Faye Yan is a Chinese painter and performance artist based in Manchester, UK. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has lived between Beijing, Los Angeles, Berlin and London.

Faye’s practice explores the unruliness of nature and femininity. Rooted in an ecofeminist imagination, her paintings often merge fragmented figures into visual motifs drawn from organic forms.

A painter and dancer, Faye traces how unfamiliar emotions can be physically described through embodied mark-making. Her process is intuitive and gestural, allowing fragments of memory to surface through layers. Inspired by imagery from poetry and prose, her work moves between figuration and abstraction, articulating states of intimacy and instability situated in natural spheres.

Faye has held artist residencies in Finland and Scotland, and her multidisciplinary work has been exhibited and performed in London, Los Angeles, Beijing, Edinburgh and Manchester.