Shin Yang is an artist and spatial designer originally from Taiwan and now based between Los Angeles and Taipei. Yang’s work is deeply shaped by the places they have lived in, traveled to, or dreamt of.
Working across architecture, multimedia art, and digital media, Yang often explores memory, perception, and spatial narratives. Their ongoing project, Palimpsest, funded by the National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant, investigates the fluidity of spatial memory and its representations through research and immersive media.
Yang received a Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley in 2023 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2018. They are the recipient of the National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant (2024, 2025), the Chester Miller Fellowship (2023), and the John K. Branner Fellowship (2022).
GRANTS
2025
National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant
The National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF) was established to foster the development of arts and culture, support professional artistic practices, and advance cultural engagement in Taiwan. Yang received a grant from NCAF in 2025 to support their residency at Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain, during November–December 2025.
2024
National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant
Yang received a major grant from the National Culture and Arts Foundation in 2024 for their ongoing project, Palimpsest. The grant supports the project’s full two-year development beginning in January 2025.
2023
Chester Miller Fellowship
The Chester Miller Fellowship celebrates exceptional research and design in architecture. Yang received this award for her project, Detours & Deviations (2023), an immersive experience that dynamically integrates memories, participant behaviors, and AI technology.
2022
John K. Branner Fellowship
The John K. Branner Fellowship supports independent travel to explore specific architectural questions or issues. Among its applicants, Yang was recognized for her research into the mental structures of urban environments.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS
2024
Shortlisted – London International Creative Competition – Professional Category
Portraits of Places (2023)
2022
Shortlisted – International Architecture Competition – Home for the Blind
Touch House (2022)
RESIDENCIES
Can Serrat – International Art Residency (2025); El Bruc, Spain
A six-week residency for visual artists, multidisciplinary artists, and writers from around the world.
Hualien Stone Sculpture Studio Program (2015); Hualien, Taiwan
A one-month residency offering artists the opportunity to create within multiple stone sculpting studios in Hualien.
COLLABORATIONS
VR Installation
Palimpsest (2025-); Paul Wang, Hanyi Zhang
Detours & Deviations (2022-2024); Paul Wang
Through the Looking Glass (2023); Eric Wang, Paul Wang, Kevin Wang, Jasmine Zheng
Architectural Design
Michael Maltzan Architecture (2024)
YWR Architects (2023-2024)
Media Installation
Time Decay (2024); Arianna Khmelniuk
Carbonivore (2023); Asma Kazmi, Jill Miller
228-Meter Decoration (2017); David Brna
Scenic Design
English (2023) / Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA, United States
Within These Walls (2023), In the Red and Brown Water (2022) / Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA, United States
Graphic Design
Ghibli Graduate Guild Logo (2023); Ghibli Graduate Guild
Issue 10 “Body+Performance” (2022) at Room One Thousand
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Open House (2025); Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain
Liminal Spaces (2023); Platform Artspace, Berkeley, CA, United States
On Detour (2023); Bauer Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States
Branner, Stump & Beckerman Returning Fellows Exhibition (2023); Bauer Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States
95-3 Geographical Park (2018); joint exhibition with artist Han-Jou Hou; Wanhua, Taipei, Taiwan
Šaloun Collectivity Problems Research Itinerant Institute (2017); Šaloun, Prague, Czech Republic
Bird on a Wire (2017); Šaloun, Prague, Czech Republic
From Another World (2017); Puli, Nantou / Art Lynn, Sanyi, Miaoli, Taiwan
Stone Sculpture – Life (2016); National Taitung Living Art Center, Taitung, Taiwan
Ka-Shan (2016), TNUA Underground Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibition of Hualien Stone Sculpture Studio Program (2015); Hualien Art Museum, Hualien, Taiwan
EDUCATION
2020 – 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Master of Architecture (M.Arch)
2017 – 2018
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Exchange Student Program
2014 – 2018
Taipei National University of the Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Graduated with Highest Academic Distinction