Yang Yang is part of the first generation of Chinese artists whose legacy, unlike that of their tutors, is not one of Maoist authoritarianism. Rather they have emerged under the influence of a China in the midst of one of its most rapid periods of growth and transformation. The West - its cultural and and economic influence characterized the youth of Yang Yang's contemporaries, and have resulted in a very different artistic style which reflects a new and much altered nation.
 
In 2006 Yang Yang made her debut on the western art market with a series of works entitled 'Dreaming in the Sublime'. I an series compromised of four works, Yang Yang explores the realms of fantasy through which our minds lead us and possibilities of both disaster and ecstasy that such a journey may ultimately end in.
 
Having studied at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chinas's foremost artistic academy, Yang Yang has been brought into direct contact with the leading painters of her day. Resident faculty include the artists Go Jin, Go Wei, He Sen and Zhong Biao. It is under the latter's direction that she has spent the last six years studying and painting. While the two artists are remarkably different in both style and in composition, the element of fantasy that is at play in their work unites these two dissimilar artists. The belief in finding a truth beneath masks is one of Zhong Biao's central themes - and has been wholeheartedly adopted by his young protege.