Her exhibition history spans internationally. In addition to solo exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai, she has participated in residency programs in Singapore and Berlin (Die Brücke). Her group exhibitions have reached cities such as London, Stockholm, and Cologne, and her work has been presented at major institutions including the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai), steadily gaining scholarly attention within the contemporary art field.
With flowers as the central motif of her practice, Yuan Yuan has, over more than a decade of refinement and development, constructed a highly personalized visual language. Her works merge surreal imagery with a nuanced feminine sensibility, employing rich, layered color structures to create a cinematic sense of visual tension. Beginning from the organic logic of plant growth, she transforms close observation of nature into an extension of inner perception, allowing floral imagery to serve as a vessel that connects personal experience with the external world, and points toward reflections on the essence of life and states of being within urban contexts.
In terms of materials, Yuan Yuan demonstrates an open and continuously evolving practice, working across oil on canvas, mixed media, and extending into cross-media formats such as oil on steel. The consolidation of her floral vocabulary, through the interweaving of diverse visual languages, further advances her exploration and articulation of the symbiotic relationship between nature and life.
