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Photographer·Visual Artist
Her practice focuses on individual experiences within contemporary social and cultural contexts, exploring identity, migration, and collective memory, with particular attention to Chinese youth and East Asian women in cross-cultural contexts. She examines the relationships between psychological, bodily, and inner experiences, as well as the possibilities of healing and self-awareness. Since 2009, she has been developing her ongoing personal project Give Me 1 Minute, documenting more than 100 Chinese individuals born between the 1980s and 2000s and living in major cities. Through intimate imagery and fleeting expressions, the project explores loneliness, desire, and identity in a rapidly changing era.
In 2015, her work appeared on the homepage of Vogue Italia’s PhotoVogue. In 2020, she was one of the finalists of the Three Shadows Photography Award and the Photo Open Up International Photography Festival in Italy, and won the Silver Award at
From 2021 to 2026, her work was shortlisted for the Paris ASVOFF and Lishui Photography Festival, and exhibited multiple times at PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai and Art021. Her work has been featured by Vogue Me, Chinese Photography, Shanghai Photography, F-Stop Magazine, Marie Claire NOW, Elle Decor, Ideal Home, WWD, Guyu Imaging, BIE, among others. Her work has also been collected by institutions including Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Direct Photography Art Space, and Supermedia Group.
In 2025, she launched the photography project Pink Fantasy in New York,
focusing on the gendered situations, identities, and subjectivities of East Asian women. The work was included in the photography book of the same name and has been exhibited internationally at venues and festivals including Chania International Photo Festival in Greece, Cambridge Photography Gallery in the UK, Chateau Gallery and SVA Gramercy Gallery at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Spectrum Chicago by A Space Gallery in Chicago, Deadbooks Gallery in Osaka, PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, and others.
她的作品关注当代社会文化中的个体经验、身份、迁徙与群体记忆，聚焦中国当代青年群体及跨文化语境中的东亚女性，并探索心理、身体与内在经验之间的关系，以及疗愈与自我觉察的可能性。自2009年以来，她持续进行的个人项目“给我一分钟”，记录了百余位出生于1980至2000年代、生活于大城市的中国青年个体，以私人影像及瞬时性表达探索时代语境下个体的孤独、欲望与身份意识。
2015年，欢岛的作品登上Vogue意大利PhotoVogue首页；2020年，她入围了三影堂摄影奖
2025年，她在纽约发起摄影项目“粉色幻想”，关注东亚女性性别处境、身份及主体性议题。相关作品收录于同名摄影书，并在国际范围内的多个展览场馆展出，包括希腊哈尼亚国际摄影节、英国剑桥摄影画廊、美国纽约视觉艺术学院SVA Gramercy Gallery及Chateau Gallery、芝加哥艺博会 Spectrum Chicago、A Space Gallery空格画廊、大阪Deadbooks Gallery、上海影像艺术博览会等。