Born 1999 in Beijing, China. Lives and works in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Faye Yan is a performance and visual artist. She received her BA in Comparative Literature at UCLA and MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her practice draws on inscrutable urges and visceral sensations within the body, tracing uncanny connections between memory, heritage and metaphysical realities. A dancer and a painter, she works interdisciplinarily across live art, painting, durational practice and theatre.

Faye was an artist in residence at Finland’s Arteles Creative Center in 2025. Her solo and collaborative works have been performed and exhibited at theatres and galleries in London, Los Angeles, Beijing and Manchester. Her award-nominated one-woman show IS THERE WORK ON MARS? received wide acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe and Hollywood Fringe in 2024 and 2025.

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