YANYUN CHEN

Risk: Last Laugh 2023
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm

Risk: Ever Sight 2022
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm

Risk: Rage 2021
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm

Risk: Disappearance 2020
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm

Seen, Screen, Scatter 2021
STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks

Silence, healing 2021
Mulberry charcoal and bark on
STPI handmade paper with watermarks

Whisper, mulberry dream 2021
Mulberry charcoal on
STPI handmade paper with watermark

The Necessity for Departures 2024
Hardground etching, spit bite aquatint, offset lithography and chalk on STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks

A changing stream 2024
Mulberry charcoal and bark on
STPI handmade paper with watermarks

Paper spine 2021
STPI handmade paper with watermark

a gentle caress 2021
Charcoal on paper, aquatint and burnishing

Life is Elsewhere 25 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper

Life is Elsewhere 24 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper

All the flowers I didn't pick, all the lives I didn't live 2023
Charcoal on aluminum framed with acrylic, 180 x 120 cm

Komorebi Coral 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm

Plumed Serpent 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm

Possession 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm

Terrestrial 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm

Fragility 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 34cm x 34cm

Soft Spaces 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 25cm x 34cm

Flux 2025
Charcoal on paper
40cm by 56cm

Un-named 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 54cm x 36cm

Un-Titled 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 54cm x 36cm

The Thought Visits You 2020
Photographed by Tom White
100% Habotai Silk edition of 5, 180cm x 20cm

The Thought Visits You 2020
100% Habotai Silk edition of 5, 180cm x 20cm

Scar Writings 2024
62 mild steel slip weldings, red wire, wood table
120cm by 40cm by 100cm

Scar Writings (detail) 2024
62 mild steel slip weldings, red wire, wood table
120cm by 40cm by 100cm

Scars: I felt very self conscious, inferior.
I hid it like an ostrich, if no one see, no one asks.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm

Scars: They were the size of raisins
After surgery, they looked like globe grapes
The seeded kind.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm

Scars: I used to cover it with a plaster
when I wore short sleeves.
I didn’t want people to ask me what it was.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm

Scars: 没浮起来，自然的清掉了。
只留下一条红线。
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm

Scars: 我打了七只针。
痒的话，就用冰。
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm

Scars: I tried to slam my head into a pillow,
missed, landed on the table instead.
There was so much blood!
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm

Scars: All I remember was the whiteness
of a bone sticking out of my arm.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm

Scar: She once told me that, with that mark,
I’d be identifiable as a corpse.
2018 Mild Steel 30cm by 30cm

Scars: Gold #1
2018 Gold leaf on mild steel

Scars: Gold #2
2018 Gold leaf on mild steel

Scars: Legs
2018 Charcoal and chalk on mild steel

On our backs speak a history 2024
charcoal drawing on mild steel
180cm by 80cm

The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm

The scars that write us (full set) 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm

Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns (Detail) 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings

Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings

Girl - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Two standing lanterns, teak hand-made table, bridal gown, dowry basket, scissors, thread, red fabric, wedding dried fruits, red packets, gold cards, bridal lamps, red bulbs, teapot, tea cups, spoons ; Installation

Bride - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
16 calligraphy lanterns, red bulbs, three camphor chests, three charcoal and chalk drawings on wood, red laminate ; Installation

Wife - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Lantern, teak chairs, red ribbons ; Installation

Mother - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Charcoal and chalk on wood, teak frame, lanterns, clogs, red bulbs, drawing dimensions 180cm by 80cm ; Installation

Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings

Women in Rage Yanyun Chen and Sara Chong 2019
Single channel animation, 4K, 5 min

Mother - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry (Detail) 2019
Charcoal and chalk on wood, teak frame, lanterns, clogs, red bulbs ; Installation

Constructing Mementos : Nation States II
Yanyun Chen (with Alex Scollay) 2021
Frame: 100cm x 30cm
Screen: 30cm x 20cm
MP4, 1280x800 resolution
approximately 2.5 minutes loop

Constructing Mementos : Nation States I
Yanyun Chen (with Alex Scollay) 2021
Frame: 100cm x 30cm
Screen: 30cm x 20cm
MP4, 1280x800 resolution
approximately 2.5 minutes loop

This line is false no.1 2020
Charcoal on Paper mounted on aluminium
150cm by 60cm

This line is false no.2 2020
Charcoal on Paper mounted on aluminium
150cm by 60cm

Complex Dialogues 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 55.5cm x 32.5cm

The truth lies in fact 2020
Alex Scollay and Yanyun Chen
single channel animation, 4K, 5 min

I am lying, no.3 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm

I am lying, no.2 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm

I am lying, no.1 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm

Flower Flights 2018
limited 500 edition book

Variations and Variables I II III IV 2019
Charcoal print on Cotton Panama Fabric
140cm x 500cm

Veins, Grains and Striae 2024
127cm by 137cm
Charcoal on paper mounted on aluminium di-bond, tembusu wood, pyrography
Bank of Singapore collection

Of Human Bondage 2018
Charcoal and chalk on wood
130cm x 110cm

Skin Stories 2019
Charcoal, white chalk, gold leaf and primer on wood

Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 1 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm

Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 4 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm

Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 3 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm

Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 2 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm

Wingspan II 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 40cm x 110cm

Wingspan I 2018
Charcoal on linen, 40cm x 110cm

Skin Stories 2019
Charcoal, white chalk, gold leaf and primer on wood

Flower Flights II 2018
Charcoal on wood, 110cm x 40cm

Flower Flights I 2018
Charcoal on wood, 110cm x 40cm

Clouds II 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 30cm x 40cm

Clouds I 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 30cm x 40cm

Flower Pile 2017
charcoal on paper, 90cm by 90cm

春在心中四季盛开 2018
charcoal on paper
Words by Liang Wern Fook; 字梁文福
Calligraphy by Yong Gee Lin；写杨如莲

Rise and Fall 2017
Charcoal on paper, 100cm x 55cm

Poppy Wall 2017
Charcoal on paper, 100cm x 50cm

Tall Poppies 2016
Nitram Charcoal on Fabriano Roma paper, 45cm by 105cm

Wind 2016
charcoal on paper, 54.5cm by 21cm

Study of the last goodbye 2017
charcoal on paper, 19cm by 47cm

Defiance 2016
Charcoal on paper, 45cm by 45cm

Flowers I 2014
Charcoal on paper, 63cm by 63cm

Flowers II 2014
Charcoal on paper, 66cm by 82cm

Flowers III 2014
Charcoal on paper

Flowers IV 2014
Charcoal on paper, 51cm by 76cm

Dorian Gray 2015
charcoal on paper

Peony 2015
Charcoal on paper, 39cm by 65cm

Flowers VII 2015
Charcoal on paper, 66cm by 82cm

In bed with the King and Queen 2015
Charcoal on paper

Flowers VIII 2016
Charcoal on paper, 56cm by 56cm

Flowers IX 2016
Charcoal on paper, 58cm by 58cm

Flowers X 2016
Charcoal on paper, 36cm by 40cm

Flowers XI 2016
Charcoal on paper, 48cm by 58cm

Hills like white elephants 2018
悬念 (I) (II) (III)
charcoal on paper
74.5cm x 52.5cm, 74.5cm x 33.5cm, 74.5cm x 27.5cm

Star Anaïs 2017
charcoal on paper

Untitled 2014
Charcoal on Canson paper

飯。菜。湯。 (Rice. Vegetables. Soup.) 2014
Charcoal on paper, 59cm by 52cm

Crystal I 2014
Charcoal on paper, 38cm by 42cm

Crystal II 2014
Charcoal on paper, 42cm by 42cm

Ear Cast Drawing 2013
Charcoal on paper

Lady of the Seine Cast Drawing 2013
Charcoal on paper