Jiang Yifan

born 1994 Tianjin China

lives in New York USA

Jiang Yifan is a Canadian artist currently based in New York City. Jiang received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University (2021) and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver.

Jiang's works were on view in several group exhibitions in 2025, including Beyond Borders Awakening Anchors at Art No Bounds, Hangzhou, China; Algorithms of Longing, curated by Xin Wang, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong; AI, as seen at the End of Ownership, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China. Along with a number of exhibitions at Meliksetian | Briggs in Dallas both solo and group, recent exhibitions include Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society Texas, Houston, USA; To your eternity: The 4th Future of Today Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Solo exhibitions include I Wish Dying Could be More Like This, New York, 2026; Zero-sum Game, Copenhagen, 2022, and in the same year, joint exhibition with James J.A. Mercer, Vacation, Roswell Museum, USA among others.

Jiang was a resident at the prestigious Core Residency Program at the the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in the years 2022 to 2024. The site-specific installation Off the Wall: Yifan Jiang, Cafeteria is the result of this residency project and is on view at Moody Centre for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, USA, until September 4, 2026.

In 2025, Alisan Fine Arts included Jiang's works in group exhibition Painting as Method, and art fairs The Armory Show in New York, and Art Basel Miami Beach. In the same year, Alisan's booth presentation at Shanghai West Bund Art & Deisgn marks Jiang’s debut at the art fair.

BIOGRAPHY
1994 Born in Tianjin, China
2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York, USA
Visiting Faculty, Bennington College, Vermont, USA
Present Chinese Canadian artist based in New York, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026

I Wish Dying Could be More Like This, 56 Henry, New York, USA

2025-2026

Off the Wall: Yifan Jiang, Cafeteria, Moody Centre for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, USA (until 4 Sept)

2025

As you like it, Gallery OM, Shanghai, China
Final Descent, Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, China

2023

A bouquet of senses, Meliksetian|Briggs, Dallas, USA

2022

Zero-sum Game, Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

Names for airy nothings, Meliksetian|Briggs, Los Angeles, USA
Medium-sized dry goods, Meliksetian|Briggs, Los Angeles, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

45th Anniversary: Home and Abroad, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, USA

2025

Art Basel Miami Beach, Alisan Fine Arts, Miami Beach Convention Centre, Miami Beach, USA
West Bund Art & Design Fair, Alisan Fine Arts, West Bund International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
The Armory Show, Javits Center, New York, USA
Beyond Borders Awakening Anchors, Art No Bounds, Hangzhou, China
Second Body, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
AI as seen from the end of ownership, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Algorithms of Longing, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
Painting as a Method, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, USA
Blood as Thick as Water, Plato Gallery, New York, USA

2024

Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society Texas, Houston, USA
Mirror Mirror, Meliksetian|Briggs, Dallas, USA
Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA
Spring Sprang Sprung, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China

2023

To your eternity- Art and Tech Biennale, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The secret realm of thrills and concealment, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China
Night Skyline Stars, Laura Gallery, Houston, USA
Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA

2022

Vacation, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas; Roswell Museum, Roswell, USA

2021

Desire Encapsulated, Make Room, Los Angeles, USA
Welcome, Tomato Mouse, New York, USA
In response: We fight to build a free world, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2020

The practice of everyday life, Meliksetian|Briggs, Los Angeles, USA
Art on the Grid, New York Public Art Fund, New York, USA
M.I.O.K, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, USA

2019

Shadow Tongue, Duplex, Vancouver, Canada

2017

Pivots and Spins, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Just go on talking, Project Space, Vancouver, Canada

2016

Precarium, Plaza Project Space, Richmond, Canada
Careful Counters, Skylight Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2025

University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

2024

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA

2023

Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Museum of Moving Image, New York; REDCAT, Los Angeles; 2220 Arts, Los Angeles; Block Cinema, Chicago, USA
Tabor Film Festival, Desinić, Hrvatsko zagorje, Croatia
World Panorama, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
Mid-Length, Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK
Festival of Hand-drawn Animation, Tomato Mouse, New York, USA
POMOFOMO, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

2022

Edge of Frame, London International Animation Festival, London, UK

2020

States of Emergency, London International Animation Festival, London, UK
Commiserate Chicago, Media Art Festival, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2022-2024 The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
2021 Roswell Artist-in-resident Program, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
2019 Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania, USA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Roswell Museum / RAiR Foundation, USA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023 "To your Eternity", by Ekalan Hou, Art Forum
"On contemporary moving image", by Xianhui Meng, Vogue China
"Going Dutch, On the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam", by Beatrice Loayza, Art Forum
"The magical realism of Yifan Jiang", by Terri Provencal. Patron Magazine
2021 "Yifan Jiang: 'Names for airy nothings’ Where Reality and Fantasy Collide", by Jody Zellen, ArtNowLA
2020 MFA Spotlight, Art Forum