Research direction: modern ceramic art, ceramic art in environment
Jiang Yan, PhD, Member of International Academy of Ceramics, Member of China Artists Association. She started her teaching career at Nanjing University of the Arts since 2000. Visiting artist at School of Art ANU (2003) and Danmark Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center (2004,2007), visiting scholar at School of Art Kassel University(2011). Started to teach at the School of Architecture, Southeast University from May, 2024.
She has published more than 20 articles, and 2 books. She set up her own design brand Yanze Ceramics in 2013, and owned 16 design patents. Her works have been selected for many important national and international exhibitions, won several awards, such as the First Prize in the first BLANC DE CHINE International Ceramic Art Competition, and the Premier Award in the 2004 Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award. Some of her works were collected by the V&A Museum, the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (Stoke-on-trent), Ariana Museum, the Yingge Ceramic Museum and the Korea Icheon World Ceramic Center, etc.
In 2012, she was selected into the Nanjing 321 Talent Development Plan, and the project Integration of Pure Art and Design was selected as an excellent case of industry-university-research cooperation in Chinese universities (2016). In the past ten years, her undergraduate and graduate students have won more than 20 national and international awards in ceramic art competitions and design exhibitions.
Recent Exhibitions
2023 The Spirit of ZHONG: contemporary Chinese Design and Craft exhibition, Sea World Cultural and Arts Center, Shenzhen
2022 Migration: 50th IAC congress exhibition, Ariana Museum, Switzerland
2021 Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2021, Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Icheon, Korea
2019 The 13th Chinese National Art Exhibition, Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Museum
2019 Three Paths: Academic Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Crafts, Crafts Museum of CAA, Hangzhou
2018 Premio Faenza Biennial exhibition, MIC Faenza, Italy
2018 To Ideal Land of Ceramics: Exhibition of International Contemporary. Ceramic Works, Tsinghua University Art Musuem, Beijing
2017 The 9th Cheongju International Ceramic Biennale, Cheongju Korea
2017 The First BLANC DE CHINE International Ceramic Art Award, Musée des Confluences, Lyon France
2016 Cont{r}act Earth: First Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, Zhengzhou
