Yan Wang Preston is a British-Chinese artist based in West Yorkshire, UK. Born in Henan Province in central China, Preston entered the prestigious Shanghai Medical University to study Clinical Medicine in 1994 and was subsequently qualified as an anaesthetist in China. In 2005 Preston moved to England with her husband. Since then she decided to pursue a new life as a photographer, and has since completed a MA in Visual Arts at Bradford College. She is now completing a PhD in Photography with Plymouth University.
Preston’s artistic career has been fruitful in the last eight years. Her work has been shown in national and international venues such as the National Portrait Gallery in London (2006), the York Art Gallery (2010), the Noorderlicht Photography Festival in the Netherlands (2012), the CENTER Photography Festival in New Mexico, the USA (2013) and the 501 Artspace in Chongqing, China (2013). She has won a number of awards such as the Third Prize, Curator’s Choice Awards by CENTER in Santa Fe, USA (2013). Since 2010, Preston is completing her long-term project on the Yangtze River in China. Details of the project can be found on her website.
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