MIRA YING
WORK

is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Rotterdam and Shanghai. Working across installation, film, and writing, she critically examines various forms of knowledge-making infrastructure, investigating the material, semiotic, and social systems through which ideology is shaped, circulated, or manipulated.



RECENT“Time, in a Volkstuin”, essay film in-progress presentation, NoR Festival, Rotterdam, NL, 28–30 Aug 2026

GROUP SHOWS Strange Characters as part of “bOre” exhibition, United Cowboys, Eindhoven, NL ⟶
2025

Rights of Passage(s) in DAE Graduation Show, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL ⟶
2025

Theatre of Internationalism, in exhibition “Essential Interest to Dutch Culture”, Kruisstraat 185, Eindhoven, NL ⟶
2025

The Feed Factor in “Soils” exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL ⟶
2024

The Prosthetic Memory screening at Melted Film Festival, Eindhoven, NL ⟶
2024

Deep Simulator art book in “Unknown Games” exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, CHN
2021

Collection of Research on Chinese Typography publication in “Radical Return” exhibition, Boston University Art Galleries, US ⟶
2021
TALKS “Autonomous Publishing: taking root on the move”, Pecha Kucha talk at Graphic Design Fair, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL, 2026

“Maintenance, Methods, Moves”, reading session with Landscape of Positions project, Founation We Are, Eindhoven, NL, 2026

“The Type: Evolving Typography Education in Chinese”, presentation at ATypI conference, Copenhagen, DK, 2025

“Design research and independent publishing, an alternative knowledge production”, talk at Common Imprint reading room, Berlin, DE
2024

“Why visual culture is a good
lens to observe your city”, TEDxChengdu, CHN
2020
PUBLICATIONST journal, iss.1–50 (The Type, 2018–2022); editorial director

Collection of Research on Chinese Typography (The Type, 2020); executive editor, co- author, producer

Uncovered Signs in Shanghai (The Type, 2020); executive editor, producer

EDUCATION
M.A. Information Design 
(cum laude, best thesis)
Design Academy Eindhoven, NL

B.A. Translation & Interpretation
Fudan University, Shanghai, CHN
            




mira.ying(at)gmail(dot)com
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Last update: Aug 2026