Occupation Artist, film, curator Simplified Chinese 殷子静 Yale Romanization Yān Jíjihng | Website www.chijangyin.com Hanyu Pinyin Jyutping Jan1 Zi2-zing6 | |
Born 1973 Guangzhou, China | ||
for the unseen by chi jang yin at asian art biennial
Chi Jang Yin (殷子静; born 1973) is a Chinese-born American artist, filmmaker, and curator. She was born in Guangzhou, China in 1973, and her family moved to the United States when she was five, just two years after the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Her work comments on past and present Chinese culture with themes such as displacement, alienation, the absence of representation, memory in narrative, and others. Currently, Yin is an associate professor of Media Art at the Department of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University.
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Photography
Yin's conceptual photography series consist of digital photographs she takes when she returns to China every year. In her Chinese Playground series (2005-2010) she uses the theme of grids to examine individualism as reconstructed and intertwined with infrastructures of contemporary culture. Her other series, The Zone (2009-2011) was shot over the course of three years in China. It portrays migrant workers in Guangdong, China, and investigates the performative gesture of body language in the setting of collective gatherings.
Video Art
Yin's experimental documentaries usually center around China and Chinese culture as well as interpersonal relationships from a small to large scale. Yin's video art have been featured in numerous film exhibitions, galleries, museums, and film festivals (including Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival in the Netherlands (IDFA), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kassel Dokumentarfilm-und-Videofest in Germany, The Contemporary Center of Art in Bulgaria, The Rome Independent Film Festival in Italy, The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice, Poland, The Cheekwood Art Museum, The Phoenix Art Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Gene Siskel Film Center, The Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley, and have won several awards.
Filmography and awards
Library and Museum Collections
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (library); Nagoya University, Film Library, Japan (library); University of Iowa Library, Iowa City, IA (library); University of Nevada, Reno (library); Film Art Foundation, San Francisco; DePaul Art Museum, permanent collection, Chicago; Video Data Bank, The School of Art Institute of Chicago