Yezi Lin
Guangzhou /Shanghai/Rotterdam
Guangzhou /Shanghai/Rotterdam
Yezi Lin (b. China) is an artist whose practice interweaves
film, performance, and writing. Shaped by long-term experiences
of living and working across cultures, her work engages with
themes of diaspora, surveillance, identity, illegal migration,
decolonization, and anarchism. Employing a rebellious yet
humorous symbolic language of self-representation, she uses art as
an act of intervention—questioning institutions, cultural rights, and
human relations under globalization, while addressing the fractures
and tensions of cross-cultural existence. Drawing on colonial
histories, cultural heritage, archives, and literature, Yezi constructs
intimate yet politically charged narrative spaces that begin from the
individual and resonate collectively.
Education
2022-2024 MA Piet Zwart Institute, Fine Art, Rotterdam, NL
Awards
2022 BanShan Photography Award, CN & JP
2023 Scholarship of Summer Academy, Salzburg, AT
2023 The Fifth 1839 Photography Excellence Award, CN
Exhibitions & Events
2026 Fisimatenten, Offenbach, GR
2026 Youth Palace, Rockbund Art Museum, ShangHai, CN
2026 Video: Experienced Events Differently, Depthend Gallery, Seoul, KR
2026 Friends in Spring, Imaginary Z, HangZhou, CN
2026 Sea, Seam, Sawn, 13B Gallery, Seoul, KR
2025 Under Light of Moon and Sun, 99Canal, NYC, USA
2025 Friends and Neighbours, Winona, Brussels, BE
2025 Staging Subjectivity: Experimental Films in Autoethnography, The Night Aquarium, LA, USA
2025 Dialogues with The Shadow, JiHuo Art Space, Chengdu, CN
2025 Fronts (b), Delivery(Display Distribute with Yezi Lin), WINONA, Brussels ,BE
2025 Who is Fictitious Past, Group Exhibition, PHOTISM, Chengdu, CN
2024 The Trance of Treat, Hainan, CN
2024 “HiShorts!” Short Filmfestival, The Bodhi Tree in Bosch’s Garden, Xiamen, CN
2024 Six of one, half dozen the other, Piet Zwart Institue, NL
2024 Wish You Happy, The Palace of Memory, Contemporary Image Museum of Chengdu, CN
2023 The Palace of Memory, Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam, NL,
2023 Kamoulux, Group Show, Photography, Audio and Installations, RIB Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
︎ Instagram
︎ yezilin53@gmail.com
Education
2022-2024 MA Piet Zwart Institute, Fine Art, Rotterdam, NL
Awards
2022 BanShan Photography Award, CN & JP
2023 Scholarship of Summer Academy, Salzburg, AT
2023 The Fifth 1839 Photography Excellence Award, CN
Exhibitions & Events
2026 Fisimatenten, Offenbach, GR
2026 Youth Palace, Rockbund Art Museum, ShangHai, CN
2026 Video: Experienced Events Differently, Depthend Gallery, Seoul, KR
2026 Friends in Spring, Imaginary Z, HangZhou, CN
2026 Sea, Seam, Sawn, 13B Gallery, Seoul, KR
2025 Under Light of Moon and Sun, 99Canal, NYC, USA
2025 Friends and Neighbours, Winona, Brussels, BE
2025 Staging Subjectivity: Experimental Films in Autoethnography, The Night Aquarium, LA, USA
2025 Dialogues with The Shadow, JiHuo Art Space, Chengdu, CN
2025 Fronts (b), Delivery(Display Distribute with Yezi Lin), WINONA, Brussels ,BE
2025 Who is Fictitious Past, Group Exhibition, PHOTISM, Chengdu, CN
2024 The Trance of Treat, Hainan, CN
2024 “HiShorts!” Short Filmfestival, The Bodhi Tree in Bosch’s Garden, Xiamen, CN
2024 Six of one, half dozen the other, Piet Zwart Institue, NL
2024 Wish You Happy, The Palace of Memory, Contemporary Image Museum of Chengdu, CN
2023 The Palace of Memory, Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam, NL,
2023 Kamoulux, Group Show, Photography, Audio and Installations, RIB Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
︎ Instagram
︎ yezilin53@gmail.com