Yixiao Yao is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist/researcher. They utilise texts, sound, images, paint, clay,
letters, common substances, and their own body in work. Using real, constructed, mediated
materials in and out of archives they are able to compose, curate intra-actional exchanges, and
invite the participation of active viewership, readership and thinkership. They have curated/participated/published work in
Ohklahomo, Mayfield, Open Art Studio, SITE Gallery, The LGBTQ+
Intergenerational Dialogue Project, Friends Gallery, and No Nation Art Lab.
Yixiao holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Visual and Critical Studies, and a Master of Arts from Rice University, Department of Religion, where they currently work.
They are based in Chicago.
Email:
ny16@rice.edu
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