Born in 1989, Beijing, Luka Yuanyuan Yang is a visual artist and filmmaker. She does visual storytelling through film, photography, artist books and performance. Yang received awards internationally from organisations such as Art Power 100 (2019), Asian Cultural Council (2017), Huayu Youth Award (2016), Rencontres d’Arles (2015), Magenta Foundation (2013) and Three Shadows Tierney Fellowship (2012).
Her recent solo exhibitions include Shanghai Low at OCAT, Shanghai (2020), Dalian Mirage at AIKE, Shanghai (2019), Theater of Crossroads at Chinese America Arts Council Gallery 456, New York (2018), Interval at Modern Art Base, Shanghai (2018) and At the Place of Crossed Sights at C-Space, Beijing (2016). In 2018, Yang was the artist-in-residence at Art in General and UnionDocs in New York. In 2019, her first short film Coby and Stephen are in Love, co-directed with Carlo Nasisse, was screened at multiple international film festivals such as Atlanta Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Asian American International Film Festival and Women Make Waves. In 2021, the film was featured in The New Yorker.