SIJIA YANG

Born 1994, Sichuan, China

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EDUCATION
2017 – 18    The School of Art + Design, Graduate Minor in Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
2016 – 18    Department of Landscape Architecture, Master in Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
2013 – 16    College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Jun – Aug 2014    Vancouver International Summer Program, Architecture Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
2012 – 2013    College of Natural Resources and Environment, Studied Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.

EXHIBITIONS
2023    UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair 2023, Shanghai, China.
2022    TANK Art Festival 2022, Shanghai, China.
2021    Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2021, Caoyang Community, Shanghai, China.
2021    “Rethinking the Context,” Art and Social Innovation Lab, Chengdu, China.
2019    Yijie Gallary, Chengdu, China.
2018    “KAM Fest,” Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, USA.
2018    Anren OCT, Chengdu, China.

RESEARCH-LED PROJECTS
2020–2023    “Atransience,” offering a space for reflection and contemplation amidst the global pandemic. www.atransience.cargo.site.
2020–2021    Cai Guo-Qiang Studio, New York, USA, contributed to several research and projects, notably for the "Encounter with the Unknown: Cosmos Project for Mexico." www.caiguoqiang.com/projects/projects-2019/cosmos-mexico
2021    Artist Residency, Art and Social Innovation Lab, Chengdu, China.
2018    School of Architecture, Research & Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, assisted in the “Placemaking and Peacekeeping in Post Conflict Colombia” project, aiding in data visualization and design interventions. www.publish.illinois.edu/iliad-lab/research/placemaking-and-peacekeeping-in-post-conflict-colombia.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020    “Work-in-Book: The Shape of OCAT’s Publication,” abC Art Book Fair, Shanghai, China.
2019    “On the Nature of Landscape,” Ragesh A S Solo Exhibition, Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China.

EDITORIAL PROJECTS
2023    W. J. T. Mitchell. Metapictures: Images and the Discourse of Theory. Exhibition Catalogue.
2022    Jaś Elsner. Eurocentric and Beyond: Art History, the Global Turn and the Possibilities of Comparativism. 2017 OCAT Annual Lecture Series
2021    He Yining, ed. The Abode of Anamnesis. Exhibition Catalogue.
2021    W. J. T. Mitchell. Metapictures and Its Discourse. 2018 OCAT Annual Lecture Series.
2020    Georges Didi-Huberman. Image, Histoire, Poème. Trois conférences sur l'art visuel de S. M. Eisenstein. Beijing: Horizon Books.
2020    Wu Hung & Guo Weiqi, eds. World 3. Research on Chinese Art History: A Western Perspective. Beijing: Horizon Books.
Forthcoming  Craig Clunas. The Echo Chamber: Transnational Chinese Painting, 1897–1935. 2019 OCAT Institute Annual Lecture Series.

DESIGN PROJECTS
2022-2023    Exhibition Design. The New Survivors, curated by Shuman Wang at Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing. Won the Jimei x Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image 2022.
2020   Exhibition Design. “Work-in-Book: The Shape of OCAT’s Publication,” abC Art Book Fair, Shanghai, China.

PRIZES and FELLOWSHIPS
2021    Art and Social Innovation Lab Residency, Chengdu, China.
2019    Emerging Curator, "On the Nature of Landscape", Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing.
2018    Pauline Tilton Kennedy Prize, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2015    Outstanding Student Award, South China Agricultural University.
2014&2013    Second and Third Prize Scholarships, South China Agricultural University.