Yuxing Chen (b. 1998, China) is a research-based photography practitioner. She received her MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts London.
Photography has expanded her perspective as a new approach to narrative and representation. Her photographic practice is centred around the creation and discussion of the decolonisation of difference, the exoticism of Orientalism and the gaze that it brings.
Yuxing has been awarded the IPE Award from the Royal Photographic Society and is the winner of the Constructed Photography Global Sino Award 2024. Her works have been selected as TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography, finalised for the Encontros da Imagem Discovery Award(2024, PT), the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2023, Switzerland), long-listed for the OD Photo Prize (2023, UK), selected for the Copenhagen Photo Festival(2024, DK), Athens Photo Festival (2024, GK ), the PhMuseum Days Exhibition(2023, Italy), nominated for the 4th 1839 Photography Prize(2022, China). Her work has been exhibited in Italy, England, Germany and China.
Her work is in private and public collections at the Zhejiang Art Museum and the University of the Arts London. She has been featured in the British Journal of Photography, Chinese Photography, RPS Journal, GUP magazine and many other press.