Shuai Yang is a New York based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, printmaking, drawing, painting, and installation. Her practice investigates the conflicts between lived experience and man-made laws, with a particular focus on challenging systems of measurement.

From body-based concepts to objectified instruments such as rulers and levels, Yang engages with systems of measure that both promise clarity and conceal the violence of abstraction. She often stages tension between these systems and natural materials—tree branches, slate, metal—highlighting the invisible space between natural existence and representational power.

Yang focuses on the language of suspension (both conceptually and physically) to expose the push-and-pull moments between subject and representation—like a surgeon incising skin to locate the tumor. Suspended are not only objects, but also meanings, power dynamics, habitual flights of thoughts, and normative syntax. Suspension reveals a field of uncertainty, where the dominant structure cannot define meaning without the activation of a sensing subject.

During the residency, Yang continues to open a space for reorientation toward sensation and dissonance. Her work seeks to release proliferation and indeterminacy from the grip of systems that disguise control as clarity, and quantification as truth.