Yinan Du
About
Yinan Du is an animation director, artist, and educator. She makes work exploring obscure bodily existence, translating the untranslatable (national tension, marginalized communities, education system), and folklores. Her films have screened at film festivals and prestigious institutions globally, including Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Shanghai Pride Festival, Points Gallery, Kun Chef Gallery, among others. She is a Barbara Hammer Queer Grant Finalist. Her work has been recognized by press outlets such as VoyageLA.
Yinan draws from folklores, mythology, and historical remnants to craft narratives that rethink the past and construct analogies for the present. Her style is fierce, bodily, visceral, and inherently sabotaging—a practice of rupture that resists containment.
She holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts, and a BFA from Duke University. Outside of teaching and filmmaking, she also offers animation mentorship independently, makes commissions and graffiti.
Contact Me
661-373-5882
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Education
Duke University
BFA in Media Arts, Art History
California Institute of the Arts
MFA in Experimental Animation
Film Award
2019 – Buried, official selection, Art Humanities Conference Student Film Festival, Kunshan
2019 – Confessions of Anthropocene-aholic, audience choice, Environmental Film Festival, Kunshan
2019 – Self Portraits of Gender, Second Prize, Shanghai Pride Film Festival, Shanghai
2020 – Truth Hurt, award of excellence, Zijin Animation Festival, Nanjing
2020 – Oe Hikari, official selection, Duke University Juried Student Film Festival, Durham
2021 – Little Blue Man, official selection, Jinan Animation Festival, Jinan
2022 - The Shower, Red Cat Gallery experimental animation screening, US
2025 - The Shower, Academy Museum, Experimental Animation Showcase, US
Exhibition
Group
2022 – Flux, Nasher Museum of Art, US
2022 – The Shower, Calarts Main Gallery, US
2021 –Hide and Seek, Duke Kunshan University, Shanghai
2021 –Transition/Transformation, Kun-chef Gallery, Kunshan
2021 – Myself and my frame, Wu’er Galley, Suzhou
2020 – Self Portraits of Gender, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan
Solo
2020 –Wolf is Coming, Locke Pub, Suzhou
2022 – Juxtaposition, Wu’er Gallery, Kunshan
2023 – The Shower, Calarts Main Gallery, US