Born in 1981 in Changsha, Huang Jiayan graduated from the Fourth Studio of the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Huang's recent solo exhibitions include Tactile Paving (White Book Space, Beijing, 2025), Memento (traverse, Beijing, 2024), Before the Flood (Mroom, Beijing, 2024), Hidden (Shekou Gallery, Shenzhen, 2021), Shifting (Shuimu Post Gallery of Modern Art, Beijing, 2020), Converting Landscape (Mocube Gallery, Beijing, 2019), and Blind * Path ("We say there should be space, and there comes space" Gallery, Beijing, 2014). Selected group exhibitions include Stroll--From Community to Nature (Cloud Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2021), An Archive--Seven Trails, Taikang Space Art Documents (Taikang Space, Beijing, 2020), Vision Code - The 5th German and Chinese Young Artists Development Fund Joint Exhibition (Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin, 2020), GASTARBEITER (RAUM_fuer_RAUM, Düsseldorf, 2018), Tourists (Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation, Schöppingen, 2018), and Drawing (Alternative Culture Making Gallery, Shenzhen, 2017).