Meng-Yu Yan Biography

Born 1992. Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

EDUCATION

2018-2020
Master of Fine Arts (Research) funded by the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, University of New South Wales Art & Design

2011-15
University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours with Dean’s Award) and Bachelor of Arts (English Literature)

RESIDENCIES

2022
The Lock-Up, Newcastle, Australia

2019
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
DOUBLE WITNESS, Australian National University, Canberra
HEAVEN; JUST ANOTHER RUIN, Dominik Mersch Gallery Online
Double Parallax, collaboration with Anna May Kirk, The Cube at Mosman Art Gallery
Tracing the Rupture, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Powerhouse Photography Late, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2022
Click & Collecting: New Works from the Studio, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Playground, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
Transcending Bodies, PhotoAccess, Canberra
Where Shadows Meet, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
The Moon’s New Fury, group exhibition, KINGS Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne

2021
Home Planet, created for 4A Digital, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
CALDERA360, online exhibition
After Dark, Art Month group exhibition, Sydney Living Museum, Hyde Park Barracks
Disobedient Daughters, group exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

2020 
DOUBLE WITNESS, Dominik Mersch Gallery Online

2019
Arts in Jet Lag, Experimental curatorial project by Yves Chiu, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
CARROUSEL, Open studio exhibition with Virginia Rowlands, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Kudos Live: Intimate Circulation, mail-out exhibition from Paris to Sydney
ECHO CHAMBERS: Art and Endless Reflections, across Deakin University Gallery, Deakin University Library Gallery, and Deakin University Downtown Gallery
SHADOW SHRINE, solo exhibition, AD Space UNSW Art & Design

2018
CALDERA, Eveleigh Works, Supported by the City of Sydney and Underbelly Arts
being / becoming, STACKS Projects
Fundraiser exhibition, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
CONDO: DMG group exhibition, Patricia Conde Galeria, Mexico City
Summer Group Show, Dominik Mersch Gallery
Otherworldly for Art Month, The Bearded Tit
FBi Radio Art Auction, National Art School

2017
OCCULERE, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney
HEAD ON Photo Festival: Finalist for Landscape, NSW Parliament House
For Film’s Sake Festival: Beijing Being screening, video installation at Chinese Garden of Friendship Hall of Longevity
MCA ARTBAR: CURATED BY LOUISE ZHANG, live performance at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
THEY ARE FLYING, Spot81 Gallery, Sydney

2016
Heaps Gay Presents: Totes Gay, Trolley’d Warehouse 
TRANSMUTE, 107 Projects, Sydney
Identity, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney

2015
UNSW Art & Design Annual, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
Outsiders, Imposters and Aliens, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney
Kudos Award: Finalist Exhibition, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Face to Face, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
COLLISION: Collide Magazine Launch, Commune Space, Sydney
GUT: Opening Fundraiser, GUT Space

2014
Sydney Painting Now, MOP Gallery, Sydney
Porosity Studio: Displacement, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China

2013
COFA Annual, UNSW Art & Design Campus, Sydney
ILLUSION, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
After The Mayans, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

2022
China, Taiwan & Queer Conversation on Art by Professor Ari Larissa Heinrich, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Photographic Artist for The Twelve, Australian television series produced for Foxtel by Easy Tiger Productions and Warner Bros Entertainment, starring Sam Neill and Kate Mulvany
Diaphanous Materiality in ‘the moon’s new fury’ review by Nancy Mauro-Fludeby Nancy Mauro-Flude, UN Projects

2019
Echo Chambers: Art and Endless Reflections, Art Guide

2017
OCCULERE: Exhibition Catalogue, essay written by Virginia Rowlands. (ISBN: 978-0-646-97209-1)

2016
Featured artist interview, The Ladies Network: http://theladiesnetwork.com.au/meng-yu-yan/
Grand Illusions, Art, Right Now, “Cool Reflections”, BELLE Magazine, Feb/Mar, p.45

2015
Collide Magazine

2012
Tharunka: Women’s Edition