Kyle Yip | Multi-Disciplinary Hypersurrealist Artist & Designer

Kyle Yip is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist of mixed race whose thirty-year trajectory spans visual art, design, music, and film. His work is rooted in the mnemonic transcription of fully realized compositions perceived during dreams into coterminous incarnations—a process termed Hypersurrealism. This was formally recognized by the CICA Museum (Korea), where Yip exhibited two large-scale works and presented at the International Symposium for Visual Culture 2022. His contributions appeared in Brave New World: New Media Art 2023, supported by the Ontario Arts Council through a recommendation from the McMaster Museum of Art. By age five, Yip was privately trained by Walt Disney Studios via mailed VHS tapes. Sheridan College admitted him to its Animation program (2006), and he later studied sculpture and design at OCAD University (2013). He founded Savvy Records (2010) and was nominated for a JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year 2016 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for The Midas Touch. He hosted M E + A P H Y S I C A L (2020) as Discrete on Data Transmission Radio (UK). His film In My Room was shortlisted at the Kinsale Shark Awards alongside Prince and The Chemical Brothers, and selected at Cannes Independent Shorts and Best of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles 2021. Yip exhibited at Marco Polo’s Arsenale Nord for the Arte Laguna Prize (Venice) and held his inaugural solo exhibition, RENAISSANCE SHOW, at Collision Gallery (2023). He was inducted into the Arte Laguna Prize Hall of Fame and was one of two Canadians to exhibit at EKA·Tianwu in Shanghai for its Asia Premiere (2025). His cross-registered practice interrogates dichotomies between high and low art, abstract and representational, and spiritual and commercial semiotics.