QI-YAO

七 幺

ABOUT

Qi-Yao is an artist-researcher based in Loughborough, UK.

Through performative practice, she critically explores the entanglements between the body, social structures, and systems of control across performance, sound, video, and installation. Her engagement with embodied experience and individual agency results in acute attention to both the conceptual and the material, the provocative as well as the uncanny, positioning the body as a site of interference capable of unsettling normative logics within contemporary societies.


CONTACT

Q.Chen4@lboro.ac.uk
CV 



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Education
PhD in Creative Arts (in progress)，
Loughborough University, 
2025-present

MFA in Experimental Art,
Central Academy of Fine Arts,
2020-2023

BFA in Sculpture,
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, 
2014-2019


ExhibitionsB-side: Hidden Track,
BIE Box,
Beijing,
2025

Charging Guide，
Ming Contemporary Art Museum,
Shanghai,
2025

Valhalla Unconstrained，
Mix Art Lab, 
Beijing,
2024

Citywalk Together，
Entrance Space,
Zhengzhou,
2024

The Stone of Her Mountain, Guardian Art Centre, 
Beijing,
2023

Great Compassion Cosmos,
Beginning Gallery, 
Guizhou,
2023

Blue Dream,
Nordic Contemporary Art Centre,
Xiamen,
2023

Groups as Methods,
Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, 
Beijing,
2023

Youth Today,
798 Art Centre, 
Beijing,
2023

Material Girl,
China Culture Centre, 
Sydney,
2022

Accessible Art Program,
Cre8ive Academy of Fine Art, 
Beijing,
2022

Art Nova 100 Annual Exhibition,
Guardian Art Center, 
Beijing,
2021

Hereditary Territory,
Powerlong Museum, 
Shanghai,
2021

Without MOI in Future,
Nine Art Museum, 
Beijing,
2021

Fried Tomatoes & Tomatoes,
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, 
Wuhan,
2021

Boredom is the beginning of every authentic act,
SIMULACRA, 
Beijing,
2021

Zeng Zhushao Sculpture Exhibition,
China Sculpture Museum, 
Datong,
2019

Golden Age III,
Star Art Space, 
Wuhan,
2019

Resonance for 99 Years,
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, 
Wuhan,
2019

The Train Art Festival,
Triangle Road of Jiulongpo Railway, 
Chongqing,
2018

The 3rd Hubei Youth Sculpture Biennale,
Wanlin Art Museum, 
Wuhan,
2017

Considerable Elites,
Chinese Art Palace, 
Shanghai,
2017

Memorial for a Boat,
Pier 1 at Redsteel City, 
Wuhan,
2017

The Dream of Cyan,
Chinese Sculpture Research Institute, 
Qingdao,
2016




Honors &
AwardsChina Scholarship Council X Loughborough University Joint Scholarship, 
2025

Nominee,
Art Nova 100,
2021

First Prize Scholarship, 
Central Academy of Fine Arts,
2021

Second Prize Scholarship, 
Central Academy of Fine Arts,
2020

Nominee, 
Zeng Zhushao Sculpture Fellowship Award, 
2019

Nominee,
10th New Star Art Awards, 
2019

Second Prize, 
Fine Sculpture Fellowship, 
2018

Second Prize Scholarship, 
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts,
2018

Nominee, 
The 3rd Hubei Youth Sculpture Biennale, 
2017

National Encouragement Scholarship,
Ministry of Education of P.R. China,
2017

First Prize Scholarship, 
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts,
2017



Collections
Central Academy of Fine arts Art Museum, Beijing, CN
2023

Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, 
Wuhan, CN
2019

Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, 
Wuhan, CN
2015
                


Residencies
Nordic Contemporary Art Center,
Xiamen, China
2023

Twins Museum,
2022

Hyper Hospital,
Vis Art Center, 
Beijing, China
2021





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