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Yan Wang Preston
Dr Yan Wang Preston is a British-Chinese artist and visual researcher interested in the contested states of nature in contemporary societies. Her major projects include Mother River and Forest, both of which have won major international awards such as the First Prize, Syngenta Photography Award and First Prize, Professional Landscape of Sony World Photography Awards 2019. Her solo exhibitions have been shown at venues including the Side Gallery, Newcastle, Gallery of Photography Ireland, the 56th Venice Biennale and Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum. Preston’s monographs are Forest and Mother River (Hatje Cantz, 2018). She received a Ph.D. in photography at the University of Plymouth in 2018 and lectures at the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
Contact: Department of Art and Communication, School of Art, Design and Architecture, The University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK.