Yitian Sun Sanctuary, 2024 USD 25,001 - 50,000 Acrylic on canvas Edition Unique 205.0 x 158.0 x 7.0 （厘米） 80.7 x 62.2 x 2.8 （吋） Sun Yitian (b.1991, Zhejiang, China) graduated from the Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) in 2015 and earned her Master Degree in 2018. She is now completing her doctorate of Literature at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Her practice, which spans painting, installation, performance, and fashion, employs material objects as metaphors of labor and production to reveal the inner mechanisms of our consumer society. Sun's often photo-realist works examines the secret, increasingly tenuous connection between seduction and fear as well as the sculptural 'thingness' of her subjects. Sun was selected for the Influential 2023: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2019, and received the WSJ China's ON THE FIELD Creator of the Year Award and "BOB Best of the Best" 2022 Young Artist Award. Her works have been exhibited at BANK Gallery, Esther Schipper, Mine Projects, Almine Rech, Paris and major organizations such as the Lion Palace, Berlin; Samaritaine, Paris; Macao Museum of Art; UCCA Edge, Shanghai, as well as Frieze London and FIAC. Her work is held in the following collections: White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; By Art Matters, Hangzhou; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; M WOODS, Beijing; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing and Long Museum, Shanghai, etc. Recent exhibitions include Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2023); Projection, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (2023); Nián Nián :The Power and Agency of Animal Forms, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing (2023); The Infinite Conversation: 2022 Beijing Biennial "Symbiosis", National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing (2022); "Summer 22", Esther Schipper, Berlin (2022); The Pieces I Am, Shanghai, UCCA Edge (2022); "Art's Language, Artists Game", OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen (2022); The Disconnected Generation, Song Art Museum, Beijing (2022).