YIQING CHEN

About Artist

Yiqing Chen is an artist and digital director currently based in London. His practice spans documentary, CG-animated film and game/XR environments. Floating between fictioning and documentary, his work explores transnational contexts shaped by infrastructure and virtual technologies, and focuses on the interwoven media histories, geological memories and individual life narratives behind technological networks.

Yiqing's work has been exhibited and screened at TATE Britain, ICA London, Cromwell Place Gallery (London), Conditions (London), Wetdovetail Gallery (Middlesbrough), MEET Digital Culture Centre (Milan), HIAP (Finland), ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture (Barcelona) and more. In 2024, he's "Gaming as Method of Sound Production" won the Artathon Gdańsk by LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art (Poland), as part of Augmented Europe 2nd funded the European Commission (EACEA). 

Yiqing earned his MA in Digital Direction from the Royal College of Art in London (2021), and his BEng in Internet of Things Engineering (2018).