Rui Yang

Rui Yang is a multidisciplinary artist and CG generalist based in New York. Born and raised in Kunming, China, he began his academic path in engineering before shifting toward creative practice, driven by a deep interest in expression, storytelling, and reflection on current events. As a full-time CG artist in the video production industry, Rui has contributed to Netflix show productions and high-profile commercial campaigns. In parallel, he has recently emerged as a distinct voice in the new media art scene. His work explores post-digital identity, cultural hybridity, contemporary events, and the reimagining of contemporary mythologies.

Artist statement:

Rui Yang is a Chinese-born, Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist. He works with animation, CGI, video, 3D printing, photography, installation, projection mapping and AI. Rui’s work explores how cultural memory is translated and reinvented through technology and digital media. Employing a critical yet playful sensibility, he pulls from inter-cultural experiences, memory, mythology, pop culture, and social commentary appropriating and twisting them with wit and intention, and repurposing them into something distinctly his own. Through the remixing of diverse media and cultural references, Rui seeks to recontextualize the familiar and open new pathways for meaning.