Dafu Yan

Dafu Yan is an artist born in Changde, Hunan Province, in 1994. He graduated from the Department of Oil Painting at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in Shenyang in July 2016. In January 2020, he earned a master's degree from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Currently, he is one of the owners of 33ml Offspace and works and lives in Hangzhou and Shanghai. His works span installation, painting, and moving images. The main themes of his practice center on abstract social issues, particularly the interactive relationships between energy, matter, and information within the context of globalization. Through the study of specific issues, he aims to transform these concepts into visual media works that incorporate subjective aesthetics.

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Solo Exhibition:

Hunting, BLANKgallery, Shanghai, China, 2024;

Logistics, Imagokinetics, Hangzhou, China, 2023.

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Group Exhibiton:

Human Scapes, BLANKgallery, Shanghai, China, 2024;

Strait is the Gate, MC Gallery, Shenzhen, China, 2024;

A Way of Crossing Space, Levant Art gallery, Shanghai, China, 2023;

Lightness of being, Object Momento gallery, Shanghai, China, 2023;

Flux Zone, BLANKgallery, Shanghai, China, 2023;

Idea Images, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China, 2023;

lín láng mǎn mù, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China, 2023;

Unknown, 33ml Offspace, Shanghai, China, 2022;

Hereditary Territory, Shanghai Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2021;

Freefall, 33ml Offspace, Shanghai, China, 2021;

Backlight, 33ml Offspace, Shanghai, China, 2020;

Fragile Relation, Seewell International Art Center, Fuzhou, China, 2020; etc.