Clare Yow 邱文贤 is a Chinese-Canadian visual artist working primarily in photography with documentary as its basis. Her practice is concerned with the politics of identity, community, and labour through a communion with a history of place. As a first generation immigrant, a settler, daughter, and mother, Clare’s work takes on various forms of making — all in service of rootedness, rest, nonviolence, and liberation for anybody and everybody. Her studio is based in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown where she also initiated United Aunties Arts Association, an extension of her community-based work, focused on collaboration and solidarity.
Born and raised in Singapore as well as in the Toronto area, Clare lives, works, and parents on the unceded, ancestral and stolen homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and səlilwətaɬ, so-called Vancouver, since 2008. She holds an MFA in Visual Art (University of British Columbia) and an Honours BFA in Photography Studies (formerly Ryerson University). Clare has exhibited throughout Canada — including at the Surrey Art Gallery, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Two Rivers Gallery, The Works Art and Design Festival, and The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. ( clareyow.com + @studioclareyow )
Clare Yow is a participating artist in a series of RML publications expected to be completed in 2024.
RML Book by Clare Yow