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Yiwei Gallery, Wuhan (2026)

13/04/2025

STUDIO VISIT | Zhou Yuyue

Born in 1998 in Yixing, Jiangsu, Zhou Yuyue is an artist working across painting, sculpture and installation. He received his MA from the University of the Arts London in 2023 and is currently based in Hangzhou.

Zhou’s practice centers on q***r identity, exploring its place within Chinese society and familial structures. Through his work, he examines the tensions between individual expression and collective norms, addressing the emotional and psychological complexities faced by q***r individuals navigating environments where acceptance remains limited.

Rooted in observations of daily life, Zhou constructs installations that fictionalize reality—transforming ordinary objects into absurd, dramatic scenes. His practice blurs the boundaries between truth and performance, challenging viewers to reconsider their perceptions of intimacy, identity, and authenticity.

Zhou Yuyue’s recent works are currently on view in a duo exhibition with artist Nina K Ekman at Yiwei Gallery Wuhan C Lab.

13/04/2025

Dai Ying 戴瑩
Goddess 08, 2025

Chinese paint, Japanese paint, acrylic paint, marker on Chinese rice paper

89.6cm x 89.6cm

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Dai Ying, born in 1983 in Emei Mountain, Sichuan, China, currently lives in New York, Los Angeles, and Beijing. Dai began practicing art at the age of five, studying Chinese calligraphy and painting. After moving to New York in 2011, she began working as a full-time artist and has been creating ever since. Her works reflect her reflections on gender, desire, and identity politics amidst the experience of the great diaspora, opening new dialogues on women’s rights and post-socialism.

Dai Ying’s artistic endeavors span a wide range of mediums, including mixed-material canvas paintings, large installations, performance art, and video. Growing up amidst this natural, massive energy field, Dai internalized the nurturing forces of the mountain’s water and soil, which have become integral to her artistic practice. Her works explore the political and emotional interplay between the self and the world, examining how personal identity is influenced by the sociopolitical events of her environment.

11/04/2025

Yiwei Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in the San Francisco Art Fair from April 17 to 20, 2025. We will present a solo exhibition featuring artist Liu Tianlian, showcasing her recent silk paintings that focus on immigrant life experiences.
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In Liu’s works, she captures the nuanced experience of immigrant life in American cities—from waiting in public laundromats and visiting Asian-operated nail salons to carrying shopping bags laden with necessities and cutting one’s hair at home to save money. These everyday scenes become portals to explore deeper emotional landscapes and cultural intersections.

Laundromat (2024) exemplifies her approach to cultural hybridity. In Liu’s artistic world, public laundromats are filled with subtle diversity: in the spinning machines, clothes remain constant yet undergo a transformation from soiled to clean; meanwhile, regardless of origin or lifestyle, people from different cultures and backgrounds share the same machines. In her paintings, the contrast between supernatural beings from various cultures inside the machines and her son playing quietly in front creates a vivid juxtaposition—both full of vitality and, through their integrated atmosphere, prompting viewers to contemplate the cultural identity conflicts and binary oppositions faced by immigrants.
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Liu Tianlian
Laundromat, 2024
Ink and Color on Silk
31”x 49” (set of 4)

11/04/2025

Thank you for featuring Yiwei Gallery and artist ✨

10/04/2025

Yiwei Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in the San Francisco Art Fair from April 17 to 20, 2025. We will present a solo exhibition featuring artist Liu Tianlian, showcasing her recent silk paintings that focus on immigrant life experiences.

Liu Tianlian 刘天怜(b. 1987) reimagines the traditional Chinese meticulous brushwork technique (gongbi hua/工笔画) through a contemporary lens. Born in Chongqing, China, she now lives and works between Los Angeles and Beijing. Receiving her BFA and MFA in Chinese painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, her practice evolved to explore themes of cultural identity, psychological introspection, and the tensions of modern society through traditional techniques.

Liu’ work has been exhibited and collected in China and the United States, featured at institutions such as the Long Art Museum (Shanghai), Pearl River Museum of Art (Guangzhou), Hi Art Center (Beijing), Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Shenzhen), Line Gallery (Beijing), GR Gallery (New York), and VILLAGEONEART (New York). Her paintings, often executed on silk with traditional Chinese pigments, creates a distinct narrative to bridge cultural and temporal boundaries.

10/04/2025

Artist: 戴瑩 Dai Ying

Title: 冷風吹啊吹，刺進你我的心 1
Piercing Winds Of The Heart 1, 2025

Size: 29cm x 30cm x 43cm

Material: Reinforced concrete, cotton, cotton gauze, raw silk, Chinese pigment

09/04/2025

Yiwei Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth at San Francisco Art Fair, featuring artist Liu Tianlian’s recent works transforming ordinary spaces into dreamlike explorations of diasporic experience.

Liu Tianlian (b. 1987, Chongqing, China) reimagines traditional Chinese meticulous brushwork (gongbi hua/工笔画) through a contemporary lens. Now based between Los Angeles and Beijing, Liu’s practice bridges traditional techniques with bold narratives, exploring immigrant life, cultural identity, and the tensions of modern society. The works presented are all created since her immigration to the United States in 2023. In these works, Liu has drawn inspiration from immigrant-centered spaces like laundromats, nail salons, and street vendors.

We look forward to welcome you at booth D13 during the San Francisco Art Fair from April 17-20! 🪅💅

09/04/2025

戴瑩 Dai Ying
女神 09 Goddess 09, 2025
Chinese paint, Japanese paint, acrylic paint, marker on Chinese rice paper
96cm x 96cm
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Dai Ying, born in 1983 in Emei Mountain, Sichuan, China, currently lives in New York, Los Angeles, and Beijing. Dai began practicing art at the age of five, studying Chinese calligraphy and painting. After moving to New York in 2011, she began working as a full-time artist and has been creating ever since. Her works reflect her reflections on gender, desire, and identity politics amidst the experience of the great diaspora, opening new dialogues on women’s rights and post-socialism.

Dai Ying’s artistic endeavors span a wide range of mediums, including mixed-material canvas paintings, large installations, performance art, and video. Growing up amidst this natural, massive energy field, Dai internalized the nurturing forces of the mountain’s water and soil, which have become integral to her artistic practice. Her works explore the political and emotional interplay between the self and the world, examining how personal identity is influenced by the sociopolitical events of her environment.

09/04/2025

Gathering photos from our audience at Yiwei Gallery Wuhan Contemporary Art Lab – Pt. 4!

It’s incredible to see Ekman and Zhou’s duo exhibition, Secret Garden, so warmly received. We’ve been getting amazing photos and enthusiastic responses—thank you all for sharing your experience with us!

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On View Now at Yiwei Gallery • Wuhan Contemporary Art Lab: The Secret Garden: A Duo Exhibition

Featuring Artists: Nina K Ekman
Zhou Yuyue 周宇越

Duration:
Mar 21 - Jun 22, 2025

07/04/2025

Gathering photos from our audience at Yiwei Gallery Wuhan Contemporary Art Lab – Pt. 3!

It’s incredible to see Ekman and Zhou’s duo exhibition, Secret Garden, so warmly received. We’ve been getting amazing photos and enthusiastic responses—thank you all for sharing your experience with us!

07/04/2025

This interview was originally published on ARTnews China.

ARTnews: From a professional artist’s perspective, how has your perception and approach evolved compared to when you were just starting out?

Day Ying: First, I’ve become much more attuned to detail. I often work with xuan paper, a notoriously difficult material to control. Each sheet, being handmade, has subtle differences that affect how the ink spreads. This requires extensive practice to develop a “feel” for the material—until I, as the creator, become one with it.

Second, when I was younger, I had an uncontrollable urge for self-expression—an almost hormonal impulse that fueled my work. My creations were grand, outward, almost declarative. But hormones only last three to five years. A professional artist cannot rely solely on that energy forever. Now, I’m learning to pull back, to let that radical creative force flow inward, turning it into an undercurrent rather than an eruption.

At the same time, experience itself can become a constraint, another kind of conditioning beyond hormones—and nothing is more dangerous for an artist than falling into routine. That’s why I seek out every moment that pushes me beyond my own experience. For every exhibition, I demand something new. Repeating old works over and over would only make me feel suffocated.

07/04/2025

Gathering photos from our audience at Yiwei Gallery Wuhan Contemporary Art Lab – Pt. 2!

It’s incredible to see Ekman and Zhou’s duo exhibition, Secret Garden, so warmly received. We’ve been getting amazing photos and enthusiastic responses—thank you all for sharing your experience with us!

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