Art can be another world parallel to the reality. In Sun Yao’s painting world, the heavens collapse, stars explode, and visual energy...

“In the midst of the river, waves surge to the sky; on the frontier, wind and clouds merge with the earth's shadow.” (Autumn Meditations,...

Out of the contemporary Chinese artists born in the 1970s, Sun Yao (孫堯, b.1974) is one who has the potential to elevate Chinese abstract...

In a story told by my PhD tutor, Piet Mondrian who, as the threat of war increased, had decided to flee by train to London was collected...

Sun Yao’s art probes the incommensurable, whether it be the infinitesimally small or the cosmic infinity. The artist’s coherent process,...

“I might want everything: the infinite spiral of darkness with each fall, and the trembling brilliance with each ascending step.” (Rainer...

“I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map...

Sun Yao: Self-Consistent is a series of paintings exhibited as an architectural, environmental installation that, among other things,...

Topographies of The Self is a solo exhibition of the painter Sun Yao, whose title alludes to the symbiosis between landscape and...