Yu-Chen Wang
lives and works in London
Taiwanese-British artist, Yu-Chen Wang’s work asks fundamental questions about human identity at a key point in history, where ecosystems and technosystems have become inextricably intertwined. She has a long-standing interest in the entangled relationship between land, history, and identity. Many of her projects have been developed through residencies, field research, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations, site-responsive exhibitions and public engagement. 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, personal stories, and relationships 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 and East Anglia’s peatlands and, most recently Taiwan’s mangrove forests.
She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at Tate Modern (London, 2024), 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 (CCCB) (2019), Tbilisi Triennial (2018), FACT (Liverpool, 2018, 2017), CFCCA (Manchester, 2016, solo show), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2016, solo show), Manchester Art Gallery (2016), and Taipei Biennial (2014).
Her residencies include UAL Decolonising Arts Institute (London, 2023-24), 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.
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.
Emotionarama 2020
Published by Slimvolume; distributed by Cornerhouse Publications
Quantum: In search of the invisible 2019
Published by CCCB and Direcció de Comunicació de la Diputació de Barcelona
30 Years of CFCCA 2016
Published by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester; distributed by Cornerhouse Publications
Return From Voluntary Exile: Yu-Chen Wang talks to White Fungus 2016
Published on the occasion of Nostalgia for the Future, solo show at Taipei Fine Arts Museum
The Song of the Machines 2012
Published by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester; distributed by Cornerhouse Publications