Gao Yuan

Born in Taiwan. She studied photography in Tokyo Japan at the Nihon Academy of Fine Art university and in New York at the New York Film Academy. She practiced commercial and fashion photography while at the same time pursuing a career in Fine Art photography, combining western and eastern cultural elements to demonstrate how cultural identity is shaped by the socio-political environment. She has been the recipient of the Grand Prize at Kaunas Lithuania Biennial 2014. In 2014 she was awarded The Terna Contemporary Art Prize and was an award winner at the Soho Photo Gallery Competition in New York. Her work has been the subject of frequent exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and US.