Photographer's Profile

Yan Jin

United States

Yan Jin is an artist born in Shanghai, China. Currently based in New York, she earned her Master of Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, Photography, Video and Related Media department. Her works include photography, video, sculpture, and multi-media installations. She constantly alienates objects of our familiarity and recontextualizes found materials through distortion and dislocation; blurs the gaps between presence and absence, and brings disparate binaries in dialogue with one another. She explores the function of the image, its presence as a sign, as representation, as constructed consciousness, as well as its contradiction being the most convincing medium while the most ambiguous when torn from contexts. Her work has been widely exhibited and screened in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Solo and Two-Person shows include “Little Lies and Counterweights, Little Lies and Counterweights (2023, New York, US)”, “I Should Use A Language Not to be Betrayed (2023, Seoul, South Korea)” and “I Don't Want to Make Photographs Anymore (2023, Xiamen, China)”.