Boston’s ever-evolving public art installations are creating vibrant sites for civic dialogue, inspiring social interactions, and helping to build cultural and communal identity. Interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu is a fresh but significant contributor to this artistic territory. Her integrative practice is rooted in site-specific installation, video, drawing, text, research, and community engagement, often approached via methods of mapping, data visualization, and tracing conversations. She explores universal phenomena such as immigration (she is a Taiwanese immigrant herself), migration crises, environmental displacement, and climate change. Wu has a background in scientific research from her undergraduate studies at Brown University as well as in studio art, having taken RISD classes while at Brown and received her studio diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
