YU-CHEN WANG

All of these are vital processes for developing her artistic practice—mapping, navigating and connecting. Her work is largely informed by the history of places, collective memories, individuals’ stories, and relationships established with different localities and communities: from Manchester’s textile and railway industries, Birmingham’s canal networks, Liverpool’s observation and maritime navigation, CERN’s particle physics research, South Yorkshire’s peat extraction and coal mining to East Anglia’s agriculture and ongoing peatland conservation, and most recently Taiwan’s mangrove forests.

 

She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at Drawing Biennial (London, 2024), Solid Art (Taipei, 2023), Le lieu unique (Nantes, 2022), MoCA Taipei (2020), Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn, 2020), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, 2020), Science Gallery Dublin (2020), iMAL (Brussels, 2020), Science Gallery London (2019), Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (2019), Tbilisi Triennial (2018), FACT (Liverpool, 2017), CFCCA (Manchester, 2016), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2016, solo show), Manchester Art Gallery (2016), and Taipei Biennial (2014).

 

Her residencies include Metal (Peterborough, 2019-21), Taipei Artist Village (2019), Seoul Museum of Art (2017), Drawing Room (London, 2016-17) and Science and Industry Museum (Manchester, 2015). She received the Honorary Mention, Collide International Award, Arts at CERN (Geneva, 2018) and subsequently delivered a new commission co-produced by the Science-Art Network for New Exhibitions and Research (ScANNER) for a 3-year EU touring programme.

 

​She is currently undertaking a 18-month Practice Research Residency as part of Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage project. Working with Tate and 15 national and international museum collections, the AHRC funded research project aims are to surface suppressed histories, amplify marginalised voices and re-evaluate artists and artworks ignored or side-lined by dominant narratives. The artist residencies will lead to new works that critically and creatively activate the emerging research and machine-learning technologies. The commissioned work will feature in a major public programme in collaboration with Tate Learning in October 2024.

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Yu-Chen Wang is Associate Lecturer in BA and MA Drawing at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London. Previously she has delivered lectures and talks at Goldsmiths College, University of London; Falmouth university, Cornwall; National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei; Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool; University of Lancaster, Lancaster; National Taipei University of Education, Taipei; University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury; National Cheng Kung University, Tainan; Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, London; College of Arts, University of Lincoln, Lincoln; Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.

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