Sara Chan Yan was born in Lisbon in 1982. She currently works in Lisbon and Pico. She is represented by Madragoa gallery. She graduated in Architecture in 2006 from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon. Later, in 2010, she attended the Regular Drawing Course at Ar.Co and the Advanced Fine Arts Course at Ar.Co in 2013. She also participated in a Sound Art Workshop in 2014. In 2015, she studied Acoustics Fundamentals for Music Practice and Performance at FCSH Nova Lisbon University. In 2013, she was a fellow of the Carmona e Costa Foundation in Lisbon. She has been exhibiting since 2009, but her first solo exhibition, "Listening to Silence, Speaking Whole and Precise," took place in 2016 at Madragoa Gallery in Lisbon. Throughout her career, she has exhibited in galleries and cultural spaces such as FID Foire Internationale du Dessin, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Cultura & Culturas, Château Padiès in Lempaut, Festival Interferências, Espaços do Desenho in Lisbon, Lisbon City Museum, Casa da Música in Porto, Fundación Botín, Villa Iris in Santander, Open Sessions at The Drawing Center in New York, Atelier BemPostinha in Lisbon, Cordoaria Nacional in Lisbon, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida in Évora, and Colégio das Artes at the University of Coimbra. She has also worked in other artistic areas, including as a Coordinator and Animator at the "Pé-de-Vento" Art Education Center in Vale Amoreira, Moita City Council (2007 and 2008), as an Assistant to the visual artist Rui Moreira at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger (between 2008 and 2011), and as a Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon. In 2015, she was awarded the Visual Arts Prize for Young Creators by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.