Yafang Shi

Artist Bio

Yafang Shi is a Chinese settler, feminist, journalist-turned-artist, and poet. Her work considers gender, race, class, censorship, body, identity, and environmental issues from a decolonial, intersectional, and transnational feminist perspective. Her practice includes a long-term documentary project on social movements for women’s rights and social justice starting in 2017, poetic and evocative creative works on lived experiences, inner emotions, and collective sociopolitical realities, and socially engaged, collaborative public installations. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Contact Photography Festival, art galleries and museums, universities, public libraries, community centers, and outdoor public spaces. Her solo exhibitions were hosted by the Women and Gender Studies Institute of University of Toronto and the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies of York University. Her work was shown at the #MeToo in China exhibition, and during the opening she gave a talk entitled “Body, Feminist Art, Censorship, and Activism.” She has been advocating for artists’ rights to freedom of expression and human rights.