Yang An graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Fiber Art Department of the China Academy of Art in 2022 and earned her master's degree from the same department in 2025.

In 2024, her artwork *Self-Radius* won the "Lin Fengmian Creation Silver Award." The same year, her pieces *Image 1* and *Image 2* were exhibited in *A Triple Dialogue of Images: Three Makes Company*, *Silk Nest—Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition*, and the China-Korea Young Artists Joint Exhibition—*Eye Contact*. She also participated in the 2024 Xiamen·Gulangyu Art College residency program *Set Sail! Voyage on the New Ship of Fools* with her work *Sail No. "111"*.

In 2023, her works *Nirvana* and *Goddess* were featured in the second Fiber Art Emerging Artists Exhibition, *Subversive Threads*. In 2021, she curated the *Weaving Existence—Border Wandering* group exhibition for young artists.

She is fascinated by the elasticity of textiles and often incorporates the "force" of woven materials to depict the states of the body and self in everyday life.