UPCOMING
Taipei Dangdai Art Fair
Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center
Taipei Taiwan
May 9-12
Mother Lode: Material and Memory,
James Cohan Gallery
48 & 52 Walker Street, Tribeca
June 20- July 26 2024
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Journeys
Collections Exhibition
Harvard Art Museum
Cambridge, MA
December 12, 2023-June 2, 2024
Yu-Wen Wu, Foster Prize Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Boston, MA
August 24, 2023 – January 24, 2024
The Celestial City: Newport and China exhibition
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI
September 1, 2023 – February 11, 2024
A More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time
Art in Embassies traveling exhibition
The Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece, May 24-30;
Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland June 28-July 29;
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., September 19-October 1.
We Belong
Boston City Hall
February – Spring 2023
Supported by Now + There and City of Boston Transformative Public Art Grant
The Poetry of Reason
Permanent wall sculpture at Joyce Cummings Center at Tufts University
Medford, MA
Opened August 2022
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2023
Dallas Art Fair
Presenting with Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Dallas, TX
April 20-23, 2023
Let Love Quiet Fear
Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Boston, MA
January 12 – February 12, 2023
2022
Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America
Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College
Queens, NY
September 28, 2022 – January 6, 2023
Hyperallergic: “Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures” by AX Mina, December 2022
Lantern Stories: San Francisco
Permanent public art installation on 600s block of Grant Avenue
San Francisco, CA
Opened October 2022
Lantern Stories: Boston 2022
Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
Boston, MA
August – November 16, 2022
We Belong
East Boston Social Centers
68 Central Square, Boston, MA 02128
June – November 2022
Now + There Public Art Accelerator Commission | Supported by City of Boston Transformative Public Art Grant
2022 Student Lending Art Program Exhibition
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
August 30 - September 18, 2022
Mapping and Connectivity: Works by Nathalie Miebach and Yu-Wen Wu
Dual exhibition at Broad Institute
Cambridge, MA
April 25 - June 24
Belonging: Asian / Asian American Voices at Smith
Nielson Library, Smith College
Northampton, MA
April 28 - June 30
Leavings/Belongings and Tell Me in the group exhibition “Forced to Flee”
Bedford Gallery at Lesher Center for the Arts
Walnut Creek, CA
February 26 - June 19
Independent Art Fair | Tribeca, NYC
Presented with Praise Shadows Art Gallery
May 5 – 8, 2022
New York Magazine (Vulture) – "Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the World" by Jerry Saltz, June 7, 2022
Artnet News – "Yu-Wen Wu Asked Google How to Walk From Boston to Taipei. She Spent the Next 10 Years Turning the Directions Into an Incredible Artwork” by Sarah Cascone, published May 6
ARTnews – “The Best Booths at Independent New York 2022, from Personal Abstraction to a Response to the Guston Controversy” by Maximilíano Durón, published May 5
Belonging
Kahn Liberal Arts Institute
Smith College
Northampton, MA
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Honored to have been the Artist In Residence with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College
Democracies Redux: Resumptions, Resilience, Reconciliation, and Restoration (2021-22)
Of Gravity and Light | Des Moines, IA
Video projections for Ballet Des Moines production of “Of Gravity and Light” by composer Beau Kenyon
April 22, 2022
2021
Internal Navigation | Boston, MA
Solo exhibition Praise Shadows Art Gallery
September 9 – October 10
Awarded Boston’s Transformative Public Art Grant
Awarded Best Artist by Best of Boston 2021
Awarded the 2021 Mass Cultural Fellowship in Sculpture/Installation/New Genre
Imagining Data, Museum of Craft and Design San Francisco, virtual group exhibition curated by Ginger Duggan and Judy Fox
January to April 2021
2021 Excited to be part of the 2020 Now+There Accelerator cohort! Public Artwork to be announced.
2020
Lantern Stories Boston
Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy at Chin Park, Boston MA
September to November 18th, 2020
LEAVINGS/BELONGINGS
DISPLACED: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee Crises
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
March 20-January 24 2021
BOSTON ART REVIEW: ISSUE 05
The Communal Intimacy of Public Art: In Conversation with Yu-Wen Wu
Summer 2020
ART on PAPER
Pier 36, Booth 5 New York, NY 10002
MARCH 5-8
CHARTING THE WORLD: Subjective Map Making
Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA 02108
January 30-February 27