Yuan Haiyu, born in Nanjing, China in 1996, received his BA in Fine Arts from Jiangnan University in 2018 and his MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2020. He now lives and works in Shenzhen, China. Rooted in autobiographical narrative and surrealist composition, Yuan Haiyu's paintings appropriate post-body imagery and reconstruct individual memory to examine and present the human condition within the context of the post-digital era.