Ran Yuxiao

He was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, 1996. In 2012, after obtaining a full scholarship from the Minster of Education in Singapore, He went to Singapore to study overseas. He completed his O Level and A Level examinations respectively in Anderson Secondary School and Victoria Junior College. He began his formal art education while studying in Singapore. In 2016, He was accepted by Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and started pursuing his college education in the U.S. In 2020, He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) upon graduation from MICA.

Using realism as his primary tool, he takes up the role like a mailman, He transports and delivers written languages, iconography, and imagery of urban landscapes from places where he has lived, with minimum alterations of their original form, into one single composition. By doing so, he creates unusual visual documentations that are set to induce you to question the logic and reason behind the existence of any artifact you would find interesting in his work.In a way, his works are essentially recounts of his subjective experiences of multiple artificial spaces, in which the commonalities and differences present in the way we think and act in our respective social and political environments would manifest upon close examination and contemplation.