Yu-Wen Wu

Yu-Wen Wu is an interdisciplinary artist whose work intersects art, science, social and cultural issues. 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, Somerville, MA. 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 (in which she has created the museum facade to be installed June 2025). Her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Boston Public Library, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, and Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ.