Xinyan Yu is an artist based in Jersey City, New Jersey, working primarily in oil painting. Her work is rooted in female life experience, reflecting on the cycles of life—its fragility, resilience, and transformative power. She explores the relationship between the body, memory, and change, drawing inspiration from nature, feminine energy, and bodily intuition. Through organic forms and fluid gestures, Yu creates inner landscapes shaped by shifting emotional states. She highlights the evolving dialogue between inner emotional worlds and the external environment, revealing the rhythms of life and the invisible forces that sustain it.

Her paintings are known for their transparent textures and bold use of color, which together evoke a luminous, mysterious atmosphere. By intertwining biomorphic shapes with dreamlike, ethereal environments, she transmutes impassioned energy into visual form, blurring the line between abstraction and emotion, body and spirit.