistemic Pathways, and Arts-Based Research Conference, London Arts-Based Research Center, UK (April 9-10, 2024)
Artist Workshops
Exquisite Eggs, Tate Modern, Artist of Collaborative Workshop London, UK, 2023
"The Eagle Dream of Madame Darget", THE VIA COMBUSTA, Shanghai, CN, 2024
Selected Artist Interviews, Publications, and Media
Artist Interview, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA, USA, 2026
Featured Artist, Arts in Square Magazine, Issue 9, 2026
Featured Artist, Divide Magazine, Issue 14, 2025
Artist featured in “Inter-Youth ‘1+1’: Twenty Artist Groups and Their ‘Reasons for Painting,’” Phoenix Art, 2023
Featured Artist, Glimpse, London, UK, 2023
Artwork featured in “How Jurors Viewed an Award Determined by Social Media Likes,” Art Ba-Ba, 2021
National Scholarship Interview, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, CN, 2019