Zhanchao Pan




About






                                   Artist Statement


 



Born in Nanjing, China in 2001. Zhanchao Pan is an artist working and living in London. She started studying at the University of the Arts London in 2019 and is currently studying MA Fine Arts at Chelsea College.

Zhanchao Pan (Yuyi)'s works start from self-exploration. Through spiritual thinking and theoretical research, she aims to find the complex intersection between the material world and the deep spiritual realm. The works try to connect with the audience through dynamic visual effects and diverse colors and textures. Her creations are deeply influenced by her personal experience, original family, personality and Buddhism. She insists on capturing the diversity in life and transforming it into delicate emotional language. Her attention to self and life enables her to clarify that her creative direction must be related to life and self. Her artistic creation is a combination of her experience, life path and life traces, and the existence of individual differences.

Yuyi's works use skills from many different fields. Whether it is emerging or ancient techniques, she is willing to try, and use rich materials and use them in abstract or interesting ways in her works. She mainly combines installation art, and also involves the art forms of video, photography and performance, so that her art works cut into the cognition of personal identity, emotional relationships, relationships and social topics from a unique perspective. Trying to combine these tangible or intangible feelings and thoughts in the mind in the form of art, trigger deep exploration and thinking, and convey the themes of sensory balance, harmony and inner sensitivity.

Currently, the core of Yuyi's artistic pursuit revolves around issues related to twin identity, psychology, philosophy and Buddhism. She is committed to gaining inspiration from the inconspicuous things around her, establishing her own personal artistic language and style, trying to express herself in abstract forms through art as a medium, and calling on people to discover the contradictions and beauty in daily life.

                             
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Exhibition


           

2024
                                                      
“Nomination Exhibition of Young Contemporary Artists” Group Exhibition, Shenzhen, China 
                                         
“Floating Dream” Group Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
           


           

Select Awards & Honors




2024
                                                       
Emerging Woman Artist 2024, Selected
                                          
Nomination Exhibition of Young Contemporary Artists, Emerging Artist Award                                          
Nomination Exhibition of Young Contemporary Artists, Third Prize

         

         
Publication


           
2025
                                                       
DELTA, Selected ISSN 1003-9643                                       




           

Education



           
2019-2020                                                 

The University of the Arts London, Camberwell College 
                                          
Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Arts and Design



2021-2024
                                                 
The University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of Arts
                                          
Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours