Shi Yangkun (b.1992, Henan) is currently based in Shanghai. He graduated from the documentary photography program at the London College of Communication in 2016. His artistic practice draws upon personal and collective historical experiences, focusing on the visual construction of violence, trauma and memory, and exploring the dynamics of power and perspective during the transitions of modernity in China.
His works were exhibited at the Forschungscampus Dahlem, Berlin (2025); Goethe-Institut Beijing (2025); A4 Art Museum, Chengdu (2025); Stadtmuseum Berlin (2024); Zhejiang Art Museum (2023); Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (2023); and the Peabody Essex Museum (2022). His works are held in public collections at the Peabody Essex Museum, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, and the Zhejiang Art Museum.
Group Exhibitions
2025, Present, Solo Exhibition, Chapter 6, Shanghai
Currents, Auf den Spuren der deutschen Kolonialvergangenheit in China, Forschungscampus Dahlem, Berlin
DBN Prelude: Decolonial Gaze, Goethe Institut, Beijing
Recreate the East, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2024, Colonial Ghosts - Resistant Spirits: Church, Colonialism and Beyond, Museum Nikolaikirche, Stadtmuseum Berlin
Workshop: Colonial Translocations of Plants and Taste, Gropius Bau
Media, Style and Identity in Contemporary Photography, X-Museum, Changsha
2023, Asia Pioneer Photographer Foundation, Dali International Photography Exhibition
Reconstructing Light and Shadow, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art
2022, Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China, Peabody Essex Museum, USA
2021, Common Breath, The INCHINA Forum, Incheon, Korea
2020, NORMALISED ABNORMAL, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, China
2019, TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photographer, Zhejiang Art Museum, China
2018, Social Geography: Ten Journeys with a Camera, Shanghai Center of Photography
Pubilc Collections
Peabody Essex Museum
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation
Zhejiang Art Museum
Photography Museum of Lishui