Yang Bao
Biography Yang Bao
Yang Bao
(b. 1991) is a New York-based installation artist, pianist, and composer who works in sound sculpture, performance, video, and painting. Renowned for his large-scale stainless steel sound sculptures and Infinity Music compositions, Bao transforms landscapes and architectures into monumental super-instruments. His site-specific works harness time and chance to create evolving, multidimensional visual-soundscapes, reimagining sound as a tangible force that reshapes our perception of space and time. Through a minimalist approach, he visualizes sound as physical forms, creating an experiential synthesis of the arts.
His groundbreaking sound sculpture complex, HYPERSPACE, permanently collected and exhibited at The Donum Estate in California, stands among the world’s largest sculpture collections. This dynamic installation blends Infinity Music with natural elements such as wind, sunlight, and rain, merging sound and visuals into a fluid, living experience. He has been awarded the Maria Manetti Shrem Composer Prize, Forbes China’s Most Influential Young Artists, and Robb Report’s Young Artist of the Year. His artworks are in the permanent collection of the Long Museum and have been commissioned by DIOR, Louis XIII, and Devialet. Bao’s solo shows include: MADLANDS (Long Museum, Shanghai, 2024), Hear A Century Ahead (Former British Consulate, Shanghai, 2021), Late Night Savage (Cc Foundation, Shanghai, 2021).
A Juilliard and New England Conservatory-trained classical pianist, Bao studied under Wha-Kyung Byun and Bruce Brubaker and has performed with prestigious orchestras worldwide, merging classical mastery with his original compositions. He recently premiered his composition First Day on Mars: Piano Fantasie at Carnegie Hall in New York and his orchestral composition Sol: Piano Concerto at Festival Napa Valley in California. He also performed Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Maestro Long Yu and China Philharmonic Orchestra at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
