Yijun Yang
Interdisciplinary artist
New Jersey, USA
Art is one way a life becomes legible. Through form, it holds what experience alone cannot fully say.
About the Artist
Yijun Yang is an interdisciplinary artist working across installation, film, and theater, based in New York City. Her work explores the fragility of memory and cultural identity throughout storytelling. She holds an MFA in Scenic Design from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama and is the recipient of the George Kimberly Award for Set Design. Her work has been presented at A.R.T. New York, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the SIFF Film Festival, among other venues.
Artist Statement:
Yijun Yang is an interdisciplinary artist working across installation, theater, and film. Her practice investigates how emotion and memory leave traces in space. Through constructed scenes built from everyday objects manipulated at unexpected scales, she examines the fragility of memory and cultural identity. The work moves between domesticity and visual fiction, presenting images of raw, tangible stillness that hold feeling beyond narrative or explanation.
