Melanie Lixiyue Yan
Artist member since 2020
Toronto, Ontario
Lixiyue Yan, also known as Melanie Yan, is an emerging illustrator/artist based in Toronto. Melanie works primarily in digital illustration, sequential art, mixed media painting, and motion design. She pours her passion for storytelling into the corners and fibres of her artworks and enjoys having the viewers wondering "what's going on here?" Just like her favourite artist Yoshitomo Nara, Melanie works alone and gains inspirations and energies from it.
Inside the Studio
Q+A
Best season of the year in Toronto
Fall, and winter only when the wind doesn't hurt my face.
Favourite book
Recently it's Parade by Shuichi Yoshida.
What do you listen to when you work?
Usually new wave, recently been listening to shoegaze.
Favourite artist(s) right now
Nara Yoshitomo, Taiyou Matsumoto, Satoshi Kon
In a previous life I was (a) ...
Sad salesman who woke up to be a cockroach.
Your favourite spot in Toronto right now
My balcony.
Upcoming Exhibitions
2021-05-03
Accolades
2019
Press
2019
2019
2020
2020
2020
Education
2021
Social
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