Who We Are

Founded in 2021, Tangent Collective is a nomadic artists and curators collective maneuvering in between Canada, China and the US. We incubate cross-disciplinary dialogues and research-based practice centring on issues of decolonization, postcolonialism, global infrastructure, and environmental discourse, fostering regional exchange and dialogues between artists within and outside of the greater Chinese diaspora.

  • Founder & Co-Director

    Yantong is a cultural organizer, researcher, artist, and curator based in Toronto, Canada. He works at the intersection of global infrastructure, geopolitics, regional folklore and decolonization.

  • Founder & Co-Director

    Brubey is an artist, graphic designer, and educator. Her work is a mediation on memory, migration and familial ties as shaped through a transcultural feminist lens. Bridging her interests in linguistics, poetry and architectural drawing, her practice seeks to delineate how cultural and personal identities are shaped

  • Artist & Curator

    Beichen is an artist. Focused on unveiling hidden histories through photography’s narrative structures, his artistic works often manifest in the form of photographs, essay films, mixed media installations and institutional research.

  • Artist & Curator

    Shengxu is a Chinese Korean artist and curator. His current works focus on how malleable ethnic identities respond to the transnational reality, which is syncretized and elaborated from more than one cultural heritage, while simultaneously calling into question the concept of ‘ethnic imaginary coherence’

  • Artist & Curator

    Shanshan is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in mixed media and installation arts. Fascinated by how different elements can combine to form new narratives, she pushes the boundaries of artistic mediums. Always one to think outside the box, her installations invite viewers to engage their senses beyond traditional works.

  • Curator & Artist

    Chunqing is a curator, artist, and educator based in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. Her curatorial practice focuses on community engagement and site-specificity with consideration to social issues.