Charlotte Yao is a Chinese-Canadian artist, curator, and researcher based in London, currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at University of the Arts London. Working with moving image, photography, installation, and experimental writing, Yao uses autotheory to frame her practice through personal experience, examining Chinese diasporic life and feminist questions shaped by migration, family history, and the structures of patriarchy across homeland and diaspora.
Her current PhD project, Through a Feminist Lens: Counter-narratives of the Unspeakable Chinese Diasporic Experience, develops a diasporic feminist counter-narrative that centres intersectional identity and lived experience. Her work aims to create space for dialogue, support community, and challenge dominant cultural narratives through shared storytelling.
Yao’s work has been featured in Let’s Go to America at Canton-sardine (Vancouver), as well as at Modern Fuel (Kingston), Trinity Square Video (Toronto), Southwark Park Galleries (London), West Bund Art & Design (Shanghai), and A4 Art Museum (Chengdu). Her curatorial project Antagonistic Superpositions was awarded by PECKHAM 24 curatorial open call (2024). Her research thesis Tail of the Real was published in the holt journal of artistic research. She received the RCA New Photography Prize (2021).
姚多金是一位常驻伦敦的加拿大华裔艺术家、策展人及研究者，现于伦敦艺术大学攻读实践型博士。她以动态影像、摄影、装置与实验写作为主要媒介，以自理论（autotheory）的方法将个人经验作为创作框架，关注迁移、家族史，以及父权结构在故土与离散之间的延续与变形所带来的女性主义议题与华人离散生活经验。
她当前的博士项目《Through a Feminist Lens: Counter-narratives of the Unspeakable Chinese Diasporic Experience》以交叉性身份与切身经验为中心，发展一种离散女性主义反叙事。她的创作旨在为对话提供空间，支持社群，通过共同的叙事挑战主流文化叙述。
姚多金的作品曾在 Canton-sardine（温哥华）展览《Let’s Go to America》，并在 Modern Fuel（金斯顿）、Trinity Square Video（多伦多）、Southwark Park Galleries（伦敦）、West Bund Art & Design（上海）与 A4 Art Museum（成都）呈现。其策展项目《Antagonistic Superpositions》获 PECKHAM 24 Curatorial Open Call（2024）奖项；研究论文《Tail of the Real》发表于 holt journal of artistic research；她亦获得 RCA New Photography Prize（2021）。