Wenyi Pan
Wenyi Pan (b.1998)
Born in Hangzhou, China.
live and work in Glasgow and Edinburgh, UK.
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live and work in Glasgow and Edinburgh, UK.
Wenyi Pan is an artist and researcher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is a practice-based PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Working across mixed-media installation, sculpture, text and moving image, her practice explores structural misogyny, institutional power and the social fictions that shape female and migrant experience. Through materials experimentation and spatial construction, she approaches fictioning as a feminist method for reconfiguring dominant narratives and intervening in established systems of meaning, knowledge and control.
︎Education
2024-present Practice-based PhD University of Edinburgh
2021-2023 MFA (with Distinction) The Glasgow School of Art
2017-2021 BA Public Art (Public Sculpture Studio) China Academy of Art
︎Exhibitions and publications
2026
Screening: ‘Anatomy Lecture’, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2025
‘Time, Touch, Tactility’, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Edinburgh, Scotland)
ECA PGR Showcase, Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Splinter Festival: ‘ENYA 3.0’, The Alchemy Experiment (Glasgow, Scotland)
‘Broken Silence’, In Vitro Gallery, Summerhall (Edinburgh, Scotland)
‘MoonShine’, Bar Zero Zero (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2024
‘Sorry can you say that again?’, New Glasgow Soceity (Glasgow, Scotland)
‘A Defunct Recollection’ Solo Exhibition, South Block Gallery (Glasgow, Scotland)
2023
Artists’s Interview, Artists’ Collecting Society (Online)
‘A Room of One’s Own’, New Glasgow Society (Glasgow, Scotland)
MFA Degree Show, 5 Florence Street (Glasgow, Scotland)
Publication of ‘Not a Single Red Petal’, Issue 3, The Survivor Zine UK (London, England)
‘We Knew We Know Nothing of’, Saltspace Co-operative Gallery (Glasgow, Scotland)
Publication of ‘The Logbook’ Zine (Glasgow, Scotland)
2022
‘Narrative Flutter’, Barnes Building (Glasgow, Scotland)
MFA Interim Show, 5 Florence Street (Glasgow, Scotland)
2021
‘The Sun of Mind’ Art Exhibition, Sunlight Valley (Beijing, China)
‘Living in the Contemporary’ Degree Show, China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China)
2020
‘Song of Spirits’, Art Museum of CAA (Hangzhou, China)
‘Secret Garden’, China Academy of Art Public Space (Hangzhou, China)
2019
‘Look for history, View the society, Reflect on self’, CAA School of Sculpture and Public Art (Hangzhou, China)
Mostra, Viale delle Pinete (Carrara, Italy)
‘The Tender Land’, China Academy of Art Public Space (Hangzhou, China)
‘Unknown Vector’ Youth Sculptor Group Exhibition, T-Project (Hangzhou, China)
︎COnference
2026.4 Convenor, Archive as Method: Rewriting the Self in East Asian Art Practices, Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference (University of Cambridge)
2025.6 Speaker, Multiple Fictions as Spatial Practice: Reimagining Gendered Narratives through Installation, Globe New Voice 2025: Identity and the Construction of Space (DECR for ForArtHistory)
2025.6 Speaker, Playing with Multiple Fictions: Feminist Fictioning as Counter-Narrative, Counter-Narrative Conference: Feminist Counter-Narratives (University of Glasgow)
2024.5 Speaker, Playing with Multiple Fictions: Feminist Fictioning as Counter-Narrative and Worlding Strategy, Play and Imagination Conference: Making Alternative Futures (University of Stirling)
2022.11 Co-Speaker, The Logbook Collective: Reconnecting with our communities and our environments, International Journal of Art and Design Education [iJADE] 2022 Conference: Belonging: Dialogues for a culturally responsive art & design education (Online)
︎Experience
2026 Organiser Cross-Cultrual Writing and Making Workshop Series for ECA PGRs, Edinburgh College of Art
2025 Art Reviewer Asian Art Awards, Edinburgh Fringe 2025
2024-25 Ceramics Workshop Facilitator Glasgow Sculpture Studios
2024-26 Co-founder & Ceramist Petrichor Studio
2023-24 Artist in Residency / Fellow Glasgow Sculpture Studios
2023-24 Creative art teacher CS Media Glasgow Ltd.
2022 Co-founder & facilitator ‘The Logbook’ Community Art Project
2019 Member Simposio di scultura in marmo di Carrara
2019-20 Curator ‘T-Project’, CAA School of Sculpture and Public Art
2018 Teaching assistant Hangzhou Tianmu Art School
2017 Braille translator Zhejiang Library
︎Awards
2026 2026 AAH Doctoral & Early Career Research Bursary
2026 2025-26 UoE Discretionary [Hardship] Fund
2025 2025 UoE Student Experience Grant
2024 2024 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted Artist
2023 The ACS Glasgow Sculpture Studios Fellowship 23-24 2019 China Academy of Art First Prize Scholarship
2018 Zhejiang Provincial Government’s Scholarship
︎links (Click for viewing)
For art history conference SEssion: https://forarthistory.org.uk/session-archive-as-method-rewriting-the-self-in-east-asian-art-practices/
PGR | University of Edinburgh: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/wenyi-pan
aesthetica ARt PRize: artprize.aestheticamagazine.com/projects/wenyi-pan
Artists’ collecting society INTERVIEW: htartistscollectingsociety.org/news/artist-spotlight-2023-glasgow-sculpture-studios-fellowship-winner-wenyi-pan/
gsa Degree Show 2023: https://gsashowcase.net/wenyi-pan/
mfa archives: gsamfa.com/year/2023/wenyi-pan/
GSA Sustainability: www.gsasustainability.org.uk/resources/wenyi-pan-mfa
GSS Membership: https://www.glasgowsculpturestudios.org/wenyi-pan