Artist Statement

My work explores the fragile threshold between the material and the immaterial, drawing on themes of impermanence, spirituality, and the unseen. Rooted in an early awareness of life's fragility and the richness of ritual, I became fascinated by how humans create narratives that transcend the physical world. For me, art is a spiritual journey — an act of tracing the invisible threads that connect us across time, space, and emotion.

My practice moves across installation, sculpture, and works on paper, each form offering a different way of making the invisible tangible. In installation and sculpture, I engage ritual and spatial presence directly — inviting the body into contact with meaning. Contemplation invites viewers to turn a pair of pillars resembling Buddhist prayer wheels, reflecting both Eastern and Western religious symbolism. Seasons, a site-specific installation at Safehouse in London, transforms an empty room into an interactive environment of sound, object, and atmosphere, encouraging visitors to reflect on presence, ephemerality, and transition.

In mixed media works on paper, the same inquiry becomes intimate and accumulative. Using watercolour, botanical imagery, and symbolic fragments, I create pieces that are dreamlike and layered — unfolding slowly through marks and materials that embrace fluidity, imperfection, and change, mirroring the impermanent nature of memory and perception. Through my work, I invite viewers to pause and reflect on the sacredness of everyday life, to sense the quiet, unseen energies that shape our inner worlds.

Biography

Tina Yang is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the porous boundaries between the material and immaterial, drawing on ritual, memory, and transformation. Born in Taiwan and shaped by life in Helsinki, Singapore, London, and San Francisco, she studied at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, where she received a Fine Art Post-Baccalaureate degree.

Her practice moves across installation, sculpture, and works on paper, united by a sustained inquiry into impermanence and the unseen. Site-specific installations — including works shown at Safehouse and Cookhouse Gallery in London and the California College of the Arts — engage spatial presence, ritual, and the body. Mixed media works on paper layer botanical imagery, symbolic fragments, and mark-making in a process that embraces fluidity and incompleteness. Alongside her studio practice, Tina maintains an active research practice drawing on Buddhist philosophy, spiritual traditions, and divinatory systems.

Her work invites quiet reflection and emotional presence — an encounter with the invisible energies that shape inner life.

Exhibitions

The 39th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville CA USA, 2025

Project Mini Art, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont CA USA, 2025

The Soundtrack Show, Tamper Room, Fremont CA USA, 2024

The 38th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville CA USA, 2024

Holiday Pop-Up, Berkeley Art Studio, Berkeley CA USA, 2019-2020

Explorations, California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA USA, 2016

Chelsea Summer Show, Punctum Gallery, London UK, 2016

Offsite, Safehouse, London UK, 2016

Interim, Cookhouse Gallery, London UK, 2015