Awards and Grants:
2019 First Prize, Professional Landscape, 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
2016 Shiseido Photographer Prize, Three Shadows Photography Award, China
2015 Selected artist, 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, British Council
2014 Reviewers Choice Award, FORMAT Portfolio Review, Derby, UK
Clifton Camera Award, FORMAT Portfolio Review, Derby, UK
Genesis Imaging Award, FORMAT Portfolio Review, Derby, UK
2013 Finalist, Renaissance Photography Prize, UK
Third 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:
2021 Yan Wang Preston, Street Views, Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland
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, the 56th Venice Biennale, Swatch Pavilion, Italy
Mother River, Lianzhou Fotofestival, Lianzhou, China
2014 Hé - River Together, Touchstones Rochdale, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021 Forest, in The Art of Trees, Gund Gallery, Ohio, USA
Forest, in Cohabitation, Berlin, Germany
She and He, in Public Life, Fotofest, Houston, Texas, USA
2020 Mother River, in The Climate Emergency In 50 Rounds, Fotobokfestival Oslo, Norway
Paper Geographies, Manchester Central Library, UK
Forest, in Ten by Ten, Fotofest Biennial 2020, Houston, Texas, USA
Forest, in Pier to Pier, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
2019 She Dreams, in A Portrait of, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Forest, in 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
Forest, in Sony World Photography Awards exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
2018 209 Women, Portcullis House (The House of Parliament), London, UK
Forest, in Family of No Man, The Rencontres d’Arles, France
Forest, in Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Three Shadows Photography Award, The Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing and Xiamen, China
Mother River, in 40 Years of Chinese Chinese Photography, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2017 Forest, in Parallel 2017, C-Art Centre, Chongqing, China
Forest, in Syngenta Photography Award, Somerset House, London, UK
Forest, in Syngenta Photography Award, Saraceni House, Bologna, Italy
Mother River, in Kaunas Photo 2017, Lithuania
2016 Mother River, in Dubai Photo Exhibition Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Mother River, in Immeasurable: Three Shadows Photography Annual Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing and Xiamen, China
Mother River, in Pondyphoto 2016 Pondicherry, India
2014 Yuán, in Beyond Camera, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
Yán, in Flow- British and Chinese Landscape Artists, Xu Space, Chongqing, China
Yuán, in Frames Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts, UK
2013 Forest, in Renaissance Photography Prize, The Wapping Project Bankside, London, UK
Forest, in Curve-CENTER Awards Exhibition, CENTER Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Forest, in Polyphony Open-June Youth Artists Annual Exhibition, Chongqing, China
2012 Forest, in Terra Cognita, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Holland
2010 China: Journey to the East, York Art Gallery, UK
2007 Cherish: Chinese Families in Britain, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK