楊學芹 Kanny Yeung

born 1992 Hong Kong
kannypaints@gmail.com

Embracing the Biophilia Hypothesis, Kanny Yeung’s work involves field-based material and artistic research, biomaterial experiments, ephemeral installations of ecological sculptures and painting. During residencies in Iceland (2023) and Mongolia (2025), she engaged with found biomaterial from the shore|steppe, evolving the algae|wool through traditional technologies of knitting|braiding into site-responsive installations of ephemeral sculptures that are returned to their sources in nature.

Like learning different instruments to make different sounds, she is currently diving into experimental techniques to visualize behaviours of water in fluidflux. Immersing in the alchemy of cathartic repetition, her duo show Wild things (2022) embraces the raw emotions conjured during heartbreak that echo the spiraling ecological rupture. Recurring walks to the waterfall transmute into fields of delicate ink-brush strokes illuminating dark undercurrents. Emerging in her solo show Woo (2022) is a re-connection to the celestial sphere—glowing orbs, spinning spirits and bewitching blooms culminate in a supernatural landscape highlighted with iridescent shimmer.

Hopping off the concrete path, Kanny is setting her nomadic studio in-touch with diverse cultures and natural environments as she collects and processes pigments from the wild to ground painting back down to Earth. She continues to traverse the boundaries between chance and control, turbulence and harmony, the ethereal and uncanny.

EDUCATION

2014 BFA Communication Design, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA

RESIDENCY / STUDIO

2025 Nomadic Red Corner Residency, Mongolia
(2 weeks)

2024-2025 Surya Studio, Bali, Indonesia
(1 year)

2024 The Moosey Residency, Norwich, UK
(1 month)

2023 NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
(3 months)

2021-2022 永樂 Studio, Hong Kong
(1 year)

2019-2020 Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne, Australia
(8 months)

EXHIBITION

2025 Color 2025, CICA Museum, South Korea
(group)

2025 We Are Ephemeral, Mongolia
(ecological sculpture installation)

2024 The Bliss of Solitude, Front Four Gallery, Stowe, USA
(group)

2023 Biophilia Hypothesis, Skagaströnd Shore, Iceland
(ecological sculpture installation)

2022 Woo, Odds and Ends, Hong Kong
(solo)

2022 野生嘢 Wild Things, Parallel Space, Hong Kong
(duo)

2022 Nowhere Land, Parallel Space, Hong Kong
(group)

2021 Newness, Gallery HZ, Hong Kong
(group)

2020 Unnatural Histories IX, Antler Gallery, Portland, USA
(group)

2020 Locals, Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
(group)

GRANT

2025 Hong Kong Arts Development Council Cultural Exchange Grant

PUBLICATION

2022 Woo (Handwritten & Handbound Artist Book, Edition of 50)

2012 Dyslexic Notation: Combining Aesthetics and Scientific Notation To Combat Dyslexia (co-designed with Gerald Morin), Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Volume IV, Issue 3

COMMISSION WORK

2025 Immersive, Lissa Lee Hickman (USA)

2025 Marine Currents for The Mariners, Studio Amal (Hong Kong)

2025 Rhythms in Nature for 33 Kennedy Road, Studio Ella (Hong Kong)

2024 Cloudscapes for Luminara, The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection (Netherlands/USA)

COLLECTIONS

AIA Group, Hong Kong

The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, USA