Sun Yitian (b.1991, Zhejiang, China) graduated from the Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) in 2015 and earned her Master Degree in 2018. She is now completing her doctorate of Literature at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Her practice, which spans painting, installation, performance, and fashion, employs material objects as metaphors of labor and production to reveal the inner mechanisms of our consumer society. Sun's often photo-realist works examines the secret, increasingly tenuous connection between seduction and fear as well as the sculptural ‘thingness’ of her subjects.
Sun was selected for the Influential 2023: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2019, and received the K11 Artist Prize nomination, the WSJ China’s ON THE FIELD Creator of the Year Award and “BOB Best of the Best” 2022 Young Artist Award. Her works have been exhibited at BANK Gallery, Esther Schipper, Mine Projects, Almine Rech, Paris and major organizations such as the Lion Palace, Berlin; Samaritaine, Paris; Macao Museum of Art; UCCA Edge, Shanghai, as well as Frieze London and FIAC. Her work is held in the following collections: Hort Family Collection, New York; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art"Los Angeles; By Art Matters, Hangzhou; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; Pond Society, Shanghai; M WOODS, Beijing; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing and Long Museum, Shanghai, etc.
Recent exhibitions include A Cloud in Trousers: Painting Today, West Bund Museum, Shanghai(2024), One and All: New Artistic Styles of Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing(2024); Boundless Reverie: Chinese Savoir!Faire and Contemporary Art, K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong(2024);Once Upon a Time, Esther Schipper,
Paris(2023); Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2023); Projection, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (2023); Nián Nián :The Power and Agency of Animal Forms, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing (2023); The Infinite Conversation: 2022 Beijing Biennial “Symbiosis”, National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing (2022); Summer ‘22, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2022); The Pieces I Am, Shanghai, UCCA Edge (2022); Art’s Language, Artists’ Game, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen (2022); The Disconnected Generation, Song Art Museum, Beijing (2022).