About

Yu Yin (尹余, she/they) is a research-based artist from Shenzhen, currently based in Rotterdam. After several years working in editorial, curatorial and public-education roles in the art scene of Shenzhen, Southern China, she moved to the Netherlands to study Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute. Developing multi-media practices of installation, publishing and moving image, she works with the overlooked objects and systems of everyday life to examine how time, body and labour are shaped under technology and infrastructure.

Education

  • 2024–2026MA Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing (XPUB), Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (summa cum laude)
  • 2015–2019BA Advertising, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai

Exhibitions

  • 2026Time, in a volkstuin, with Mira Ying & Xiao Yu, NoR Festival 2026: Below (Between (Upon (Within))), Tuinderslust, Overschie, Rotterdam
  • 2026The Chanting Machine, Turning off and on again, agnes circulaire maakplek, Rotterdam
  • 2025The Observer Clock, Special Issue 27: See You Many Times, Houweling Telecom Museum, Rotterdam
  • 2025Face Notation, Special Issue 26: Declarations, Varia, Rotterdam
  • 2024Guideline into the Shadow Mindscape (sound / radio), Radia Worm / Behind VA Shadows, Canada
  • 2024Beyond Systems 以退为进, 2nd Shanghai Art Workers Biennale, Arbre Art Centre, Shenzhen (with brain committee)

Curatorial & Editorial

  • 2026Extra-Terrestrial Experimental Publishing Zine Fair, Dokhuis, Rotterdam (Curator)
  • 2022–2024Brain committee 艺术劳动, artist collective with Ji Haoru
  • 2022–2023Between Warp and Weft: the Longhua Sub-Exhibition《经纬之间》, exhibition, the 9th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB 2022) (partial curatorial + editing), Shangqi Art, Shenzhen
  • 2021–2022Uncharted Territory: For a Change《未知地带:思变》, exhibition, catalogue, 4th Shenzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art (partial curatorial + editing), Shangqi Art, Shenzhen
  • 2022In Translation – The Contexts of Nature《平移——自然的语境》, catalogue (content editing), Shangqi Art, Shenzhen
  • 2021Logic of Sensation 感觉的逻辑, catalogue (content editing), Shangqi Art, Shenzhen

Publications

  • 2026The Chanting Machine, artist's books (3 vols)
  • 2025The Observer Clock, artist's book
  • 2025Drifting Down to the Nearby / Near·By vol.02 (with Nianzu Su), XPUB, Piet Zwart Institute

Experience

  • 2020–2023Communications & editorial, branding, research — Shangqi Culture & Art 上启文化艺术, Shenzhen
  • 2019–2020Editorial, & public programme, Blossom Haus, Shenzhen

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