Yiming Zhu (b.1999) is a Chinese artist who works and lives in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in Photography. Her artistic practice is based on photography, integrated with installation and moving images. Her artwork stems from reality, focusing on relationships between people’s mentalities and behaviours. Her artwork emphases on how to visualise life experiences and metaphors. Through fiction and imagination, she illustrates lost memories, unspeakable subconsciousness and enigmatic cultural metaphors, to invite the audiences to immerse in her visual narratives. Recently, she travels between the UK and China, researching the folklore contents in certain cultural backgrounds, unveiling mists covering the symbols of folklore essences.
Exhibitions
10/2024 WideOpen, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Ohio, USA
09/2024 Outland Publishing Fair, London, UK
09/2024 Photometria Festival, Ioannina, Greece
1 1/2023 Rotlicht Festival, Atelierhaus of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
09/2023 Tale of Chain, Greatorex Street, London
09/2023 PhMuseum Days 2023 Photo Festival, Collective Exhibition, Bologna, Italy
08/2023 Through the Looking Glass, Mall Galleries, London,UK
07/2023 Postgraduate Degree show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
05/2023 Off-Print, Tate Morden, London, UK
03/2023 BACKSTROKE, Batsford Gallery，London, UK
03/2023 Graduates Art Fair大艺博，Wuhan, China
07/2022 SENSE X ART FESTIVAL 感官X艺术节，Hangzhou，China
03/2022 YES！Art Festival 野生青年艺术节，Hangzhou，China
01/2022 GIRLS ARE GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION，永庆坊，Guangzhou，China
12/2021 A Myriad of Rooms无尽的房间, Group Exhibition，Shanghai，China
1 1/2021 JIMEI ARLES INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL-Photobook集美·阿尔勒摄影书展，Xiamen，China
10/2021 A Myriad of Rooms无尽的房间, Group Exhibition, Chengdu, China
08/2021 Imageless Dummy Photobook Awards, Shanghai, China
06/2021 Spectacle of Remnants, Online exhibition, China
06/2021 Unbounded Group Exhibition无界艺术展,Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
01/2021 BANSHAN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Honors and Awards
09/2024 IPA 2024, Honorable Mention, USA
09/2024 Booooooom Art & Photo Award, Shortlist, Canada
04/2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Shortlisted, UK
02/2024 GUP FRESH EYES talent, GUP Magazine, Netherland
11/2023 Rotlicht Festival, Winner, Atelierhaus of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
07/2023 Metro Imaging Award, Winner, RCA Photography and Metro Imaging, London,UK
03/2023 Felix Schoeller Photo Award，Emerging Photographer，Shortlist，Deutschland
1 1/2021 2021 PHOTO MOMENTS BIG AWARDS, Winner, China
03/2021 Miroir Project First Female Photographer Competition, Finalist, China
Group Publications
09/2024 Hey Now Issue 1 (Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery)
02/2024 GUP FRESH EYES 2024 (GUP Magazine)
08/2023 Source Magazine online show
1 1/2021 JIMEI ARLES INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL
Curatorial
12/2021 Glimmer in The Haze在薄雾中闪烁, Group Exhibition, Foshan, China
10/2021 Multi-individual Portrait Photography人从众摄影展, Group Exhibition, Guangzhou, China
06/2020 Doing-Knowing Photography Exhibition行知摄影展, Group Exhibitiion, Nanjing, China