Yu-Wen Wu

Yu-Wen Wu is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Boston. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wu’s subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her artwork. Relocating to the United States at an early age, her experiences have shaped her work in areas of migration–examining issues of displacement, arrival, assimilation and the shape of identity in a new country. At the crossroads of art, science, politics and social issues, her wide range of projects include large-scale drawings, site-specific video installations, community engaged practices, and public art.

She has received many prominent public art commissions, including Lantern Stories (2020 and 2022) commissioned by the Greenway Conservancy, The Poetry of Reason at Tufts University, and a 2023 work made possible through Now + There and Boston’s Transformative Art Grant, on view at Boston City Hall. Wu is a current artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. She was a 2023 recipient of the James and Audrey Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and a 2021 recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Her work was recently on view at Taipei Dangdai and James Cohan Gallery, New York. Institutional collections include Boston Public Library, Harvard Art Museums, ICA/Boston, MIT List Visual Art Center, Princeton University Art Museum. Her shows have been featured and reviewed in New York Magazine, Boston Globe, Artnet News, BOMB Magazine, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others.

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