Lilan Yang - Curriculum Vitae 📽️

Born in Chongqing, China
Lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2022, MFA in Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2019, BS in Computer Engineering, Minor in Art + Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

2025, Re/constructing Memories: A Contemporary Chinese Experimental Animation Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2024, Aide-Mémoire, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2023, Nowhere Near, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

2025-2028, Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2025, SHED Projects Winter Residency, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2025, MassMoCA General Residency, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
2025, BAL Residency, Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
2024, Millay Arts Core Residency, Austerlitz, New York, USA
2023, Gallery 263 Artist-in-Residence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2023, I-Park Residency, East Haddam, Connecticut, USA

2025, City of Boston Opportunity Fund, The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2025, Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
2024, Best Experimental Short Film, Boston Short Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2023, Award for Excellence, East Asian Experimental Competition, Image Forum Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2023, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, New York, USA
2023, Lightpress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle, Washington, USA
2022, Interlace Emergency Grant, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2021, RISD Graduate Commons Grant, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

2026, Ephemere Group Exhibition, Gallery Conceal Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (forthcoming)
2025, Galleria Civica Gian Battista Bosio, Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Italy
2025, Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery, Galerie Met, Berlin, Germany
2025, The Unreliable Narrator, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Bristish Columbia, Canada
2023, Atlas, Foxy Production, New York, New York, USA
2023, Off the Screen, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2022, Making Moves, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2022, RISD Grad Show, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2022, Of Soiled Body, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

2025, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Washington, USA
2025, Strangloscope – Experimental Video/Film, Audio, Performance International Festival, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2024, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland, UK
2023, Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, New York, USA
2023, Antimatter [media art] festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2023, Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2023, Image Forum Festival, Theater Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2023, Noise Spectrum, PROCESS Experimental Film Festival, Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
2023, Beijing International Short Film Festival, The Goethe-Institut Beijing, Beijing, China
2023, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2022, MONO NO AWARE XVI, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2022, Mekas 100, Ultra Cinema Festival, Mexico City, Mexico

Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound, No. 7, Edited by Sherah Bloor, Harvard Divinity School, 2025
Dancing and different ways of seeing at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Words by Xuanlin Tham, Little White Lies, May 31, 2024
highlight: CYCLES AND RHYTHMS by Jacquet Kehm, Petrichor Magazine, November 27, 2023
Five Questions with Filmmaker Lilan Yang, Interview by Delia Harrington, Boston Art Review, August 16, 2023
The Perfect Human, Analog Cookbook Issue #6, the University of North Carolina Press, December 2022
Everything Comes Full Circle, Masters Theses, RISD Digital Commons, June 2022