YAO CONG (b. 1992 Xi’an, China). Lives and works in China.
EDUCATION
2017
School of Fine Art, Royal College of Art, MA
2014
School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, BA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
A Mountain of Closeness, Tunnel Project, Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
2021
Flies beyond the Clouds, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2018
Exhibition on the Table_Yao Cong: videos compilation, Arthub, Shanghai, China
2016
Pleasure in Progress, Espronceda art centre, Barcelona, Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024
Anywhere But Here, Fake Project, Xi'an, China
Berlin Fashion Week/Video Screening, Oxi, Berlin, Germany
When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
Flash Mob, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2023
Filter Realism, AMNUA/Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China
Flash Mob, Chongqing Times Art Museum, Chongqing, China
My Generation, The Art of Post-90s, Shanxi Contemporary Art Museum, Taiyuan, China
ART SG_FILM, Fabricated Realities, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2022
Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
Chengdu International Photo Festival, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Re-wilding, Chinese Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2021
New Species V, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2020
Golden Flow - Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2020, CHAO Art Center, Beijing, China
Variations of Space-online exhibition, Xi’an Contemporary Art Museum & Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, China
2019
Right Behind Your Eyes, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival, Xiangshan Art Commune, Hangzhou, China
Film Action Screening Tour, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Xi’an, Chongqing, Wuhan, etc.
2018
From/To: the Frontier of Chinese Art Education, San Francisco, USA
HOLOGRAPHIA-International Intermedia Art Festival, Beijing, China
ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival 2018-Chinese Short Film Awards, Shanghai, China
14th Athens Digital Arts Festival, the Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
New Species II-Mixed Media Art Invitation Exhibition, ChengduMOCA, China
WOW.14/Ukraine, Municipal Gallery & University of Arts Kiev, Kharkiv & Kiev, Ukraine
14th Beijing Independent Film Festival, Beijing, China
Inter_nal Movements, Museu del Disseny de Barcelona & Espronceda Center for Art & Culture, Barcelona, Spain
Exhibition on the Table - Yao Cong (solo), Arthub, Shanghai, China
2017
VIDEONALE.16, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
8th International Contemporary Art Fair ARTVILNIUS, Vilnius, Lithuania
Loop Barcelona-City Screen 2017, Espronceda Center for Art & Culture, Barcelona, Spain
10th Beijing Queer Film Festival, Beijing, China
the Beholder, Somos Art House, Berlin, Germany
Proyector-Festival of Videoart 10th, Exhibition Hall El Aguila, Madrid, Spain
Experimental Film and Video Exhibition 2017, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
FONLAD Festival, Water Museum, Coimbra, Portugal
Festival Of Recorded Movement, Vancouver, Canada
13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Historic Center of Athens, Athens, Greece
Fuse, Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden
New Species-the Experimental Media Invitation Exhibition, Chengdu, China
Filmideo 2017 Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA
whatsherface #4-online women’s cinema, Chicago, USA
Video Vortex XI, Kochi-Muzeris, Kerala, India
Becoming, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016
European Academic Image and Art Festival, Porto, Portugal
Modern Panic VII, Newspeak House, London, UK
the Bedlam Film Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh, UK
OFF THE WALL, Arts+Literature Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2016 (Screening), Hong Kong
ART DUDAI, Mina A’slam, Al Sufouh Road, Umm Suqeim, Dubai, UAE
WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2015
Helsinki Festival Focus China-25X25 film showcase, Helsinki, Finland
Power of Education, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, China
2014
Luo Zhongli Scholarship Exhibition, Chongqing, China
Journey of a Thousand Miles: National Outstanding Art Graduation Works, Hubei, China
Surface of the Kingdom, Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
7th Beijing Queer Film Festival, Beijing, China
11th Beijing Independent Film Festival, Beijing, China
CAISSA RISING ARTING-2014 Annual Nomination Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Degree Show of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Luoping International Photography Festival, Yunnan, China
2013
West Bank -Architecture and Contemporary Art Biennial Exhibition (Photography & Video), Shanghai, China
14th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, 798 Space Station, Beijing, China
Media Theater: Cultural Chanel, Guangzhou Opera House, China
LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, PANELS & VISITING ARTIST POSITIONS
2024-2020
Artist Lecture & Course, Experimental Arts Department/Film, Photography & Animation Department, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
2024
On the flux of ‘Image-making’, EAaD school, Xi’an Eurasia University, Xi’an, China
2023
The Reality of ‘Body’ Delivery, AMNUA/Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China
2022
The Myth of Tides: Artist Talk, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
2021
Xi’an Art Book Fair: Artist Talk, Xi’an Film Industry, Xi’an, China
2020
Wild History-Artist Talk, Lanzhou Contemporary & Suchi Gallery, Lanzhou, China
Artist Lecture & Course, Experimental Arts Department, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
2019
Artist Lecture & Workshop, Film, Photography & Animation Department, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China
Becoming/Art Salon-the Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, China
2023
Artist in Residency (invited guest), Gazetteer-novel, Xi’an, China
2022
Artist in Residency, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
2020
Northwest Residency Program, PLATESPACE & Cube Art Guan, Gansu, China
2019
AME Film Project-Film Creative Workshop, Hangzhou, China
2016
Artist in Residency, Espronceda Art & Culture Centre-awarded by RCA, Barcelona, Spain
Shortlist, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016, ICA, London
2014
Winner of the Luo Zhongli Scholarship
Winner of the Gold Award for Degree Show in China Academy of Art
Winner of the Lin Fengmian Scholarship of China Academy of Art
2013
Winner of the Gold Award for Champion Team in the First Greater China Film and Television Design Competition
2012
Winner of the Eighth Place in Zhejiang Sports Dance Championship
COLLECTIONS
Royal College of Art, UK
China Academy of Art, China
Li Xianting’s Film Fund, China
Espronceda Center for Art & Culture, Spain
