Yanbin Zhao

Zhao Yanbin (New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator whose practice engages labor, memory, language, and diaspora across temporal, spatial, and affective registers. Working with 16mm experimental film and installation, Zhao examines ruptures and entanglements among histories, geographies, and subjectivities, navigating the space between the visible and the ineffable, the translated and the untranslatable.

Zhao holds an MFA in Film from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has been presented at festivals including Image Forum Festival, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, as well as at institutions such as LUX, UCCA Edge, REDCAT, and Los Angeles Filmforum. In 2024, he received the LACE Lightning Fund for Emerging Artists and was selected for the Visual Studies Workshop residency in Rochester, New York.

He is the co-founder of 飞蚊 mosmote, a collective platform dedicated to independent, experimental, and critically engaged cinema through screenings, workshops, and publishing initiatives.