Yanran Bi is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work spans a range of outputs, including locative audio experiences, interactive installations/instruments, and performances/exhibitions. Through these mediums, she crafts poetic experiences that render the intangible aspects of culture, landscape, and time into form and texture. Her practice is often site-specific, immersing herself in environments to examine and extract the subtle ambiances of space—sound, light, memory, spirit—and weaving them into imagined propositions.
-> Contact
yanranbiii@gmail.com
-> Education
MFA -Rhode Island School of Design, Digital & Media, 2022-2024
BEng -New York University Shanghai, Interactive Media Arts, 2017-2021
-> Commissions
Sound Artist, SIGMA and B&O joint show 4’33”
Sound Artist, Maison Margiela, “The Memory of ... Streets”
->Residency
Upcoming: Amazonica, Peruvian Amazon, Peru, 2025
Worldwide Friends, Iceland, 2023
->Awards & Honors
Sound Walk September Awards 2024 Shortlisted
Graduate Commons Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
Conference & Exhibition Fund, Rhode Island School of Design
Collegiate Teaching Certificate, Rhode Islang School of Design
Hornors in Interactive Media Arts, New York University Shanghai
Deans’ Undergraduate Research Fund, New York University Shanghai
-> Exhibition & Performance
2025
“Symbiosis”, Utopia & GSAG, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, United States
2024
“4’33””, Sigma and Bang&Olufsen joint show, Sigma Showroom, Columbia Circle, Shanghai
“Melting Walls”, Murmur Contemporary, Montreux, Switzerland
“Jukebox of Dissonance” UAAD Annaual Festival, New York, NY, United States
Art School Confidential 10 at MASARY Studios, Boston, MA, United States
“Art For Oceans”, Wild Geese Gallery, New York, NY, United States
RISD Grad Show 2024, Rhode Island Convention Center, RI, United States
“Of Other Places”, Sojourner Gallery, NY, United States
“They Keep Changing The Key”, Sol Koffler Gallery, RI, United States
“Melting Walls”, Murmur Contemporary, Montreux, Switzerland
“Jukebox of Dissonance” UAAD Annaual Festival, New York, NY, United States
Art School Confidential 10 at MASARY Studios, Boston, MA, United States
“Art For Oceans”, Wild Geese Gallery, New York, NY, United States
RISD Grad Show 2024, Rhode Island Convention Center, RI, United States
“Of Other Places”, Sojourner Gallery, NY, United States
“They Keep Changing The Key”, Sol Koffler Gallery, RI, United States
2023
“From Now On” solo show, RISD Center for Integrative
Technologies, RI, United States
2021
FutureLab 2021, Shanghai, China
“Neo-Imaginaria”, Brownie Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Between Life and Death”, New York University Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Neo-Imaginaria”, Brownie Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Between Life and Death”, New York University Gallery, Shanghai, China