Zhuoyan Yao was born in a megacity in China called Guangzhou. She came to United States in 2014, and started pursuing her Studio Arts degree in 2016 in Jonesboro Arkansas.
She is dedicated to express her faith and present the transcendence through her artworks.
In 2017, She got baptized in a church and started pursuing her faith. After that, her works were deeply inspired by Christian theology. She sees the art practice as a worshipful experience with God, and a tool to translate the divine language into the secular world.
Zhuoyan is also strongly influenced by minimalism, light and space movement, Cornelia Parker, Julie Mehretu, Joseph Kosuth etc. She has an obsession with discovering different materials. She investigates the voice of the materials to express purity, and beauty. Her intention to draw viewers into endless time and space is shown in her works.
The Garden,
the name of the beautiful world created by God, the Creator.
It was created beautifully. It is broken, yet beautiful now, and it will be made new.
I made this exhibition to show how I see what is the world and what is happening in the world: the visible beauty from the invisible goodness, the abundance from the emptiness, the multiplicity with unity, the broken into the whole, the grave into the Garden.
I do not just consider my exhibition as a metaphor, but a prophetic act.
