based in
Beijing & Berkeley
portfolio
Yiming Clara is interested in how forms of language—utterance, noise, color, gait, space—construct the fabric of our reality. Interrogating how modes of seeing and being are constructed and how their supposed solidity can be unsettled, she turns to construction materials and found objects, using sculpture and photography to render questions in material form. Propelled by a cross-continental upbringing and its constant reshaping of linguistic, moral, and emotional meaning, she seeks grounding beyond place and tongue, arriving at the only language that feels untethered: the sensory world.
Her work has been shown at Climate Control Gallery and FOG Fair (San Francisco); Upcoming shows include 500 Capp Street Foundation (San Francisco, 2026), Slash Art /Room/ (San Francisco, 2026), and Recology Artist in Residence (San Francisco, 2026). She runs the exhibition series 202019: Occasions.
On Objects and Questions
On Language