本名彭撼，1983年出生于中国湖北，现生活工作于北京。2003年考入中央美术学院国画系，就读大学时成为星空间画廊签约艺术家。烟囱的创作的方式很多样，漫画，架上绘画，拼贴，缝纫。烟囱被认为是表现“素人风格”的代表人物之一，“素人风格”是近年来当代艺术流行的一种追求生涩、稚拙、朴素、原始生命力的创作风格。
烟囱通过不停地转变创作材料或者创作方式来创造出更新的作品。用笔画漫画、画刀画丙烯；到剪纸拼贴、缝纫；再重新回归漫画。不断地调整自己的状态，以此寻求并享受这样一种失控感，避免惯性创作产出“旧”东西。
烟囱的作品往往以他自己为主角，并将现实生活与杜撰的空想巧妙结合，以平面化的漫画形式将现实感弱化，还原想象和意义的价值。除了烟囱本人，他也将爱人尚尚、猫咪以及老板等身边的人和事，作为自己漫画的素材画入其中。烟囱创作了诸如“树林”系列，“我与尚尚”系列，“我与猫”系列等漫画、架上画作品。烟囱通过各色形式描绘了他眼中的生活。
烟囱致力于加强漫画与当代艺术之间的紧密联系。他通过漫画和架上绘画结合等形式，希望颠覆观众对漫画的认识。“我就是想让他们知道当代艺术这个社区之中不能没有漫画这一项，因为我一直认为漫画就是当代艺术的一部分，只是大家的观看习惯还是没有改变。”
Original name is Peng Han, he was born in 1983 in Hubei, China, and now lives and works in Beijing. He became a contracted artist of Star Gallery when he studied in university. Various forms and mediums are adopted by Yan Cong including comics, easel painting, collage and sewing. He is considered as one of the representatives of the "plain style", which is emergency style in contemporary art recently that pursues original, naive, simple and primitive vitality.
Yan Cong produced more works by constinousely exploring possibilties of vairous mediums and methods. Employing brushes to paint comics and palette knife to apply acrylic; from paper cuttings collage and sewing to comics again, he is keeping justfying himself to explore and enjoy a sense of loss of control,try to avoid inertia to produce "old" things.
Yan Cong often takes himself as the protagonist of his works and combine real life with fictional fantasy, weakening the sense of reality and restoring imaginations and meanings of graphic cartoons. He also loves recording sourroundings such as his partner Shang Shang, cats and boss in his cartoons. He has worked on easel paintings such as "Forest" series, "I and Shang Shang" series, and "I and Cat" series. Yan Cong depicts life in his eyes through various forms.
Yan Cong is committed to strengthen the relationship between comics and contemporary art. He hopes to subvert the audiences’ understandings of comics through the combination of comics and easel painting. "I just want them to know that comics can't be absent from the community of contemporary art, because I always think that comics are a part of contemporary art, even though everyone's watching habits have not changed."
