Black hair swirling upwards, a face awash in gradients of the rainbow peers at the viewer with a slight smile, framed by her large, clear glasses and light blue bed sheets.

Yidan Zeng 曽一丹 (they/them) is a queer, Chinese American artist raised by Guangzhou, China and Memphis, TN who stitches together text/iles, performance, and ancestral rituals toward an embodied practice of attention and care. They use the relational as both material and site of research, exploring the body as a portal to what we might not yet know.


They've been a Crosstown Artist-in-Residence as part of the MengCheng 梦城团 Collective (2023), Textile Arts Center Artist-in-Residence (2020), a Create Change Fellow with The Laundromat Project (2018), and a visiting glass artist at The University of Hawai'i in Mānoa (2018). Yidan received their BA and BFA from the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program in Computer Science and Glass.


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