LILAN YANG
Born in Chongqing, China
Lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
EDUCATION
- 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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2023, Nowhere Near, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 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, Transitory Void, Digital + Media Biennial, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 2022, 1 + 1 = 22, Digital + Media Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- 2022, Of Soiled Body, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
RESIDENCIES
- 2024, Millay Arts Core Residency, Austerlitz, New York, USA (forthcoming)
- 2023, Gallery 263 Artist-in-Residence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- 2023, I-Park Residency, East Haddam, Connecticut, USA
SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS
- 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, Theather 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
AWARDS
- 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
SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Dancing and different ways of seeing at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Words by Xuanlin Tham, Little White Lies, May 31, 2024
- Meet with Lilan Yang | Artist + Experimental Filmmaker, Shoutout LA, October 16, 2023
- Five Questions with Filmmaker Lilan Yang, Interview by Delia Harrington, Boston Art Review, August 16, 2023
- Artist-in-residence Lilan Yang, Pearl, Gallery 263, July 18, 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