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Yihan Pan
Photographer
Yihan Pan (b. 2002, Beijing) is a visual artist based in London. She studied BA at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, and MA Photography at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London.
Working with microscopes and telescopes, her practice explores material transformation through fleeting states of dust, water, and light. Moving across macro and microscopic scales, she examines how ephemeral forms carry traces of time and change. Through photography and installation, her work investigates the tension between permanence and dissolution. Influenced by writers such as Francis Ponge, Georges Perec, and Italo Calvino, she seeks to accompany fragility and present the lightness that endures beneath the world’s surface weight.
Her work has been exhibited at the BBC Television Centre, Greatorex Street Gallery (London), CAFAM Art Museum (Beijing), De Bouwput (Amsterdam), and Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025. She will also present new work during London Design Festival 2025 and THE 10th JIMEI × ARLES INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre. Her works are held in both private and institutional collections. Uncertainties (artist book, co-authored with José Cárdenas) was acquired by the Photography Library at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), Brazil, in 2025.
Yihan Pan
Photographer
Yihan Pan (b. 2002, Beijing) is a visual artist based in London. She studied BA at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, and MA Photography at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London.
Working with microscopes and telescopes, her practice explores material transformation through fleeting states of dust, water, and light. Moving across macro and microscopic scales, she examines how ephemeral forms carry traces of time and change. Through photography and installation, her work investigates the tension between permanence and dissolution. Influenced by writers such as Francis Ponge, Georges Perec, and Italo Calvino, she seeks to accompany fragility and present the lightness that endures beneath the world’s surface weight.
Her work has been exhibited at the BBC Television Centre, Greatorex Street Gallery (London), CAFAM Art Museum (Beijing), De Bouwput (Amsterdam), and Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025. She will also present new work during London Design Festival 2025 and THE 10th JIMEI × ARLES INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre. Her works are held in both private and institutional collections. Uncertainties (artist book, co-authored with José Cárdenas) was acquired by the Photography Library at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), Brazil, in 2025.
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