Scarlett Yang is an artist whose practice exists at the intersection of ecological narrative, material intelligence, and technological speculation. Educated in both art and engineering at Central Saint Martins, the Royal College of Art, and Imperial College London, she brings a hybrid perspective to her practice.

Working across sculpture, installation, and time-based media, Yang investigates the poetics of transformation—how matter, identity, and systems are shaped by environmental conditions and digital generative processes. Her research-led approach explores themes of entropy, mutation, and adaptation.

Yang is also the director of MTEX, a design consulting studio focused on emerging innovations.

She has received multiple awards, including the LVMH Green Trail Award and Rolls Royce MUSE Art Program. Exhibitions include the V&A Museum, Christie’s, Somerset House, Center for Heritage, Arts and Textiles, and the London Design Biennale.

CV for Scarlett Yang’s Art Practice
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Selected Exhibitions:
2024 Factory of Tomorrow, Centre of Heritage, Arts and Textiles, Hong Kong
2023 [solo] Beyond Nature: Composition Craft Series, Somerset House, London, UK
2023 History in the Making,Compton Verney Gallery, UK
2023 Fashion Fiction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2023 Christie’s Lates, Christie’s London, UK
2022 Spirit of Ecstasy Challenge, Muse - Rolls Royce Art Programme, London, UK
2022 Plastic Crush, Topenmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Screenwear, Design Museum Den Bosch, NL
2021 How to Dress Yourself Digitally: Scarlett Yang, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
2021 Design In the Age of Crisis, London Design Biennale, UK
2021 Materia Gris – New Materials for the Post-Fossil Era, Centro Centro, Spain
2020 Alternative Futures, Kyoto D-Lab Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2019 2.5 DIMENSION, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo, Japan
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Honours:
2022 Spirit of Ecstasy Challenge winner, Muse - Rolls Royce Art Programme
2021 UNESCO Create COP 26 finalist, Art Partner
2021 United Nation COP 26 Climate Conference delegate
2021 YouFab Global Creative Award winner
2020 LVMH Maison/0 Green Trail Prize winner
2020 The Mills Sustainability Prize winner
2020 SHOWstudio Class of 2020 winner
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Residency and Talks:
2023 Opening Panel, Fotografiska, Berlin
2022 Vogue Sustainability Conference, Poland
2020 Screenwalk, Photographer’s Gallery x Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2019 Somerset House Studios London UK
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SELECTED ARCHIVED WORKS

Climate Data Live simulations, Interactive audiovisual experience installation
Size Variable
Exhibited at: Christie’s Lates, London
Sound in collaboration with: Dimitris Menexopoulo
Director of Photography: Simon Van Parijs

Commissioned by: Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Biomaterials shells, electronic robotics with 3D printing capabilities
150 mm *130 mm * 80mm
12 editions
Inspired by garment production's weaving and construction processes, Recursive Materiality instrumental-ize the role of responsive fabrication as a lens to materialise human-machine interactions.
Building on the Studio’s long term research work on biomaterials, this work investigates on the future of decision-making processes within a hyper-generative system.

“From physical to digital, material to immaterial.”
Laboratory experimentation-led project which resulted in the creation of a glass-like garment made from algae extract and silk cocoon bio waste. The garment's sensitivity to its environment and ability to biodegrade highlights the study’s key focus on sustainability.
The project relied on 3D technologies to generate, predict and fabricate models of the design object, serving to consciously minimise waste - by contrast to the unsustainable nature of the fashion sector.
Supported by: TANGO OPEN, Kyoto, Japan; Kyoto Design Lab