SELECTED REVIEWS
2024
Bloomberg: “Walking to Taipei Through A Google Maps Glitch”, Marie Patino, May 8, 2024
Misstropolis: “Mapping the Immigrant Experience with Yu-Wen Wu”, Hauck, Robin, April 15, 2024
Harvard Gazette: “It's Your Family’s Journey Too”, Anna Lamb, March 11, 2024
2023:
Boston Globe: “At the ICA, A Vital View Into the Boston Art Scene” Murray Whyte, October 26, 2023
The Boston Globe, “The 2023 recipients of the ICA’s James and Audrey Foster Prize have distinct, multidisciplinary practices,” Abigail Lee, March 29, 2023
2022:
New York Magazine, “The Best New York Art Shows of 2022,” Jerry Saltz, December 8, 202
New York Magazine, "Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the World," Jerry Saltz, June 7, 2022
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,” Sarah Cascone, May 6, 2022
ARTnews, “The Best Booths at Independent New York 2022, from Personal Abstraction to a Response to the Guston Controversy”, Maximilíano Durón, May 5, 2022
2021:
The Boston Globe, Yu-Wen Wu navigates themes of immigration and identity in exhibit at Praise Shadows, Cate McQuaid, September 23, 2021
2020:
The Artery, The Lights Glow For Artist Yu-Wen Wu’s 'Lantern Stories, Jacquinn Sinclair, 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
Bay State Banner, ’Lantern Stories’ brings Chinatown History to Light, Celina Colby,, Boston MA September 23, 2020
Sampan, Lantern Stories’ Public Art Will Soon Illuminate Chinatown’s Chin Park, Shira Laucharoen,, Boston MA, August 21, 2020
Boston Art Review, Issue 05, The Communal Intimacy of Public Art: In Conversation with Yu-Wen Wu, Gina Lindner, June 2020
2019
ArtSake, What Do People Misunderstand about Your Art?, Mass Cultural Council, Dan Blask December 2019,
Artery, In 'Leavings/Belongings,' Artist Yu-Wen Wu Explores Women's Stories of Displacement Wbur; the ARTery; Pamela Reynolds June 2019
2018:
Art New England, Migration Made Visible at MECA, Katy Kelleher, November/December 2018
Portland Press Herald, See migration, its ‘traces, tracks and pathways,’ at MECA, Daniel Kany, December 9, 2018
The Boston Globe, In Maine Looking at Art and Migration, Cate Mcquaid, November 14, 2018
Sampan, Artist Yu-Wen Wu examines climate change in ‘With/Out Water‘, Doris Chi, October18, 2018
ACDC Blog, Yu-Wen Wu’s WITH/OUT WATER Installation Brings Interactive Art to Hudson Street (October 3, 2018)
Union of Concerned Scientists, Climate Change Connects with Fears of Displacement in Boston Art Installation, Audrey Eyring, November 2018
The Boston Globe, Resistant Currents,’ at the Boston Center for the Arts, Looks at Immigration, Cate McQuaid, August 22, 2018
WBUR, Resistant Currents' At Boston Center For The Arts Explores The Ebb And Flow Of Migration, Pamela Reynolds July 27, 2018
Sculpture Magazine, Random Walks and Chance Encounters by Mason Riddle, July/August 2016
CBS Minnesota, Weisman Ponders the Magic of Clouds, Molly Rosenblatt, February 9, 2016
Star Tribune, Clouds Fill the Weisman in a Fun Show, Mary Abbe, February 16, 2016
TheBoston Globe, “Motifs, Contradictions, Changed Orientations in Gallery Shows”, Cate McQuaid, September 22, 2015