Yuxiao Ran

(b. 1996)

is an artist from Chengdu, China. He was awarded a full government scholarship (SM1) to study in Singapore from 2011 to 2015, during which Ran received his first formal art education at Victoria Junior College in 2014. Ran earned his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, US In 2020, and his MA in painting from Royal College of Art in London, UK, in 2023. He now lives and works in London.

Ran’s paintings are a record, or a re-creation of his present experience. Ran primarily uses representational language to arrange images and motifs from different cultural spaces and times on the canvas. He aims to challenge and subvert our habitual reading of images and symbols. This "collage-like" visual arrangement never relies on predetermined compositions, and seeks to reenact the chaotic realism of contemporary socio-cultural situations. The process of Ran’s creation is a series of calculated, idiosyncratic, and playful engagement with existing pictorial languages in a context of multiculturalism.