Farren Fei Yuan is a critic, writer, and curator based in New York. She writes broadly on modern and contemporary art, with particular interests in feminist art history, the intersections of literary and visual arts, and the legacy of post-medium discourse.

Her writing appears in Ursula, Woman’s Art Journal, Burlington Contemporary, The Brooklyn Rail, and Sequitur.

She has contributed to editorial and curatorial projects at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Red Brick Art Museum, and Asia Society Hong Kong.

As a MODA Curates fellow at Columbia University (2023–24), she curated Rosemary Mayer: “Words in Art are Signs Returned” at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, reconsidering Mayer’s practice through her involvement in conceptual art and alternative publications.

She received her B.A. in History of Art from the University of Oxford and her M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University.