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 received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honours from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Visual Critical Studies. They received their Master of Arts degree from Rice University, Department of Religion.
They are currently based in Chicago.
Email:
ny16@rice.edu
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