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Yanhua Feng
Yanhua Feng is a contemporary artist born in Tianjin, China, and currently based in California, USA, with studios in both Vancouver and Beijing. She graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Design (now part of Tsinghua Univeristy) in 1993.
Biography
Feng’s artistic journey moves fluidly between design and fine art. After receiving formal training in the early 1990s, she established her own design studio, contributing to high-profile cultural projects, including the official gift design for the 1997 Hong Kong handover and the China Women and Children Musuem. These early experiences rooted her practice in the shifting visual culture of a transforming China, laying the foundation for her later return to painting.
Following a move to Canada, Feng gradually reconnected with painting after more than a decade dedicated to family life. When her daughter began studying in the United States, Feng relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she fully resumed her artistic practice. Working across cultures, she has since developed a distinct visual language that merges abstraction with perceptual figuration.
Artistic Style
Feng’s paintings are known for their bold color, emotional intensity, and physical vitality. Working primarily on large-scale canvases, she builds dynamic compositions through layered, swirling gestures that blur the line between body and landscape, structure and chaos. Her form often resemble limbs, textile, or botanical fragments - hovering between recognition and abstraction.
High attuned to color and movement, she composes her works like visual symphonies, charged with tactile energy and emotional resonance. From a distinctly female perspective, she explores themes of memory, inner tension, and transformation, creating what she calls “visual riddles” that resist fixed interpretation.
While informed by the legacy of Western abstract expressionism, Feng’s practice resist categorization. Her paintings are shaped by an openness drawn from Eastern spatial traditions - suggesting fluidity, stillness, and receptivity. The result is a hybrid visual language grounded in lived experience and cross-cultural identity.