Yuan jiatong
Education
2023-2024 MA Art and Ecology, the Goldsmiths university of London, Distinction
2012-2016 BA Photography, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Biography
Yuan Jiatong is an artist based in London and Beijing. Her work explores themes of domesticity and wildness, gendered bodies and power dynamics, employing the concept of ‘becoming’ to challenge the traditional binary frameworks rooted in her own cultural background. She examines spatial features of domestic dwellings, often presented as a place of safety, as sites of capitalist and patriarchal control. Her creative process draws on embodied experience, observation and reinterpretation, utilizing materials and imagery from daily life to reshape familiar symbols into tools for critique and imagination. Through fluid, dynamic painterly gestures and text, her work invites audiences to reconsider the hidden tensions between social expectations, freedom and identity in the contemporary world.
Jiatong’s work has been shown internationally in exhibitions including ‘Daphine's Daughters’, Mey Gallery (2025), Los Angeles, USA；‘In Days of Heatwave II: Among the Hydrocommons’, Safehouse 2 (2024), London, UK; ‘Symbiont: collective threads of Ecological study’, Hypha Studios (2024), London, UK; ‘I am rooted, but I flow’, Mey Gallery & Maison Lune Gallery (2024), Los Angeles, USA; Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Shenyang, China; and FujiFilm x-space, Shanghai, China.
Publication
Article ‘Tomorrow is a lie’ , The journal of Art and Ecology, Volume 3; ISSN2977-0602
Research work,Zine: In Days of Heatwave II: Among the Hydrocommons
Award
2025 Jackson Art Prize longlist
Education
2023-2024 MA Art and Ecology, the Goldsmiths university of London, Distinction
2012-2016 BA Photography, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Biography
Yuan Jiatong is an artist based in London and Beijing. Her work explores themes of domesticity and wildness, gendered bodies and power dynamics, employing the concept of ‘becoming’ to challenge the traditional binary frameworks rooted in her own cultural background. She examines spatial features of domestic dwellings, often presented as a place of safety, as sites of capitalist and patriarchal control. Her creative process draws on embodied experience, observation and reinterpretation, utilizing materials and imagery from daily life to reshape familiar symbols into tools for critique and imagination. Through fluid, dynamic painterly gestures and text, her work invites audiences to reconsider the hidden tensions between social expectations, freedom and identity in the contemporary world.
Jiatong’s work has been shown internationally in exhibitions including ‘Daphine's Daughters’, Mey Gallery (2025), Los Angeles, USA；‘In Days of Heatwave II: Among the Hydrocommons’, Safehouse 2 (2024), London, UK; ‘Symbiont: collective threads of Ecological study’, Hypha Studios (2024), London, UK; ‘I am rooted, but I flow’, Mey Gallery & Maison Lune Gallery (2024), Los Angeles, USA; Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Shenyang, China; and FujiFilm x-space, Shanghai, China.
Publication
Article ‘Tomorrow is a lie’ , The journal of Art and Ecology, Volume 3; ISSN2977-0602
Research work,Zine: In Days of Heatwave II: Among the Hydrocommons
Award
2025 Jackson Art Prize longlist