Yu-Wen Wu

Born in Taiwan, Yu-Wen Wu’s subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her artwork. The projects she pursues operate at the crossroads of art, science, politics and cultural issues. The form the artworks take includes site-specific video installations, large-scale drawings, community engaged practices and public art. Her work can be broadly categorized into three areas: the current global migration crises, environmental displacement and the immigration experience. 

Her most recent solo exhibitions include With/Out Water, Boston, High-Water Mark, Portsmouth and Leavings/Belongings, Boston. Wu was the 2018-2019 Artist-in Residence at the Pao Arts Center Boston, engaging community in the durational project Leavings/Belongings. This project brings together small groups of refugees, immigrants, and the public to make symbolic bundles that tell what was brought and what was left behind in their migration. Bridging experiences, generations, and ethnicities, the residency culminated in a transmedial installation of material artifacts and collected stories. Wu’s work has been exhibited at the Weisman Art Museum, Perlman Art Museum, MN and ICA MECA, ME among others.

She is a graduate of Brown University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. For the Accelerator Program, Yu-Wen looks forward to expanding current indoor installation ideas to the outdoors and continue building community on many different levels.