Yanti Peng, 彭妍缇, was born in Hainan and now lives and works on the Wangal/Gadigal Country. She is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography, film and digital technologies. By day, a gig economy worker, by night she also works.
She builds speculative worlds that decode the functions of power embedded in the everyday, navigating the labyrinth of truth and consciousness through humour, absurdism, and magical realism. She likens her interconnected practice and systems thinking to the body's fascial system.
The relationship between spectator and spectacle often resonates in her work. Informing the hybrid ecology she aims to draw out within our digital-physical sphere.
A finalist in the 2026 Churchie Emerging Art Prize, her exhibition history includes Firstdraft, Blindside Gallery, Cement Fondu and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Currently a resident at Alfred Street Studios, she has completed residencies at Organhaus, Peacock Gallery and Woollahra Gallery. Peng has received commissions from institutions including UNSW, Parramatta Artist Studios, Inner West Council, and West Space. Her animation, new.life (2026), premiered on NOWNESS Asia. She is currently the Digital Production Lead at Runway Journal.
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work and live. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to all First Nations people. This always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
She builds speculative worlds that decode the functions of power embedded in the everyday, navigating the labyrinth of truth and consciousness through humour, absurdism, and magical realism. She likens her interconnected practice and systems thinking to the body's fascial system.
The relationship between spectator and spectacle often resonates in her work. Informing the hybrid ecology she aims to draw out within our digital-physical sphere.
A finalist in the 2026 Churchie Emerging Art Prize, her exhibition history includes Firstdraft, Blindside Gallery, Cement Fondu and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Currently a resident at Alfred Street Studios, she has completed residencies at Organhaus, Peacock Gallery and Woollahra Gallery. Peng has received commissions from institutions including UNSW, Parramatta Artist Studios, Inner West Council, and West Space. Her animation, new.life (2026), premiered on NOWNESS Asia. She is currently the Digital Production Lead at Runway Journal.
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work and live. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to all First Nations people. This always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Email: yanti.peng21@gmail.com