Shuqiao Yang

About

Shuqiao Yang is a Chinese visual artist with a background in digital media art. Her practice spans a wide range of formats, including book design, board games, and motion-based visuals. While her earlier works explored diverse modes of visual output, her recent focus has turned toward the emotional and psychological dimensions of lived experience. She employs cross-media strategies as both expressive tools and psychological devices—tracing the often-unseen imprints of memory, sensation, and emotion embedded in everyday life.

During her MA in Print at the Royal College of Art, Yang’s practice centered around personal psychology, using material and digital experimentation as a way to externalize internal states. In Echoes of the Self, she used TouchDesigner to generate real-time visual compositions that responded to her psychological fluctuations. These fragmented digital outputs were reinterpreted through the tactile process of screen printing, creating layered records of introspection and emotional resonance.

Her interactive project Taste Venture transforms a classic board game format into a sensory journey of food, memory, and psychological experience. With soft translucent materials, transparent pieces, and memory-triggering task cards, the game creates a gentle psychological buffer zone where players are encouraged to reflect on overlooked emotional cues embedded in their everyday eating experiences.

For Yang, art is a method of tracing “silent imprints”—a fluid medium through which memory becomes a flexible entity, open to reconstruction and reinterpretation. Through gamified interaction and multi-sensory engagement, she creates perceptual spaces where the personal and collective intersect, offering room for emotional processing and self-awareness.

In addition to her introspective projects, she also engages with social questions and the contradictions of digital life—examining how systems driven by profit can distort original intentions. Her work continues to mediate between the internal and external, the intuitive and the constructed, always seeking new ways to make the invisible felt.