Artist Biography

Yin Mei (She/Her)(b. 2002, Xi’an, China) is a photo-based mixed-media artist whose practice uses photography with both digital and physical intervention and typography and print. She uses these techniques to explore and confront issues relating to queer Chinese trans bodies and specifically the trans-fem experience in context with Chinese diaspora and generational trauma. Through queerification, her work seeks to confront pre-existing stereotypes, imagery, and histories and bring them to the present to support rather than suppress. Her work is also an exploration on love in context with trauma in all its forms and degradations. She received her BFA at University of British Columbia in 2024 and is currently practicing as an emerging artist in the stolen and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, “Vancouver, BC”