SU Yang

SU Yang is a Chinese photographer and visual artist who is currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Yang spent his early childhood surrounded by nature in an isolated military factory community, he moved out to different cities with family since he was young. Back in the 90s during the modernization progress and economy growth of China, Yang growing up witnessing the change of the country.

After graduating from bachelor in Communication & Design in Shanghai, 2011, Yang became a fashion and commercial photographer working with magazines and fashion brands. After achieving a success in his commercial career, he found the urge to express his own voice as an artist through photography. He became a master student in photography at écal, Switzerland in 2019.

During the study and experience in Switzerland, Yang found back his strong connection with the nature from when he was little. In his recent works, some of them including digital experimentation, bodies of water becomes his main metaphoric elements to express his life experience and critical thinking on the topic of Anthropocene. His reflection on the material and the virtual, and the notion of materializing the virtual has been a key axis of his practice as an artist.

Exhibitions

2024

InCadaqués Photo festival 2024, Cadaqués, Spain

PhMuseum Days 2024, Bologna, Italy

2023

“Let The Whole Goddamn Thing Short-circuit”, Toxi Space, Zurich, Switzerland

“Birds, The Flowers, and Them “ Tom Greyhound, Paris, France

2022

“2040” ON X ECAL, Zurich, Switzerland

Photo Schweiz 2022, Zurich, Switzerland

2021

“Exquisite Corpse” Biennale dell’ immagine Chiasso, Switzerland