Yezi Lin
Guangzhou /Hangzhou/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 MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Fine Art

Prize

            2022 BanShan Photography Award, CN & JP
            2023 Scholarship of Summer Academy, Salzburg, AT
            2023 The Fifth 1839 Photography Excellence Award, CN


Exhibition & Events 

2025     The Grateful Debt, Screening, WINONA, Brussels, BE

2025     Fronts (b), Delivery(Display Distribute with Yezi Lin), WINONA, Brussels ,BE

2024      The Trance of Treat, Group show, Snake, Give Me A Chance of Rebirth, Video, Hainan, CN

2024     “HiShorts!” Short Filmfestival, screening of The Bodhi Tree in Bosch’s Garden ( collaborater ), Xiamen, CN

2024     “Six of one, half dozen the other”, Group Show, Snake, Give Me A Chance of Rebirth , Video, installation, Piet Zwart Institue, NL

2024     Wish You Happy, Group Show,  The Palace of Memory, Photography,  Installations,Contemporary Image Museum of Chengdu, CN

2023     The Palace of Memory, Solo Show,  Photography and Installations Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam, NL,

2023     Kamoulux, Group Show, Photography, Audio and Installations, RIB Gallery, Rotterdam, NL



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