Yu-Wen Wu

Yu-Wen Wu is an interdisciplinary artist whose work intersects art, science, social and cultural issues. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wu’s subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her artwork, creating an intersection of personal narrative and global discourse. Arriving at an early age to the United States, her experiences have shaped her work in areas of migration, examining issues of displacement, assimilation, and the shape of identity in a new country

She has received many public art commissions, including Lantern Stories (2020 and 2022), commissioned by the Greenway Conservancy, and The Poetry of Reason at Tufts University. She was a 2021 recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, a 2023 recipient of the James and Audrey Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, a 2024 Stepping Stone Cohort of the Trellis Art Fund, New York and the 2024 Artist in Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Boston Public Library, Harvard Art Museums, ICA/Boston, and Princeton University Art Museum.