YiMiao Shih (b. 1985, Taiwan) is a London-based artist working across embroidery, drawing, and sculptural installation. She approaches stitching as an expanded form of drawing: thread functions as line, tension as pressure, and repetition as mark-making. Using a domestic sewing machine and hand-stitching, she produces what she describes as "embroidery-drawing" — the imitation of hand-drawn movement with stitched marks — a material language shaped through embodied movement and resistance.

Her work often centres on a recurring rabbit-like motif that navigates lived experience on her behalf. Through this motif she explores a sense of comfort and the construction of home, reflecting her position between cultural contexts as a Taiwanese artist based in the UK. While visually playful, these narratives engage broader questions of identity, access, and emotional structures embedded in everyday environments.

YiMiao's recent research has centred on how spaces are accessed, owned, or imagined, and how comfort is constructed within constraint. These questions have gradually shifted from narrative depiction toward material enquiry. Recent projects and residencies have drawn her focus toward the relationship between stitched images and supporting structures: structure is no longer a neutral support, but an active, conceptual presence.

Group shows include: Osh Gallery London by Pentagram(2026); IMT Gallery (2026); Somerset House with Candida Stevens Gallery (2025); Paul Smith Albemarle Gallery (2024); Koppel X Gallery (2023); London Transport Museum (2019); Seventeen Gallery (2019); 250th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2018); CICA Museum, Korea (2018); Street Road Artists Space, USA (2017); Saatchi Gallery, London (2016).