Kyle Yip

Kyle Yip is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist of mixed race whose thirty-year trajectory traverses visual art, design, music, and film. Working under the self-defined rubric of Hypersurrealism, he mnemonically recovers fully realized compositions encountered during REM dream states through coterminous transcription, producing what has been termed “Dream Artifacts.” The CICA Museum (Korea) formally recognized this methodology through its exhibition and presentation at the International Symposium for Visual Culture 2022, where his work was later published in Brave New World: New Media Art 2023, supported by the Ontario Arts Council.

By age five, Walt Disney Studios privately trained him via mailed VHS tapes. Sheridan College admitted him to its Animation program (2006), and he later studied sculpture and design at OCAD University (2013). Working concurrently under the alias Discrete, he founded Savvy Records (2010), and The Midas Touch received a JUNO Award nomination for Electronic Album of the Year in 2016 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He hosted M E + A P H Y S I C A L (2020) on Data Transmission Radio (UK), and his film In My Room was shortlisted at the Kinsale Shark Awards alongside Prince and The Chemical Brothers. It received selections at Cannes Independent Shorts and Best of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles 2021.

He exhibited at Marco Polo’s Arsenale Nord for the Arte Laguna Prize (Venice) and held RENAISSANCE SHOW at Collision Gallery (2023). Arte Laguna inducted him into its Hall of Fame and selected him as one of two Canadians to exhibit at EKA·Tianwu in Shanghai (2025). His cross-registered practice operates across painting, sculpture, neon, moving image, and sound to interrogate dichotomies between high and low art, abstract and representational form, and spiritual and commercial semiotics.