Fang Yuan, born in 1996 in Shenzhen, grew up during an era of rapid urbanization. In her youth, she studied in New York, specializing in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts, and graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts, receiving the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her practice exists within the context of global contemporary art, responding to the historical tradition of abstract painting while expressing a distinct female perspective and cultural identity among her generation. Fang Yuan’s work explores the relationships between color, form, and space, weaving psychological experience and emotional energy into abstract language, producing work that is both highly personal and impactful.Her creative approach stems from a self-distancing from the external environment. In the developing and changing environment, she continuously felt the anxiety and unease projected by her surroundings. For her, change is a tangible, physical experience. Her painting practice crystallizes an exploration of the concept of “eternity”—capturing illusions suspended between the infinite and the mundane. In her process, she allows multiple layers of space to interweave, constructing impossible, parallel spatial arrangements, observing how vague forms in three-dimensional space manifest on the flat plane, and exploring the interactions among invisible yet perceptibly coexisting relationships. Rather than depicting images, she compresses attitudes and experiences into the canvas, rejecting visual harmony and seeking resonance through collision. To her, painting is both the material of emotion and a map where estrangement and belonging intertwine within the body. Her work reminds us that abstraction is not avoidance but the most direct and authentic mode of perception.

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