Awards and Grants:
2019 First Prize, Professional Landscape category, Sony World Photography Awards
2018 One Hundred Heroines, The Royal Photographic Society, UK
2017 First Prize, Professional Commission, Syngenta Photography Award
River Stories, Project Grant, Arts Council England
Mother River, Top 8, Kaunas Photo 2017, Lithuanian
2016 Shiseido Photographer Prize, Three Shadows Photography Award, Beijing, China
2015 Selected artist and grant, 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, British Council (China)
2014 Mother River, Reviewers Choice Award, FORMAT International Portfolio Review, Derby, UK
Mother River, Clifton Camera Award, FORMAT International Portfolio Review, Derby, UK
Mother River, Genesis Imaging Award, FORMAT International Portfolio Review, Derby, UK
2013 Forest, Finalist, Renaissance Photography Prize, UK
Forest, 3rd Prize, Curator’s Choice Awards CENTER, Santa Fe, USA
2011 Residency Grant, Arts Council England, UK
2006 Research & Development Grant, Arts Council England, UK
Selected Artist for PAD Scheme, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester UK
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 Forest, Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Forest, LOOK Photo Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Forest, Cortona On The Move Photography Festival, Italy
He, LOOK Photo Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2018 Forest, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Gibson's Mill, Hebden Bridge, UK
She Dreams, LiverpoolONE, Liverpool, UK
Forest, 'After the Future' Contemporary Art Festival, Plymouth, UK
Forest, XPOSURE International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
2017 Forest, GETXOPHOTO, Getxo, Spain
Now and Before, Liverpool International Photography Festival, UK
Mother River, Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Mother River, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK
2015 Mother River, China Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China
Mother River, Wuhan Art Museum, China
Mother River, Swatch Art Peace Hotel Gallery, Shanghai, China
Mother River, Swatch Pavilion, the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
Mother River, Lianzhou Fotofestival, Lianzhou, China
2014 He - River Together, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale, UK
2011 Water • City, T-Art Space, Chongqing, China
2010 Creative Labs, Gallery II, University of Bradford, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2020 Paper Geographies, Manchester Central Library, UK
Ten by Ten: Ten Reviewers Select Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2018, Fotofest Biennial 2020, Houston, Texas, USA
Pier to Pier, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China.
2019 A Portrait of, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Pier to Pier, LOOK Biennial, St. George's Hall, Liverpool, UK
Forest in Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
209 Women, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
To the South of the Colourful Clouds, in Sony World Photography Awards exhibition, Somerset House, London
2018 209 Women, Portcullis House (The House of Parliament), London, UK
Forest, Family of No Man, The Rencontres d’Arles, France.
Forest, Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Three Shadows Photography Award, The Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing and Xiamen, China.
Mother River, 40 Years of Chinese Chinese Photography, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2017 Forest, Parallel 2017, C-Art Centre, Chongqing, China
Forest, Syngenta Photography Award, Somerset House, London, UK
Forest, Syngenta Photography Award, Saraceni House, Bologna, Italy
Mother River, Kaunas Photo 2017, Lithuania
2016 Mother River, Dubai Photo Exhibition Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Mother River, Immeasurable: Three Shadows Photography Annual Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing and Xiamen, China
Mother River, Pondyphoto 2016 Pondicherry, India
2014 Yuan, Beyond Camera, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
Yan, Flow- British and Chinese Landscape Artists, Xu Space, Chongqing, China
Yuan, Frames Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts, UK
2013 Forest, Renaissance Photography Prize, The Wapping Project Bankside, London, UK
Forest, Curve-CENTER Awards Exhibition, CENTER Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Forest, Polyphony Open-June Youth Artists Annual Exhibition, 102 Art Center, Chongqing, China
2012 Forest, Terra Cognita, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Holland
2010 China: Journey to the East, York Art Gallery, UK
Crunchtime2010, New School House Gallery, York, UK
The Trouble with These Boiled Sweets, City Screen Gallery/Oliver House, York, UK
2009 A Diamond in the Landscape, Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, UK
New Inc. Visual Arts Exhibition, Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, UK
2008 China, Local and Global, Leeds Central Library Gallery, UK
Chinese Treasures, Lotherton Hall Museum, Leeds, UK
Matchmaker, Sheffield United Football Club, UK
2007 Cherish: Chinese Families in Britain, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK