Farren Fei Yuan is a curator, writer, artist, and researcher currently based in New York. Guided by her lived experiences and notions of memory, translation, identity, she looks critically at forms of representation and the generative spaces between media. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary practices, theories of the sign and photography as a way of thinking.

Farren was born in Beijing, China and grew up around the Cotswolds in England, UK. She holds a B.A. in History of Art from the University of Oxford and M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University.

Farren is the recipient of the 2023 MODA Curates Fellowship and the curator of Rosemary Mayer: “Words in Art are Signs Returned” at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York. She is a 2024 Cornell Image Text Workshop Resident. Her writings have been published in SEQUITUR Journal, MODA Critical Review, and Broad Street Humanities Review. She has contributed to curatorial projects at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Jeu de Paume, Paris, and Asia Society Hong Kong. Her writings have been highly commended by Girton College, University of Cambridge and Paul Mellon Center’s Write on Art Prize.