Charlotte Yao

Charlotte Yao is a Chinese-Canadian artist, curator, and researcher based in London, currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at University of the Arts London. Working with moving image, photography, installation, and experimental writing, Yao uses autotheory to frame her practice through personal experience, examining Chinese diasporic life and feminist questions shaped by migration, family history, and the structures of patriarchy across homeland and diaspora.

Her current PhD project, Through a Feminist Lens: Counter-narratives of the Unspeakable Chinese Diasporic Experience, develops a diasporic feminist counter-narrative that centres intersectional identity and lived experience. Her work aims to create space for dialogue, support community, and challenge dominant cultural narratives through shared storytelling.

Instagram: @charlotte_yao_duojin

Let’s Go to America

Untitled Landscape 2

Mom’s Thirtieth Year Portrait