Yi Ling Lai

Yi Ling Lai ( b.1997) lives and works in London and Taiwan. Drawing on both eastern and western traditions, Ling has developed her artistic practice of Chinese calligraphy, paintings and drawings. She combines these traditions to explore ideas, systems and experiences of languages and its limits. Her practice tests both the restrictions and possibilities of traditional Chinese calligraphy to explore themes of desire, ambivalence and obsession; subjects that are typically considered impossible to express in traditional Calligraphy.

BFA, Chinese Painting and Calligraphy art, National Taiwan University of art, Taiwan
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MFA, Fine Art, Kingston University, London, United Kingdom

(2022)
_Mural Paint, Public Art Programme, Marshall Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
_Not My Beautiful House open call, Group Exhibition, Kingston, United Kingdom
_Circles in circle, Group Exhibition, Open Ealing, United Kingdom

(2021)
_Arts Noelle, Oui Gallery, London, United Kingdom
_LONDON GRADS NOW 21, Group Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, United Kingdom
_10 ARTISTES, Group Exhibition, St Clar, France
​_KSA show 2021, Online Showcase, Kingston, London, United Kingdom
_Kingston MFA Fine Art Degree Show, London, United Kingdom
_Distanced Domestic, Group Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
_The Visitor, Online Degree Show, Kingston, United Kingdom
_Translation, solo exhibition, Swan studio, London, United Kingdom
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(2019)
_Heterogeneity, degree show, National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taiwan
_Rotary Club of Panchiao Art Prize ‘Extraordinary Artworks’, group show, Shi Xi gallery, Taiwan

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(2018)
_NTUA teachers and students’ joint exhibition, Group exhibition, Shi Xi gallery, Banqiao, Taiwan

_Some Flowers, Group exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan

_National Art Exhibition, group exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
_Dot, photography degree show, Ban...