BIO
Tian Yang (b. 1982) grew up in China and immigrated to the United States in his early twenties. He received a Licence Arts Plastiques (Visual Arts) from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a BFA concentrating on Photography/Filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yang went on to pursue his MFA in Photography at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Czech Republic, for his great admiration of Josef Sudek's photography and Czechoslovak New Wave cinema.
Inspired by a life experience navigating through various cultures, Yang’s photography investigates cultural identity under the increasing inuence of globalization. Cultural authenticity, cultural myth, nation building, boundary maintaining, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism are topics of his special interest. Yang photographs with a large format camera on 8"x10" color transparency lm. He then laboriously builds a light box to hold and present each sheet of lm. His contemporary light box photographs share a kinship with the historic Daguerreotype photography, since both processes result in one-of-a-kind art objects that are intimate and mesmerizing.
Yang has been living and working in New England since 2018. He was the Photography Fellow at Dartmouth College from 2018 to 2021, and from 2021 to 2024 the Photography & Printmaking Technical Manager at Dartmouth College. At ¶¶Òõ̽̽, Yang works as the Photography & Digital Studios Coordinator, interfacing with students, faculty and staff from both the Art/Art History Program and Film and Television Studies.
Bio
Tian Yang (b. 1982) grew up in China and immigrated to the United States in his early twenties. He received a Licence Arts Plastiques (Visual Arts) from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a BFA concentrating on Photography/Filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yang went on to pursue his MFA in Photography at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Czech Republic, for his great admiration of Josef Sudek's photography and Czechoslovak New Wave cinema.
Inspired by a life experience navigating through various cultures, Yang’s photography investigates cultural identity under the increasing inuence of globalization. Cultural authenticity, cultural myth, nation building, boundary maintaining, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism are topics of his special interest. Yang photographs with a large format camera on 8"x10" color transparency lm. He then laboriously builds a light box to hold and present each sheet of lm. His contemporary light box photographs share a kinship with the historic Daguerreotype photography, since both processes result in one-of-a-kind art objects that are intimate and mesmerizing.
Yang has been living and working in New England since 2018. He was the Photography Fellow at Dartmouth College from 2018 to 2021, and from 2021 to 2024 the Photography & Printmaking Technical Manager at Dartmouth College. At ¶¶Òõ̽̽, Yang works as the Photography & Digital Studios Coordinator, interfacing with students, faculty and staff from both the Art/Art History Program and Film and Television Studies.