1987年生于江西宜春，2009年于中国美术学院新媒体系，获学士学位。2012年毕业于中国美术学院跨媒体艺术学院并获硕士学位。现生活工作于杭州。易连的创作包括影像、装置、摄影及声音等。通过调度灯光以减弱空间纵深感，易连的影像营造出一个既置身现实又抽离于现实的画面。影像里的演员和道具，不论是人或是动植物大多被剔除或赋予某种属性：社会的／欲望的／自然的，在艺术家制造的时空里进行无因果的运动。通过明暗和冷暖表达对关系的感知。

近期个展有：“易连-天堂电影院”，本来画廊，广州（2018）；“时间轴上空无一人”易连个展，望远镜艺术家工作室，北京（2016）；“畜牲-易连个展”，清影艺术空间，杭州（2015）。参加过的群展主要有：“禹歩”第12届上海双年展，PSA，上海（2018）；第62届奥博豪森国际短片电影节，奥博豪森，德国（2016）、“CHINA8——莱茵鲁尔中国当代艺术展”，马尔玻璃方雕塑博物馆，德国（2015）；“民间的力量”北京民生现代美术馆开馆展，北京民生现代美术馆，北京（2015）；第六届马德里新媒体艺术节，马德里（2014）；上海艺术影像展，上海展览中心，上海（2014）；“Reformation”白兔收藏展，白兔美术馆，悉尼（2014）；法国戛纳AVIFF艺术电影节，戛纳（2014）；第9-11届中国独立影像年度展（2012-2014）；上海西岸建筑与当代艺术双年展，上海（2013）；“重新发电”第9届上海双年展，PSA，上海（2012）。作品被澳大利亚白兔美术馆以及尧山当代艺术基金会等机构收藏。

Yi Lian

Born in 1987 in Yichun, Jiangxi, Graduated from the New Media Art Department of China Academy of Art in 2009 with a B.A, obtained M.A from the School of Intermedia Art of China Academy of Art in 2012, Currently lives and works in Hangzhou. Yi Lian specialized media art works including video, installation and photography works and so on. He is good at setting up a theater in the darkness by scheduling lightening to reduce the depth of the space, in which his images create an image which is both realistic and abstract. The figures in the image-human beings, plants or animals, are mostly removed or given certain attribute: social/desirable/natural. As a result, they are all involved in a causal movement in the time and space created by the artist. Yi Lian is good at building a theater in darkness and describing his perception towards relationships through atmosphere which is bright or dim, cool or warm.

His recent solo exhibitions include: “Yi Lian- Cinema Paradiso”, Bonacon Gallery, Guangzhou(2018); “The Desolate Timeline”: Yi Lian’s Solo Exhibition, Telescope Art Space, Beijing(2016); “DEMIBEAST”: YI Lian’s Solo Exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou. Group exhibitions include: “proregress”- 12th Shanghai Biennale, PSA, Shanghai(2018). The 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany(2016); “CHINA8 -- Contemporary art form China on the Rhine and Ruhr”, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany(2015); “The Civil Power” – Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Beijing(2015); Chinese Video Art In MADATAC 06, Spain, Madrid(2014); Photo Shanghai, The Exhibition Center of Shanghai, Shanghai(2014); AVIFF(Cannes International art Film Festival), Cannes, France(2014); “Reformation”, White Rabbit Collection Exhibition, White Rabbit Art Museum, Sydney, Australia(2014); The 9th-11th CIFF(China Independent Film Festival), China(2012-2014); “West Bound 2013” A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai(2013); “Reactivation”-9th Shanghai Biennale, PSA, Shanghai(2012). His works are collected by the Australian White Rabbit Art Museum and the Blue Mountain Contemporary Art Foundation.