Born in Xinjiang, China in 1992, Jiang Yifan began to pursue her artistic career in Beijing where she graduated from the Art College of Renmin University of China. She has also obtained his Master’s degree from the same university. She works and lives in Beijing.

Jiang Yifan’s works have been exhibited in China. Notable exhibitions include a solo show “Monodrama” Jiang Yifan Solo Exhibition, Mountain Art Beijing & Frank Lin Art Center, Beijing and group shows as “Yu”, Art Museum of Renmin University of China, Beijing,  Art Nova 100 artist, Guardian Art Center, Beijing and Transboundary Ink and Water, Art Museum of Renmin University of China, Beijing among others.

In Jiang Yifan works, a delicate and contemporary breath of air passes through these characteristic landscapes, representing an artistic tradition that goes back for thousands of years, from the Song and Yuan dynasties, and carries them back all the way to us.  

Inspired by traditional Chinese painting, Jiang Yifan builds a personal theatre. From classical scenes, she transports us into a secret world, tinged with poetry, and often bordering on the surreal. By using the natural elements, so inseparable from traditional Chinese painting - the mountains, the rivers, the sea - the artist shows her desire to evolve in a framework which is attached to the past, to her own culture. "My in-depth study of Chinese art at university has influenced my artistic style. When I looked at these ancient works, explored these mountains and rivers, these temples, with artists who came before me, a different way of combining them came to mind. " 

The space beyond the frame is central to Jiang Yifan's work. Like a show, her painting is in movement, and carries an echo far beyond itself... The technique chosen by the artist reinforces its " hectic ", living aspect. The silk, its slippery, elusive aspect, vibrates at the slightest rustle of air... The spectator's body is involved, since a strong desire to pull aside the painted curtain brings them to the unveiled work, to the story that is unfolding. What is that woman looking at in the far distance, perched on her horse? Where are the singers that the chairs seem to be waiting for? Is the event taking place somewhere else?

Nature, through work, is pared down. With Jiang Yifan's brushstrokes, the lines simplify, curve and soften... The details are smoothed over, until all traces of change are erased. But the artist is not content with revisiting these totems of the past, she also introduces into the middle of her scenes, incongruous elements - chairs and microphones placed on the sea, for example - which create absurd sequences, on the edge of dreams. The proportions make a mockery of reality... The characters are reminiscent of the style of the Colombian painter Fernando Botero, with their round and voluptuous forms and their lack of feeling.