Charlotte Yao

Talks & Conferences

2026

Panelist, ‘Through a Feminist Lens: Counter-narratives of the Unspeakable Chinese Diasporic Experience’, B/ordering the Global: Transnational Feminist Critiques from Asia, Ewha Womans University, Korea

Presenter, ‘Let’s Go to America: Autotheory, Multimedia Practice, and the Chinese Diaspora’, Flow and Friction: Media Practices Across Global Asias Graduate Symposium, University of California, Santa Cruz

Panelist, ‘Fiction/Retrieval: How Do We Reconstruct Reality’, Outland Publishing Fair, London

Presenter, ‘From Patrilineal Script to Counter-Narrative: Feminist Autotheory of Chinese Diaspora in “Let’s Go to America”’, Gender: Now!, The Pennsylvania State University, State College (USA)

2024

Key speaker, We Radicles? | A Long Table Performative Conversation, Chelsea College of Arts, London

Conference paper, ‘Fleeing with the Hijacked Vehicle: Feminist strategies against fear and censorship’, Precarious Art: How Do We Make Art in a World on Fire?, Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange 2024, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore

Presenter, ‘Speaking the Unspeakable: Chinese diasporic feminist narration in resistance to the patriarchal home/homeland’, The 2nd Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts Asia PhD Forum, Birmingham City University, Birmingham (UK)

Panelist, Antagonistic Superpositions: Identity, diaspora and belonging, Peckham 24, London

2023

Performative speaker, ‘Tail of the Real’, holt journal for artistic research issue one launch event, London

Artist talk, ‘I moved to 2756 on that street since 2016’, Modern Fuel, Kingston (Canada)

2022

Conference paper, ‘Fleeing with the Hijacked Vehicle: Feminist strategies against fear and censorship’, WAVING Conference, The 2nd Conference of the Department of Art Territories, Jan Matejko Fine Arts Academy, Krakow (Poland)

Performative speaker, ‘Tail of the Real’, In Ruined Time, Master of Research Symposium 2022, Royal College of Art, London

2021

Panelist, RCA2021: The Challenge of the Screen, Royal College of Art, London

Panelist, RCA2021: Beyond the Binary, Royal College of Art, London

2016

Panelist, Precarium — Right Until Revocation, Plaza Projects, Vancouver

Publications & Press

2023

Author, ‘Tail of the Real: A Visual Response to the Chained Woman in Xuzhou’, Issue 1: Methodologies, holt journal for artistic research, London

2022

Co-author, Garden of Sleepers, Royal College of Art, London

Co-author, The Correspondence of Care, Royal College of Art, London

2021

Image contributor, After the High Tide, Folium, London

2017

Image contributor, Issue 404, No. 7, Vancouver

2016

Image contributor, Woo Publication Magazine, No. 2, Winter 2016, Vancouver

Residency

2026
SDGs x Arts: Research Residence, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2025
Young Overseas Chinese Artists Residency, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (China)
2021
Accent Poetry Residency, Accent Society, Online

Awards & Mentions

2024

Techne AHRC Studentship Award (Shortlisted), London

Peckham 24’s Curatorial Open Call, Peckham 24, London

2022

London New Futures (Shortlisted), The Other Art Fair, London

Meta_Contra_Verse (Shortlisted), GESTE Paris, Paris

2021
New Photography Prize, Royal College of Art
2018
Selected Exhibition, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver