Yuxing Chen (b.1998, China) is an artist based in London and Shanghai.

By reflecting on Chinoiserie in historical and contemporary contexts, she explores how Orientalism has been adopted, romanticised and reproduced by the West. Her photographic practice focuses on the issue of decolonisation, on difference and the gaze of the exotic.


Selected Exhibitions:

2025   Culture Identified, Christie's, London, UK

2024   The 9th Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
             Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China
             Encontros da Imagem International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Braga, PT
             Copenhagen Photo Festival Group Exhibition, Copenhagen, DK
             Athens Photo Festival, Main Exhibition, Athens, GR 
             Interstice of Shedding, Stasis Space, Beijing
             International Photography Exhibition 165, RPS Gallery, Bristol, UK
             Global Sino Award Exhibition, Christie’s, London, UK
             Fresh Eyes Talents, Haute Photographie Rotterdam 2024, NL

2023   PATH— Ways to Illustrative Photography, DongLai Art, Chengdu, CN
             TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, CN
             Collective show at Phmuseum Days 2023 Photo Festival, Bologna, IT
             The Paintbrush of Nature, Aperture Gallery, London, UK

2022   Current Obsessions, Well Gallery, London, UK
             Variation, Work-In-Progress Show, Safehouse, London, UK

2019    Imageless Dummy Photobook Awards Exhibition, Modern Art Academy, Shanghai, CN

Awards and Nominations:

2024    GETXOPHOTO 2025, Shortlist, ES
              Honorable Mention, Lucie Foundation, US
              KunPeng Award, Pingyao International Photo Festival, CN
              Encontros da Imagem Discovery Award, Finalist, PT
              Copenhagen Photo Festival solo artist selectee, DK
              Winner of Constructed Photography Series, Global SinoPhoto Awards, UK

2023    IPE Award, Royal Photographic Society, UK
             Grand Prix Images Vevey, Finalist, CH
             Open Door Prize, Longlist, UK

2022   The Fourth 1839 Photography Nomination Award, CN

Collection:

2023  Zhejiang Art Museum

2022  UAL Collection

Press:

2024, IPE 165 feature, RPS Journal, Jan-Mar 2024

2024, TOP20 feature, Chinese Photography, Journal, Jan 2024

2023, The Oriental Scene, Chinese Photography, Journal, Oct 2023

2023, The Paper, https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23539998

2023, British Journal of Photography,
 https://www.1854.photography/2023/02/scratching-the-surface-of-the-wests-chinese-pagodas/

2023, Conceptual Project, https://conceptualprojects.com/Yuxing-Chen

2020, Sixth Tone, https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006374


Based in London and Shanghai

For enquiries and commissions:

Email: chenyuxingcyx@gmail.com
Instagram: yuxingchen_