CV
GAO YIYANG

Born 2004 in Shanxi, China. Lives in Guangdong now.



EDUCATION

Xiamen University & University for the Creative Arts (UK) | Xiamen, China | Sep 2022 – Jun 2026 (Expected)

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Media Art



EXHIBITION
 
2026, DRIRTING, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China

2025, Love Is Her Oyster Pearl: G Art Museum, Fuzhou, China
2025, “Xiamen Oyster”, Xiamen Symposium on Marine 

2024, “What Is in the Park_Screen”, ICl Open Museum,Xiamen University, Zhangzhou, China
2024, “Another ‘Hole’ World”, Museum of Modern Shopping , Xiamen, China
2024, “Live Only”, OPEN PARK Emerging Curatortrial Program, ICl Open Museum, Zhangzhou, China
2024, “Off-the-clock Activity”Self-organized Exhibition,Jinsha Public Beach, Zhangzhou,China

2023, “Stories from Elsewhere”, Herbert Read Gallery, UK
2023, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany
2023, Cinematheque Plate_A Certain Feeling for the Universe,Small File Media Festival 2023, Vancouver, Canada




RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Archival Intervention : Neolithic Artifact Research, Private Grade II Museum in Guangzhou ---2024

Conducted cataloging and archival research of Neolithic artifacts, focusing on the materiality of prehistoric objects and their contemporary re-contextualization. Challenged traditional archival logic through speculative indexing, treating prehistoric vestiges not as historical artifacts. 

Cultural Heritage Public Project, Yerevan, Armenia ---2025

Engaged in a cultural heritage initiative within a youth cultural community, exploring the intersection of post-Soviet memory and public space in Yerevan. 

Sensory Ethnography of Yuegang Town (1620-1900) --- 2023

Collaborative research with the Department of Anthropology, Xiamen University. Reconstructed the invisible “sensory landscape” of the historical port through a non-linear analysis of maritime archives and piratical folklore.
Deciphered how early Christianity and trade networks functioned as sensory technologies, altering the auditory and visual perception of the coastal environment. 

A Socio-Cultural Study of Human–Marine Species Contact | Xiamen University --- 2023/2024

Collaborated with the School of Life Sciences and the College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, to conduct interdisciplinary bio-sampling and sensory analysis of marine specimens. Analyzed the oyster as a “biological sensor” and calcium- based mediator, treating its shell as a living archive that encodes the metabolic friction between maritime social structures and marine ecology. 

Organized an interdisciplinary art collective to execute a series of site-specific performances in public coastal zones ---2025

Orchestrated an open-ended, ludic framework (game-based exploration) deconstructing the rigid “programs” of urbanized coastal space. Facilitated “Luckey Quarter” sessions, utilizing non-linear narratives and sensory triggers to evoke the latent memories of the site and its transient human/non-human inhabitants. 

Teaching Assistant at Xiamen University ---2023/2024

Assisted in the “Portrait” course as peer teacher, providing conceptual guidance and technical support to lower-year students. facilitated academic discussions and material preparation. 

Curatorial Project (OPEN PARK Emerging Curatorial Program) Co-curator --- 2024

Collaborated under the OPEN PARK program to curate the exhibition “live only,” overseeing spatial layout, artist coordination, and the production of curatorial texts.