This is the last week to visit ‘Un Sospiro’, the first solo exhibition in London by Brooklyn-based artist Phyllis Yao (b. 1994). The exhibition is accompanied by a specially commissioned text by Jessica Wan and continues until this Saturday 20 December.
“Phyllis Yao paints in the register of a sigh — the quiet span between exhale and silence. ‘Un Sospiro’, the title of her exhibition, borrows from Hungarian composer Franz Liszt’s étude of the same name, meaning a sigh, and captures her painting’s peculiar rhythm: poised between gesture and stillness, presence and disappearance. Like a chord fading into air, Yao’s work inhabits that in-between space — a breath between worlds where emotion, recollection and paint itself dissolve into one another.” – Jessica Wan (@jesswan___ )
Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Friday, 11am - 6pm
Saturday, 12-5pm
Images: Installation view of ‘Phyllis Yao: Un Sospiro’ at Alice Amati, London | Photo Tom Carter
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Phyllis Yao’s solo exhibition ‘Un Sospiro’ continues in London until Saturday 20 December. Discover her work ‘Bedtime’, 2025 through the words of Jessica Wan.
‘In ‘Bedtime’ (2025), Yao captures her mother preparing for sleep in her apartment in China: a summer breeze stirs sheer curtains, the distant hum of the city filters in, and a baby resting in the middle of the bed. Walls and objects are suffused with warm burgundy tones to evoke a sense of safety and care. Here, the quotidian becomes emotional terrain: a moment of domestic ritual transforms into a meditation on memory, presence and affect.’
– Jessica Wan
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday, 11am - 6pm
Saturday 12-5pm and by appointment
Image: Phyllis Yao, ‘Bedtime’, 2025, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 91 x 178 cm | Ph. Tom Carter
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Thank you to all that joined us last night for the opening of 'Un Sospiro’, Phyllis Yao’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The show will remain on view until Saturday, 20 December.
Full documentation is now available on our website via the link in bio.
Image: Installation view of ‘Phyllis Yao: Un Sospiro’, 2025 at Alice Amati, London | ‘Winter’s First Snow’, 2025, Oil and acrylic on canvas
56 x 44 in | Photo Tom Carter
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Phyllis Yao’s solo exhibition ‘Un Sospiro’, will open next week with a private view at the gallery on Thursday 13 November, 6-8pm. The exhibition will be accompanied by a newly commissioned text by Jessica Wan @jesswan___
“In ‘Currently Trending’ (2025), a series of paintings centred on shoes and stencilled fashion motifs, black shoulder bags and boots rise against the forms of tree branches, their glossy surfaces colliding with gestural natural forms. These works explore consumer culture and gendered aspiration with a quiet irony: they are at once alluring and absurd, fetishised yet exposed, playful yet critically aware.“ - Jessica Wan
Opening Reception: Thursday 13 November, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: 14 November - 20 December, 2025
Image: Phyllis Yao, ‘Currently Trending’, 2025, Oil on canvas, 112 x 87 cm | Photo by Tom Carter
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We are excited to announce ‘Un Sospiro’, the first exhibition in the UK of New York based artist Phyllis Yao (b. 1994), accompanied by a specially commissioned text by independent curator and writer Jessica Wan. The show will open with a private view at the gallery on Thursday 13 November, 6–8pm.
Phyllis Yao’s practice is rooted in an ongoing inquiry into the complex sensations generated from everyday moments, bringing together experiences of intimacy, observation, and personal history, as sites for reflection and transformation. Her paintings emerge from close attention to the overlooked — the texture of seemingly insignificant objects, the rhythm of daily gestures, or the surprise of the first snow falling — and reimagine them as poetic, visual meditations on desire and wonder. Through this approach, Yao constructs an emotional vocabulary that is at once deeply personal and universally resonant.
Image: Phyllis Yao ‘Crying with My Student’, 2024, Oil on canvas, 142 x 122 cm | Phyllis Yao, ‘Artist Statement’, 2024, Oil on canvas, 38 x 32 in | Courtesy of the artist and MARCH gallery.
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Discover Phyllis Yao’s works ‘Lonely’ and ‘Self-Portrait as a Greek statue’ in the group show ‘Eyes open, I breathe again’ curated by Samuele Visentin (@samuelevisentin ), reopening on 27 August through to 6 September.
The Brooklyn-based artist’s wide-ranging imagery – primarily inspired by daily observations, explores contrasting feelings of paranoia, love, hope, loneliness, and the anxiety derived by living in an ever-shifting world. Yao engages with a variety of techniques and subjects, charging each painting of a unique spirit.
Images: Phyllis Yao, ‘Lonely’, 2024, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 106.5 x 137 cm | ‘Self portrait as a Greek statue’, 2024, Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 40.5 cm | Photo Tom Carter
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