Si Yi Shen

Si Yi Shen is an emerging artist based in Magandjin (Brisbane), working across digital collage, moving image, projection, and installation. Her practice explores themes of placemaking, identity, and belonging through digital assemblage, where fragments of images, texts, emojis, and archival materials converge into interconnected visual worlds. 

Recent projects include Mountain No Mountain (Redland Gallery, 2026), Shifting Perspectives (Bathurst Regional Gallery, 2025), Free Water (Worlding, Platform Arts Geelong, 2024), Imagining Terrains (Broken Hill City Gallery, 2023), and screened at the Australian National Maritime Museum (Cut Out Festival, Mexico 2026; New Beginnings Festival 2024; Sydney Festival 2024). Other works include Auspicious Beasts AR Experience (EDGE Sydenham, 2023), Digital Twin (Culture Vault at Piermarq, 2023), In the Moment (Boronia Grove Community Centre, 2021), Sending You Love (Casula Powerhouse, 2021), and Living (Storybox Darling Harbour / Parramatta, 2021). Earlier works include The Eclipse (Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial, 2019) and West Projections Festival 2019. Shen has been recognised as a winner of the Queensland XR Festival (Digital Art category), and as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Awards (2025), the Lumen Prize (2024), the Australian XR Festival (2023), and the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2023, 2025).