YUHAN
ZHAO

Biography

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赵予菡 Yuhan Zhao (b. 2004, Chengdu, China) is currently pursuing dual majors in Art History (Visual Arts) and Political Economy at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Zhao’s artistic practice spans painting, installation, and new media, focusing on the intersection of gender, identity and East Asian culture. Drawing from personal and collective experiences of womanhood, Zhao explores survival, visibility, and agency within shifting societal structures. By blending conceptual depth with tactile forms, her work often invites spectators to engage with vulnerability, shame, and the politics of seeing.

Zhao also creates large-scale public installations that integrate natural environments. Her artistic trajectory is shaped by multiple artist residency experiences, including the Aranya Theater Festival’s Migratory Birds 300, the Burning Man Project, and the Wild Land Art Festival. In 2025, she was selected as a fellow at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, a prestigious summer program hosted by Yale School of Art for emerging undergraduate artists.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in cities such as New York, New Jersey, and Nevada, USA; as well as Chengdu, Wenzhou, Fuzhou, and Shanghai, China. 

Zhao currently lives and works in New York, USA.