Born in 1961, Taipei, Taiwan
Lives and works in London
Born to a Chinese-Russian father and a Chinese-German mother, Chiang Yomei studied traditional Chinese landscape painting with the contemporary master Hu Nian-Tzu, life drawing with Li Der, and watercolor with Wang Lan. After completing high school in Taiwan, Chiang started years of academic endeavor abroad, from studying art and literature at the Skidmore College in New York (1978 – 1980), to obtaining a bachelor of arts degree in the history and theory of art and English literature from the University of Kent in Canterbury (1981 – 1984), pursuing the history of Chinese painting and ceramics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (1985 – 1986), and completing a bachelor of fine art degree from the Winchester School of Art (1991 – 1994). In the early 1990's, she met the poet-painter-calligrapher Chu Ge, a prominent member of the pioneering Fifth Moon Group, who has had a lasting influence on her life and work.
In 1989 Chiang embarked upon an intensely creative journey producing paintings, drawings, collages, photography, installations, performances, artist's books, poetry and short stories. Along with Buddhist practice, her great love of music, philosophy, film and literature have become inextricably linked to her creative work. She creates an abstract narrative that unifies form and emptiness, reflecting a state of existence that embraces both birth and death, without beginning or end.
Chiang has exhibited internationally, including Where I Rest My Heart, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2025); Without Beginning or End, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2022); Doors of Perception, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2018); Chiang Yomei: Other Realms, Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong (2016); and The Hidden Heart, Gallery Elena Shchukina, London, U.K. (2015). Her works are housed in private and public collections across Europe and Asia.