Yvonne Feng (b. Guangdong, China) is an artist, researcher, and educator based in Hong Kong and London. She completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2014 and her practice-led PhD, titled 'Tracing the Unspeakable: Painting as Embodied Seeing', at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2020. She is an Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL and a former Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Painting at University of Brighton. 

In her painting practice, Yvonne Feng takes possession of life and societal events, infusing them with her own imaginary and subjective experiences. Through playful experimentation with figural forms and painterly gestures, Feng searches for representations that defy singular narratives and predefined meanings of events, making visible the intricate human condition within the midst of these occurrences.

Feng’s recent paintings explore the nuanced relationship between the body and barriers. Her work investigates the boundaries of the canvas, the constraints of imposed physical and domestic spaces, and the intimate confines of the body. She sets up the canvas as a stage, incorporating symbolic boundaries and confined spaces that serve as a backdrop for contemplating how bodies conform or resist predetermined rules, structures, and restrictions. Mark makings and gestures are applied tactilely and suggestively, referring to gestures of cleaning, erasing, concealing, defying, protesting, feigning, and malfunctioning. The imaginary figure is employed as an agent for negotiating the inextricable relationships between the individual and the external crisis, the inner self and the collective, freedom and protection. By embodying existential entrapped situations, Feng questions whether the body is controlled or autonomous, disciplined or free. For her, painting serves as a means of exercising and pushing both her own capacity and that of the body to resist and revolt against oppressive forces.

​Feng has presented solo exhibitions in the UK and participated in group exhibitions in the UK, France, and the USA. Her work is held in the UCL Art Museum Collection as well as in private collections worldwide.