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YiMiaoShih in a bright fruit patterned dress in front of an illustration

YiMiao Shih

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YiMiao is a practising visual artist. Her work is concerned with expanded drawing/illustration practice through material exploration.

YiMiao is an associate lecturer on the MA Visual Communication course at the RCA, and a Lecturer on the MA Illustration and Visual Media course at London College of Communication, UAL. She is currently part of the Barbican Art Trust Group Studio members and is one of the Advisors to Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.

YiMiao’s work brings a sharp wit and keen eye for contemporary cultural and social issues to her creative process. She works across drawing, embroidery, wood, and metal. YiMiao describes the core of her practice as contemporary ‘embroidery- drawing’: she works innovatively with a domestic sewing machine and hand sewing and mimic the hand-drawn movement with stitched marks.

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Expertise

Gallery

  • Artwork ‘Bathtub’, YiMiaoShih

    Artwork ‘Bathtub’, shown in solo show Pocket Fever, Wilton Way Gallery, London, 2025

  • Artwork ‘In Your Shell’, YiMiaoShih

    Artwork ‘In Your Shell’, shown in Collect Art Fair represented by Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London, 2025

  • Exhibition photo of solo show ‘Surface Value’, YiMiaoShih

    Exhibition photo of solo show ‘Surface Value’ at 1B Window Gallery, London, 2024

  • Embroidery-drawing: Passing Den Haag, YiMiaoShih

    Embroidery-drawing: Passing Den Haag, 2023

  • Photo of the entrance to solo exhibition ‘YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit’,

    Photo of the entrance to solo exhibition ‘YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit’, House of Illustration (now Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration), London, 2019

  • The Epic: The Last Battle of Rabbrexit, YiMiaoShih

    Details of ‘The Epic: The Last Battle of Rabbrexit’, featured in solo show at House of Illustration (now Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration), London, 2019

More information

(2025) YiMiao Shih: Pocket Fever, Wilton Way Gallery, London

(2025) Collect 2025, Somerset House, London

(2024) YiMiao Shih: Surface Value, 1B Window Gallery, London

(2024) The Woman and The Moon, Paul Smith Albemarle Street Gallery, London

(2023) The TIDE, KOPPEL X Gallery, London

(2022) Artist Salon: YiMiao Shih and her curious subjects, Bloomsbury Gallery, London

(2019) YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit, House of illustration, London

(2019) Poster Prize, London Transport Museum, London

(2019) STRUCTURES FORM A FIELD ONCE A SINGLE LINE IS DRAWN EXPOSING FRAGMENTS, Seventeen Gallery, London

(2018) Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

(2017) Homma Meridian Stone Project, Street Road Artists Space, Pennsylvania, United States

(2016) Future Island. Saatchi Gallery, London

(2025-) Advisor, Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, London

(2024) Course Validation and Periodic Review Panel, BA Illustration course at City & Guilds of London Art School

(2023-25) Art Review Consultant, London Art Collective

(2022-24) Artistic Programme Advisory Panel, Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

External links

www.yimiaoshih.com