Ping Yan (Amy) is a Shanghai-based artist who works at the intersection of interior design, graphic communication, and art education. She uses current events as inspiration for works that reveal her ambiguity and dilemma in responding to the issues. Her artistic approaches are expressive and playful.

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Ping Yan (Amy)'s work includes moving image, installation, photography and drawing. Her video work primarily consists of bodily performance interacting with objects in the urban context. Her installations are site-specific and involve interactive elements. She also creates visual journals recording moments from daily life.

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Ping Yan (Amy) makes her artwork in an experimental and intuitive way. She requires all her work to have a close relationship to the site and she considers site-analysis and on-site testing the most essential process of her work. Yan is interested in the inter-relationship among all her works and allows the works to grow in new contexts.

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Ping Yan (Amy)'s practice responds to both positive and negative effects of rocketing development in cities and inner suburbs. The subject matter of Yan’s works is the visual modification of public space through human body gestures and the setting up of playful events to draw attention to physical presence and social engagement.