1992年出生于黑龙江，成长在广东，目前常驻于上海与洛杉矶之间。她于2018年取得比利时安特卫普皇家美术学院绘画专业的硕士学位。
闫欣悦的作品关注着飞速发展的城市化下的人群和他们的状态。她习惯以戏剧化的形式来表达日常城市生活。闫欣悦的绘画里交织着不同的空间层次和力量，她无意将她的绘画置于明确的叙事里，而是邀请观者去解读，进入一个更开放的想象空间。闫欣悦坚持对绘画本身的可能性的探索，同时她的画面总以戏谑的态度使观者在严肃的当下现实中挣脱开来，在令人沉思的语境下寻找一丝玩趣。
Born in Heilongjiang in 1992, grew up in Guangdong, currently based between Shanghai and Los Angeles. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp (Belgium) with an MFA in painting in 2018.
Yan's work portrays the tension in everyday life in the context of rapid urban development. She manipulates objects and subjects into different painterly forms - reality and fantasy are mixed on the same canvas, and the dynamic and the tranquil are blended - revealing the conflict between being a part of society and being an individual. The irony and humor in her paintings invite viewers to escape the solemnity of reality and enter a universe of imagination and possibilities.
