Faye Yan (b.1999, Beijing) 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.

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

A painter and dancer, Yan traces how unfamiliar emotions and erased memories 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 and spiritual spheres.

Yan 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.