CURRICULUM VITAE

Born Taipei, Taiwan
Lives and works in Boston, MA

EDUCATION
School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Brown University, Providence, RI (B.Sc)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: (Solo Exhibitions in Bold)
2024 Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Taipei Taiwan May 9-12
2023 Walking to Taipei, Journeys, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, Dec 12, 2023-June 2, 2024
2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, MA,
August 24, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
2023 Special Commission for The Celestial City: Newport and China, Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI, Sept 1, 2023 – Feb 11, 2024.
2023 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 19-29
2023 Dallas Art Fair with Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, April 20-23.
2023 We Belong, light-based public art installation, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA, February 7 – TBA.
2023 Let Love Quiet Fear, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Brookline, MA, January 23 – February 12.
2022 Lantern Stories: San Francisco, permanent public art installation, 600 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, opened October 3 | Solo
Exhibition
2022 Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY, Sept 28, 2022 – Jan 6, 2023
2022 Lantern Stories: Boston, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston, MA, Sept 11 – November 15 | Solo Exhibition
2022 Student Lending Art Program Exhibition, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, August 30 – September 18
2022 The Poetry of Reason, permanent wall sculpture, Tufts University Joyce Cummings Center, Medford, MA, August | Solo Exhibition
2022 We Belong, light-based public art installation commissioned by Now + There, East Boston Social Centers, Boston, MA, June –
November | Solo Exhibition
2022 Independent Art Fair with Praise Shadows Art Gallery, New York, NY, May 5–8
2022 Mapping and Connectivity: Works by Nathalie Miebach and Yu-Wen Wu, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, April 25 - June 24
2022 Belonging: Asian / Asian American Voices at Smith, Nielsen Library, Smith College, Northampton, MA, April 28–August 30 | Solo
Exhibition
2022 Of Gravity and Light, Ballet Des Moines, Des Moines, IA, April 22
2022 Forced to Flee, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, February 26–June 19
2021 Internal Navigation, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Brookline, MA Sept 9–October 10 | Solo Exhibition
2021 Imagining Data, Museum of Craft and Design San Francisco, 249 A Street Boston, MA 02210 Virtual exhibition curated by Curators
Squared, February 2021
2020 Lantern Stories, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, September 11 to November 19 | Solo Exhibition
2020 Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront the Refugee Crisis, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. February 23, 2020–January 24, 2021
2020 Charting the World, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston MA, January 30-February 28
2019 Together Apart, Bienalsur, Center for Border Studies, Cucuta Colombia September 28—November 16
2019 Leavings/Belongings for Foreign Born, Boston Based, Immigrant Led Hubweek, Boston MA October 1-3
2019 Leavings/Belongings, Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany Str, Boston MA, May 23-August 23 | Solo Exhibition
2019 High Water Mark, 3S Gallery Portsmouth NH curated by Kristina Durocher April 9-May 26 | Solo exhibition
2019 The Moon: Eternal Pearl, Concord Art Center, Lexington MA March 29-May 1
2018 Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks, and Pathways, ICA MECA, Portland ME October 4-December 14
2018 WITH/OUT WATER, 5 channel outdoor video installation, One Greenway, Boston MA September 29 Solo Exhibition
2018 Resistant Currents, Mills Gallery, Boston MA July 28-October 14
2018 Beyond Borders: Stories of Immigration, Santa Clara University, Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building Gallery Jan 8-April 7
2017 Tiempos Migratorios at the SALASAB, Bogotá, Colombia
2017 Boston Hubweek, White Noise, Projection onto facade of Boston City Hall, October 12-14
2017 Violence Transformed; Slater Gallery, Tufts University, Medford MA September 2017
2017 Observations (4 video installations), Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA January 30- March 30 (Solo Exhibition)
2017 Landscapes, Micromuseum, Yesultong, South Korea February 17 to June 17
2016 Jolt: Guns, Race, Immigration, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College Boston MA September 8-October 6
2016 Terrain, commissioned aluminum wall drawing, Chao Center, Harvard Business School, Cambridge MA
2016 Poem, commissioned public video installation, Quincy MA
2016 Crossings in collaboration with Harriet Bart, Perlman Art Museum, Carleton College, Northfield MN April 1–May 1
2016 Passages: Walking in Contemporary Art, Perlman Museum, Carleton College, Northfield MN April 1–June 10 2016 curated by Christina
Chang
2016 Clouds,Temporarily Visible, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN January 29-May 22
2015 The Accumulation of Dreams, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA September 11-October 13 (solo exhibition)
2015 Proximities, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA September 23-October 30 (solo exhibition)
2015 Forget Me Not, Gallery 1st.iKon, Haeundae-gu, Busan Korea July/August 249 A Street Boston, MA 02210
2015 Random Walks and Chance Encounters,Minnesota Museum of American Art,St. Paul MN MMAA Fellowship and Exhibition in
collaboration with artist Harriet Bart March/April
2015 Belonging, The Wing Luke Museum, Seattle WA
2014 Selections, Levine Works on Paper Gallery, Davis Art Museum, Wellesley MA
2014 Drawn to Water, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Fort Point, Boston, MA
2013 Site Lines, in collaboration with Harriet Bart, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, NY
2013 Summer Group Show: Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
2013 Directed: The Intersection of Book, Film and Visual Narrative, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN Perlman Museum,
Carleton College, Northfield MN
2013 Migration—On Yellow Brick Road, New Gallery Concert, Boston MA May 15
2012 Migration, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2012 Convergence, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT (solo exhibition)
2011 The Poetry of Translations, Haslla Art Museum, Gangneun, South Korea (solo exhibition)
2011 Listen, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo exhibition)
2009 Self-Similar, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
2009 Suspended, a song cycle, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA (solo exhibition)
2008 Concerto, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg MA (solo exhibition)
2008 Internal Navigations, Miller Block Gallery, Boston MA (solo exhibition)
2004 Unfolding Folio, Mayorʼs Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
2004 Folio, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
1999 Water Writings, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
1997 Liquid Notes, Regina A Quick Gallery, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY (solo exhibition)
1996 Poems, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
1996 Two Visions/Two Voices, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
1994 Ten Artists/ Ten Visions: 1994, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1990 Paintings 1990, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
1988 Traveling Scholars Exhibition, Carter Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2024 Foster Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston MA
2021 City of Boston Transformative Public Art Grant
2021 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Sculpture/Installation/New Genres
2021 Best of Boston: Best Artist of 2021, Boston Magazine
2020/2021 Now + There Accelerator Cohort
2019/2020 Greenway Conservancy Light-based Work, Chin Park, Boston MA
2019 Inaugural Prilla Smith Brackett Award
2018-2019 Artist in Residence Pao Art Center, Boston MA
2018 Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA, Washington DC, Oakland CA
2018 Artist Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY 249 A Street, Boston, MA 02210
2017 Brother Thomas Award, Boston Foundation, Boston MA
2017 Artist Research Fellowship, Orvietto Italy
2014 Artist Residency, Schloss Pluschow, Germany
2011 Artist Residency, Haslla Museum, South Korea
2011 Artist Residency, Auvillar France
2010 Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Painting
1998 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Painting
1989 NEFA Fellowship in Painting
1988 Traveling Scholars Award, School of Museum of Fine Art, Boston MA
1987 Boit Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2022 Lantern Stories: San Francisco, permanent light installation, 600 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, October 3 – permanent
2022 Lantern Stories: Boston, light installation, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston, MA, September 11 to November 15
2022 The Poetry of Reason, permanent wall sculpture, Tufts University Joyce Cummings Center, Medford, MA, August
2022 We Belong, LED light sculpture with by Now + There, East Boston Social Centers, Boston, MA, June – November
2020 Lantern Stories, light installation with Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy at Chin Park, Boston September to November
2018 With/Out Water, 5 channel video projection, Boston MA (September 29, 2018), Union of Concerned Scientists
2016 Terrain, 11’ x 38’, permanent wall relief sculpture commissioned for the Chao Center, Harvard Business School, Cambridge MA
2016 Bursts and Whispers, site-specific 4 channel projection, dimensions variable, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN
2016 Tempo Frieze, site-specific single channel projection, dimensions variable, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN
2016 Poem, 10’ HD video, 3 channel projection, commissioned work, West of Chestnut, Quincy MA
2010 Odyssey, 34” x 278”, painting commissioned for Board of Directors Room, Fidelity Investments, Boston MA

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: LECTURES/WEBINARS
2024 Yu-Wen Wu: The Culture Show, WGBH, January
2023 Studio Visit: Yu-Wen Wu | Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, September
2023 Artists Voice: James and Audrey Foster Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, October 17
2022 Mapping Stories, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, November 14
2022 SMFA Graduate Visiting Artist Talk, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, November 8
2021 Voice of an Artist, Wellesley College, November 17
2021 The Space Within: Private and Public Narratives, Smith College, November 11
2021 In Conversation with Professor Anne Anlin Cheng, Sept 28
2021 How Art Can Confront Anti-Asian Sentiments; Pao Arts Center and Liberty Mutual May 17, 249 A Street, Boston, MA 02210
2021 Core Two Storytime Series: Yu-Wen Wu, MIT Architecture April 6
2021 Through the Lens of Art: Building Bridges with Yu-Wen Wu, Weston Art and Innovation March 18
2021 Creativity at the Edge: Health, Music and Community; Harvard Arts Initiative Feb 25
2020 The Light of Lantern Stories: Conversation with Yu-Wen Wu and Cynthia Yee; Asian Studies and English Department, Northeastern
University (November 20)
2020 Lighting the Way: Exploring Lantern Stories in Boston’s Chinatown; Public Art Conversation with Lucas Cowan, Director and Curator
of Public Art of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy (October 29)
2020 A TALE OF THREE CHINATOWNS:KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE WITH ART: BOSTON, NYC, DC, 1882 Foundation (DC) and
Think!Chinatown (NY) October 18, 2020
2020 Lantern Stories: From Community to Creation; Public Art Conversation with the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy (July 20)
2019 Yu-Wen Wu/Prilla Smith Brackett Award, Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, Sept

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Boston Public Library, Boston MA
Dana Farber Institute, Boston MA
Danforth Museum, Framingham MA
Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston MA
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Business School, Cambridge MA
Haslla Museum of Art, Gangneung, Korea
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston MA
Microsoft, Boston MA
Millenium, Boston MA
State Street Bank, Boston MA
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

SELECTED INTERVIEWS
2023 Shi, Yutong, “Interview: Yu-Wen Wu by Yutong Shi Interdisciplinary work about time, transformation, and cultural identity”, Bomb
Magazine, December 13th, 2023
2023 Lorch, Dana, “The Immigrant Experience Is Central to Her Art Alumna Yu-Wen Wu’s works embody conversations on migration and
identity, longing and belonging”, Tufts Now, May 19th, 2023
2020 Lindner, Gina, “The Communal Intimacy of Public Art: In Conversation with Yu-Wen Wu”, Boston Art Review, Issue 05, June 2020

SELECTED REVIEWS
Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe: “At the ICA, A Vital View Into the Boston Art Scene”, October 26, 2023
Lee Abigail, The Boston Globe, “The 2023 recipients of the ICA’s James and Audrey Foster Prize have distinct, multidisciplinary practices,”
March 29, 2023
Saltz Jerry, New York Magazine, “The Best New York Art Shows of 2022,” December 8, 2022
Saltz Jerry, New York Magazine, "Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the World," June 7, 2022
Cascone Sarah, Arnet 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,” May 6, 2022
Durón Maximilíano, ARTnews, “The Best Booths at Independent New York 2022, from Personal Abstraction to a Response to the Guston
Controversy”, May 5, 2022
McQuaid Cate, The Boston Globe, Yu-Wen Wu navigates themes of immigration and identity in exhibit at Praise Shadows, September 23,
2021, 249 A Street, Boston, MA 02210
Sinclair Jacquinn, The Artery, The Lights Glow For Artist Yu-Wen Wu’s 'Lantern Stories, November 11, 2020
The Boston Globe, Artist Lights up Chinatown with “a Wonderful Canopy’ of Lanterns, Diti Kohli, Boston MA September 22, 2020
Sampan, Beyond Neighborhoods and Generations: ‘Lantern Stories’ Continues illuminating Chinatown’s Past, Present, and Future,
Christina Mui,, Boston MA, November 6, 2020
Colby, Celina, Bay State Banner, ’Lantern Stories’ brings Chinatown History to Light, Boston MA September 23, 2020
Shira, Laucharoen, Sampan, Lantern Stories’ Public Art Will Soon Illuminate Chinatown’s Chin Park, Boston MA, August 21, 2020
Linder, Gina, Boston Art Review, Issue 05, The Communal Intimacy of Public Art: In Conversation with Yu-Wen Wu, June 2020
Blask, Dan, ArtSake, What Do People Misunderstand about Your Art?, Mass Cultural Council, December 2019
Reynolds, Pamela, Artery, In 'Leavings/Belongings,' Artist Yu-Wen Wu Explores Women's Stories of Displacement Wbur; the ARTery; June
2019
Kelleher, Katy, Art New England, Migration Made Visible at MECA, November/December 2018
Daniel, Kathy, Portland Press Herald, See migration, its ‘traces, tracks and pathways,’ at MECA, December 9, 2018
Mcquaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, In Maine Looking at Art and Migration, November 14, 2018
Chi, Doris, Sampan, Artist Yu-Wen Wu examines climate change in ‘With/Out Water‘, October18, 2018
ACDC Blog, Yu-Wen Wu’s WITH/OUT WATER Installation Brings Interactive Art to Hudson Street (October 3, 2018)
Eyring, Adurey, Union of Concerned Scientists, Climate Change Connects with Fears of Displacement in Boston Art Installation, Nov. 2018
McQuaid, Cate,The Boston Globe, Resistant Currents,’ at the Boston Center for the Arts, Looks at Immigration, August 22, 2018
Reynolds, Pamela, WBUR, Resistant Currents' At Boston Center For The Arts Explores The Ebb And Flow Of Migration, July 27, 2018
Sculpture Magazine, Random Walks and Chance Encounters by Mason Riddle, July/August 2016
Rosenblatt, Molly, CBS Minnesota, Weisman Ponders the Magic of Clouds, February 9, 2016
Abbe, Mary, Star Tribune, Clouds Fill the Weisman in a Fun Show, February 16, 2016
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “Motifs, Contradictions, Changed Orientations in Gallery Shows”, September 22, 2015
Krinsky, Anne, Art New England, “Yu-Wen Wu: Self-Similar”, December/January 2009-2010
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “All Perspectives are Still Too Few; Exploring Paths to Knowing the World”, November 25, 2009
Formanek, David, ArtsEditor, “Sequenced Chaos”, October 12, 2009
Bergeron, Chris, Metrowest Daily News, “Wayland Artist’s Work Sings”, October 8, 2009 www.metrowestdailynews.com Wayland Artists
Work Sings
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “A Mix of Meanings”, November 15, 2007
Campbell, Karen, The Boston Globe Magazine, “Sight and Sound”, April, 2006
Schuster, George, Beacon Hill Times, “Yu-Wen Wu Meets the Mayor”, December 21, 2004
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “A Blank Slate”, May 21, 2004
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “Works Celebrate Solace That Flows From Writing”, September 23, 1999; Boston, MA 02210
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “Depth and Illusion: Varieties of Abstract Space”, October 29, 1998
Mulski, Susan, Art New England, “Dialogues Past and Present”, May/June 1999
Carlock, Marty, The Boston Sunday Globe, “Artist’s Abstracts Evoke Layers of Life”, August 7, 1994