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Luka Yuanyuan Yang

Luka Yuanyuan Yang

Luka Yuanyuan Yang (b. 1989, Beijing) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in London and Beijing, working across documentary film, video, photography, installation and performance. Weaving documentary and archival materials, her practice explores identity, migration and memory, often challenging conventional historical narratives and bringing overlooked voices to the foreground.

She has held solo exhibitions at High Line Art, New York (2025), Flowers Gallery, Hong Kong (2024), ARTiX3, Tokyo (2023) and OCAT Shanghai (2020), with her work also presented at institutions including Rockbund Art Museum, Power Station of Art, New Taipei City Art Museum, Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Times Art Center Berlin and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.

Her debut feature documentary Chinatown Cha-Cha premiered at Pingyao International Film Festival and Hawaii International Film Festival, receiving the New Filmmaker Award at the 14th China Documentary Academy Awards (2024), as well as Best Feature and Audience Choice Award at MINT Chinese Film Festival (2025). The film was released theatrically across China in 2024 and subsequently toured internationally in Europe and the United States. Her short films have also been featured in The New Yorker.

Yang is a recipient of the BAZAAR Art Awards – Cross-Cultural Creator of the Year (2024), the BVLGARI Avrora Award (2023) and the ART POWER 100 Award (2019). Her work is held in the collections of Power Station of Art, Kadist Art Foundation and FENIX Museum of Migration.

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