尹韵雅 Yin Yunya (b. 1990, Sichuan, China) graduated from Beijing Film Academy and holds an MA from the University of the Arts London.Her practice explores how vitality emerges through paradox and contradiction. Her approach is based on personal experience, treats entities as “words,” investigating a shared language between nature and humans. Rooted in contemporary contexts, her conceptual approach brings together artistic and literary traditions, material exploration, and metaphysical inquiry, tracing the relationships between the external world and inner perception.Working across photography, performance, video, and interactive installation, she often engages ecological materials, emphasizing minimal environmental impact.Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel, Paris Photo, and various biennales. She has also participated in international residency programs supported by organizations such as the Deauville Festival, the German-Chinese Cultural Exchange Foundation, and the British Council.,her works have been collected by various art museums and foundations.
EDUCATIONS&ACADEMIC POSITIONS：
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2015.
BA Photography, Beijing Film Academy, 2009-2013.
Lecturer,Sep,2017-Present, Academy of Fine Art, Chengdu Normal University.
PHD Student at Beijing Film Academy, 01 Sep.2022_present
AWARDS：
Golden Hibiscus Exploration Award, The 2nd Chengdu International Photo Festival.2024
Winner of PDN Photo Annual ,2016.
Nominated for Magnum & Photo London's Graduate Photographer Award 2017.
Nominated for Magnum & Photo London's Graduate Photographer Award 2016.
Selected Exhibition & Residency:
Solo Exhibition:
Untied Boat, 09.5-16.6,2024,Threeshadows plus 3 Gallery,Beijing,China.
Moonlights,Reflects on the Empty, 20.11-12.12,2023, ENSITU,Japan.
Between the Tides,25.2-09.4.2023,Chengdu,Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum.
Meet at the end of River,12.3-24.6,2022,Icecle Space, Shanghai,China.
Go to a Place away from home,4.2-5.24,2020,Alter Gallery, Shanghai,China.
Group Exhibitions:
Echoes of Her Century - A Global Exhibition of Women's Art, Long Museum, Shanghai,2026
Chengdu Biennale Pulse of Life,Chengdu,China,08.02- 23.08.2026.
Low-Density Drift, ShanghART SUHE ,China, 2026.
When the Wind Turns East Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,2025-2026
The Rambles of a Wandering Adaptist，Free Sky,Shenzhen,China,2025
Chinese Photography,20th Century and beyond,Jimei Art Centre,Xiamen,China,2025
THE NATURAL CONTRACT:Technology,Media,Human,Nature, Tsinghua University Art Museum,Beijing,China,2025
Lie between,ShanghART, Beijing,China,2025
From Hen to egg,ShanghART, Shanghai,China,2025
Sailing Home, Zhoushan Art Museum,Zhoushan,China,2024
Words For the Future,ASE Foundation, Shanghai, China,2024
Westboud Art&Design, Shanghai, China.2024
ParisPhoto, Paris, France,2024
2nd Wuhan Biennale Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China 1 October 2024 – 31 May 2025
Photofairs Shanghai,2024,China.
Le LivieàVenir,10.5-28.6.2024,Legume Gallery,Chengdu,China.
Common Portrait,Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,2024,Janpan.
Syntetic Ecology, 31.12,2023-15.3,2024,Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum,Chengdu,China.
Poetics along with the Time, 17.07-16.09. 2023. White Night Space,Chengdu, China.
Extreme: Masterpiece,18.11-30.11, 2022,Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum,Chengdu, China.
A Room of our Own ,Look Photo Biennial 17.10-21.12,2019, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool,UK.
Imaginary Adolescence, PLANCHE(S) CONTACT FESTIVAL,20.10 -27. 11, 2016. Deauville, France.
In the forest of things, Atrium Gallery, London College of Communication, UK. 2016.
London Project, Camberwell College of Arts. Aug,2014.
Country doctor, Beijing Film Academy, Jun,2013.
RESIDENCY:
Kunst IN Didalog, GEKA,Berlin,German.2024
Sasso Residecy,Vairno,Switzerland,2024
PLANCHE(S) CONTACT FESTIVAL,20th July, 2016. Deauville,France.
Art Residency: 'Allegra Projects',July,2017. St Moritz,Switzerland.
Christie's Charity Auction, 27,Dec, 2017,Badrutts Palace, St Moritz, Switzerland.
FAIRS：
ArtBasel,Switzerland
ParisPhoto, Paris, France
Art Shenzhen,China
Art021,Shanghai,China
Art021,Chengdu,China
Tokyo Gendai,Japan
Beijing Dangdai Art Fair
Photofairs Shanghai,China
West Bund Art and Design,Shangha
Jingart,Beijing
Media&Publish:
Book:Chinese Photography,20th Century and beyond.Ed.RongRong,Zhejiang Photographic Press,2025
Drama Between the Tides:The Art of Yin Yunya-Britta Erickson, Aesthetica Aagazine,2025
Reflecting oneself in the details - Lu Mingjun's review of the exhibition "Untied Boat", Xinrui Weekly, Issue 129
Seeking Tatents: "Yin Yunya: Freedom, Contradiction, Fragility", Life Monthly, July 2024
Yin Yunya: Diving into the inner part of the cracks on the surface of the object, Art Centimeters, July 2024
Yin Yunya exiled in nature, hunting in high sensitivity, Hi Art, June 2024
Artist Dictionary, Yunya Yin, Aesthetica Magazine UK,Jan,2023.
Dialogue: Interiview with Yunya Yin, Fotovideo Magazine CHINA,July,2022.
Essay：letters by Swallow,Yunya. Yin,Xiaojing,JiaMagazine CHINA,10.2022.
Essay：The wet intertidal zone. Yunya Yin, Xiaojing,JiaMagazine,CHINA 09.2021.
Book: Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now’. (Ed. Max Houghton, Finoa Rogers. Published by Thames&Hudson) Aug, 2017.
PDN of the day: A Russia Family. 26 Sep 2017
Book: Planche(s) Contact,2016. Published by Filigranes Éditions. Nov,2016.
The Week, Captured: The languid beauty 126hour train trip. Sep.2016.
Aesthetica Magazine: Next Generation. Issue 72,2016.
L’Oeil de la Photographie: Photo du Jour, 16 Sep, 2016.(online)
Interviewed by Aesthetica Magazine: Next Generation 2016: Fragmented Narratives, 15.Sep,2016.(online)
BBC NEWS: Photo students get to the heart of the matter, 15 Jan 2016.
Public collections:
German-Chinese Cultural Exchange (GeKA)Foundation, German.
Long Museum,China.
ASE Foundation,China.
Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum.China.
PLANCHE(S) CONTACT,City of Deauville, France.
Allegra Projects,Switzerland.