Cyan Qin (she/her, b.1996) is an artist living and working in New York City.

Qin keeps her visual verse of everyday aesthetics primarily through photography. Her practices explore intimacy, tenderness, and ephemerality through a feminine lens. For Qin, photography represents an alternative emotional state, an ambiguous space that blurs the boundaries between imagination and reality, fiction and truth, time and space, memory and forgetting, the personal and the universal. 

Qin aims to challenge the dominant, objectifying ways of human seeing. Through her photographs, she seeks to transform the act of seeing into intimate sharing, a visceral experience where focus gently slips away.

When Qin is not taking photos, she works in education, trying to create engaging and inclusive learning experiences for learners across diverse social, cultural, and technological contexts.