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. Arriving 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.

Wu recently exhibited Lantern Stories, an outdoor public artwork commissioned by the Greenway Conservancy for Chin Park in Boston’s Chinatown (2020). Her other large scale commissioned works include a 38’ sculptural drawing for the Chao Center at Harvard Business School, Cambridge MA and two multichannel video projections for the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN. Most recently, she received the inaugural Prilla Smith Brackett Award 2019 (Davis Museum, Wellesley MA), a national grant from the Union of Concerned Scientist, and the Brother Thomas Award. She was a fellow at Yaddo in 2018 and the 2018-2019 Artist-in Residence at the Pao Arts Center Boston.

Engaging the community of Chinatown, the durational project Leavings/Belongings at Pao had its first major iteration and another iteration of this project is currently exhibited at SITE Santa Fe, NM. She is a 2020 cohort in Boston’s Now and There Accelerator program.

Wu’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is in several private and public collections.