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Walking to Taipei
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Yu-Wen Wu
Walking to Taipei , 2021
Mixed media on Dura-Lar, rice paper, acrylic scroll ends, wooden scroll box
20'' x 20'
YW001
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Exhibitions
Internal Navigation, Yu-Wen Wu, September 9 - October 10, Praise Shadows Art GalleryLiterature
"Walking To Taipei Through a Google Maps Glitch" by Marie Patino, Bloomberg, May 8 2024,https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-08/walking-to-taipei-through-a-google-maps-glitch
"Mapping the Immigrant Experience with Yu-Wen Wu" by Robin Hauck, Misstropolis, April 15, 2024
https://yuwenwustudio.com/selected-reviews
"It is your family's journey, too" Anna Lamb, The Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/03/it-is-your-familys-journey-too/
"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" by Sarah Cascone, Artnet, May 6 2022
https://news.artnet.com/market/yu-wen-wu-google-maps-independent-fair-2110513
"Yu-Wen Wu's Algorithmic Odyssey Around the World" by Jerry Saltz, Vulture, June 7 2022, https://www.vulture.com/2022/06/yu-wen-wus-algorithmic-odyssey-around-the-world.html
"Yu-Wen Wu turned an absurdist set of Google Maps walking directions into 20-foot artwork in the tradition of Chinese landscape scrolls." by Babak Fakhamzadeh, Walk Listen Create, May 7, 2022
https://walklistencreate.org/2022/05/07/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/
"'Migration Is an Issue That Affects Everyone': An Interview With Yu-Wen Wu," by Madeleine Aitken, Every littled, August 26, 2025 https://impulsemagazine.com/symposium/migration-is-an-issue-that-affects-everyone-an-interview-with-yu-wen-wu
"Yu-Wen Wu: 2019 Prilla Smith Brackett Award Winner" The Davis. Davis Museum at Wellesley College https://www1.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/Virtual_platform/yu-wenexhibit
"Studio Visit: Yu-Wen WU | Instiute of Contemporary Art/Boston" September 13, 2023, ICA Boston,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzcmFKDMpq8
"Yu-Wen Wu navigates themes of immigration and identity in exhibit at Praise Shadows Art Gallery" by Cate McQuaid, September 2021, Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/23/arts/yu-wen-wu-navigates-themes-immigration-identity-exhibit-praise-shadows-art-gallery/
"Google Maps navigation turned into a long scroll painting! Artist Yu-Wen Wu "walks" from Boston to Taipei" by Lucinda Chen, May 2022, La Vie
https://www.wowlavie.com/article/ae2200761
"In 'Leavings/Belongings,' Artist Yu-Wen Wu Explores Women's Stories of Displacement" by Pamela Reynolds, June 5 2019, WBUR
"2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize" ICA Boston, https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/2023-james-and-audrey-foster-prize/
"Mapping and Connectivity" by Nathalie Meibach, June 6, Catalyst Conversatioins
https://www.catalystconversations.org/mappingandconnectivity
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