WENDI YAN

b. 1999, Beijing. Lives and works in New York, United States.

 

Artist and historian of science who constructs speculative epistemologies through research-driven worldbuilding, CGI, game engines, and material experimentation. Working at the frontier of scientific research, Daoist philosophy, and speculative media, Yan investigates images and imaginations of knowledge and probes their artifice. Her work examines the boundaries of the scientific self and imagines alternative histories across the psychogeographies of East and West.

 

Yan is the Grand Prix Recipient of the 6th VH AWARD (2025) by Hyundai Motor Group and an inaugural Steve Jobs Archive Fellow (2023 to 2024). She holds an M.S. in Fiction and Entertainment from SCI-Arc and an A.B. in History of Science from Princeton University.

 

Yan’s work has been shown globally at institutions and festivals including Ars Electronica, the ArtScience Museum Singapore, House of Electronic Arts, Turku Art Museum, MU Hybrid House, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, arebyte Digital Art Centre, Kai Tak Art Week, and the 8th International Intermedia Art Festival.

 

She has undertaken residencies with CERN Collide Stockholm (Honorary Mention), A24 Labs, NEW INC at the New Museum, Eyebeam, and The Arctic Circle Expedition. Her work has been featured in Monopol, Numéro China, Art & Market, Le Random, Art & Business China, and Coeval Magazine.