Rin Wanchen Yu
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair x Emily Carr Award Recipient, 2026
Rin Wanchen Yu is an illustrator working with graphite, pencil and oil painting. Deeply inspired by narrative illustration and film concept art. Her artistic practice is characterized by dream-like storytelling, softness, and strangeness. Rooted in her youth and further shaped by her studies in illustration and storytelling in North America, her work explores themes of loneliness, loss, displacement, and a state of in-betweenness.