Charlotte Yao
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Education

2023 —
PhD Fine Art, University of the Arts London
2021 — 22
MRes Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art
Aug 2021
Rosi Braidotti’s Summer School ‘The Posthuman & New Materialism’, Utrecht University
2019 — 21
MA Photography, Royal College of Art
2013 — 18
BFA Photography, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
2013 — 16
BA Philosophy, University of British Columbia

Solo Exhibition

2025
‘Let’s Go to America’, Canton-sardine, Vancouver
2023
‘I moved to 2756 on that street since 2016’, Modern Fuel Artist Run Center, Kingston (Canada)
2021
Look at Me, Tofu Collective, Online
2018
‘I moved to 2756 on that street since 2016’, R Space, Vancouver

Selected Group Exhibition

2026

Flattening Earth, Outland Publishing Fair, Copeland Gallery, London

Where the Sea Reaches — The 7th Global Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition, Suzhou Art Museum, China

Memory Catcher, Safehouse 1, London

2025
Viddy Horrorshow / Daytime Viewing (VHS/DTV), TACO!, London
2024
We Radicles?, Triangle Space, London
2023

Through the Riptide as a Canoe — The 6th Global Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (China)

The Curator’s Sauna, Canton-sardine, Vancouver

2022

Being & Becoming, Trinity Square Video, Toronto

Unruly Encounters, Southwark Park Galleries, London

The 4th Academic Experimental Art Documentary Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Gallery, Jingdezhen (China)

2021

Art and Design Education: Future Lab 2021, West Bund Art & Design Fair, Shanghai

After the High Tide, Cromwell Place, London

2020

The Intermission, ISSUING Gallery, Shenzhen

Not No Land for Questioners, A4 ARIE Art Center, Chengdu (China)

Why are Urban 90s Afraid of Marriage?, 2 x Guan Contemporary Art Space, Luoyang (China)

Curating Practice

2026
Memory Catcher (Workshop Series), University of the Arts London, High Holborn, London
2024

We Radicles?, Triangle Space, London

Antagonistic Superpositions, Peckham 24, London

2023
(Homing, Or) Adverse Possession, Keepsake Project, London
2022
Found and Lost, Back Room Gallery, London
2020

The Midas Touch, No Space, Online

Be Water, My Friend, Grapevine Residency, Online

Counter Point, RCA Courtyard Gallery, London

2019
I Swing, Yijie Gallery, Chengdu (China)
2016
Precarium — Right Until Revocation, Plaza Projects, Richmond (Canada)

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