Info
Scarlett Yang (b.1996) is an artist and researcher whose practice exists at the intersection of ecological narrative, material intelligence, and technological speculation. Working across sculpture, installation, and time-based media, Yang investigates the poetics of transformation: how matter, identity, and systems are shaped by environmental conditions and digital generative processes. Her research-led approach explores themes of entropy, mutation, and adaptation.
Yang’s work has been exhibited internationally across art institutions and experimental platforms, and her pieces often evolve in situ, engaging local climate, temporality, and audience presence as active agents in the work’s formation. Her background straddles Eastern and Western cultural contexts, and her transnational perspective informs a broader inquiry into the relationships between nature, technology, and speculative futures.
She is the recipient of multiple awards such as the LVMH Green Trail Award and her work has been collected by institutions such as the Wereldmuseum (NL).
Scarlett’s exhibitions include at the V&A Museum, Somerset House, Center for Heritage, Arts and Textiles and London Design Biennale. Her cross-disciplinary approach has attracted media attention from outlets like Financial Times, Vogue, and Wallpaper*.
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 Factory of Tomorrow, Centre of Heritage, Arts and Textiles, Hong Kong
2023 [solo] Beyond Nature, Somerset House, London, UK
2023 History in the Making, Compton Verney Gallery, UK
2023 Plastic Crush, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2023 Screenwear, Design Museum Den Bosch, The Netherlands
2022 Plastic Crush, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 Spirit of Ecstasy Challenge, Muse - Rolls Royce Art Programme, global tour
2021 Design For Our Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
2021 Create COP26, Art Partner and UNESCO, Glasgow UK and online
2021 Ars Electronica Festival 2021, Linz, Austria
2020 Alternative Futures, Kyoto Design Lab Tokyo Gallery, Japan
2020 Grey Matter, Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain
2020 2020 Vision, XYZ Exchange, London
2019 Dimension 2.5, Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Awards:
2022 Spirit of Ecstasy Challenge, Rolls Royce Muse
2020 LVMH Maison/0 Green Trail Prize
2021 UNESCO Earth Partner Prize Shortlist
2021 YouFab Global Creative Award
2020 The Mills Sustainability Prize
SHOWstudio Class of 2020
Residency and Talks
2023 Opening Panel, fotografiska, Berlin
2022 Sustainability Panel, Vogue BCG Conference, Warsaw
2020 Screenwalk Panel, Photographer’s Gallery UK x Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2019 Somerset House Studios London UK
2019 Artist Residency Arts Chiyoda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Education
MA Royal College of Art (UK)
MSc Imperial College London