Chen Yutong
Painter
Born in 1995
Young Talent
Shortlisted for an Award

“Every city has a heartbeat — I paint the silence between its beats.”
Chen Yutong is a Chinese contemporary painter known for her evocative depictions of urban landscapes that blend realism with quiet emotion.
Born in Shanghai, she grew up amidst the rhythm of rapid transformation — glass towers rising beside historic lanes, neon reflections dancing on rain-soaked streets. Her art captures these contrasts: the dialogue between modern architecture and human memory, between movement and stillness.
Through layered textures and nuanced tones, Chen Yutong paints the soul of the city — not as chaos, but as living poetry shaped by light, distance, and time.
For Chen Yutong, urban landscape art is not just about depicting structures — it’s about capturing atmosphere, rhythm, and emotion.
She believes that a city is a mirror of its people: ever-changing, full of longing, solitude, and connection.
Her work transforms concrete and steel into symbols of human experience, where reflections, shadows, and lights become metaphors for memory and time.
Through her brush, the city ceases to be a place — it becomes a feeling.
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