Kyle Yip

Kyle Yip (b. 1988, Scarborough, Canada) is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice merges visual art, electronic music, film, and haute couture fashion. Recognized for hypersurrealist creations emerging from dreams, Yip'...

Kyle Yip (b. 1988, Scarborough, Canada) is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice merges visual art, electronic music, film, and haute couture fashion. Recognized for hypersurrealist creations emerging from dreams, Yip's 'Dream Pieces' act as portals into conscious and subconscious realms, interweaving personal and collective cultural histories. Symbols, like the American flag, probe themes of nationalism, cultural symbolism, and identity. Yip's practice interrogates universal norms by exploring repetition and Western society's obsession with self-image, self-improvement, and social status. A JUNO Award-nominated artist, Yip studied animation at Sheridan College and sculpture at OCAD University. His works, exhibited in New York, London, South Korea, and Venice, invite reflexive engagement and challenge traditional boundaries between high and low art, abstraction and representation, and spiritual and commercial aspects. He received recognition from the Ontario Arts Council for Visual Culture 2022 and the Canada Council for the Arts for the Arte Laguna Prize 2023.