Wenjie Yu (b.1997, Shanghai) lives and works in London and Shanghai. He holds MA degree at Royal College of Art and a BFA degree at China Academy of Art. He is an artist who experiences the world with insecurities. He regards absolute honesty and courage in art as his priority. His artworks originate from the expression of inner experiences generated by the body and spirit in the process of experiencing and exploring the world. These inner experiences give rise to illusions, memories, associations, fantasies and feelings, while these elements are constantly broken and reorganized into visual fragments. Therefore, grand and micro narratives that are both delicate and sensitive always coexist in his works.
Education
2020 - 2022 Royal College of Art, Sculpture, MFA, London
2016 - 2020 China Academy of Art, Experimental Art, BFA, Hangzhou, CN
Solo Exhibition
2025 Lingerfield, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai
Selected Exhibitions
2025 En route II, HdM Gallery, Beijing
2025 The rite of spring, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai
2024 Wind Whispers, Bluerider ART, Taipei
2024 Ways of being, Once Gallery& SunS Living Gallery, Beijing
2024 Hope is the thing with feathers, Bluerider ART, Shanghai
2024 Everything grows and grows, Z Space& Once Gallery& SunS Living Gallery, Beijing
2024 Unraveling landscape, The SWATCH Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
2024 Dark sky park, SHaN SHaNG Art Space, Xiamen, CN
2023 Sheer Edgy, Hankyu, Ningbo, CN
2023 Chain reaction, Bonian Art Space& WAS Art Centre, Shanghai
2023 Escape of light, Gallery OM, Shanghai
2023 The infinite game: Dicing, Hexagon Gallery, Hongkong
2023 In the midst of a melting garden, RuptureXIBIT, London
2022 The infinite game: hide and seek, WAS Art Centre, Ningbo, CN
2022 Lapped Seams & Silver Linings, Standpoint Gallery, London
2022 We won't stop showing...., SET SET SET, London
2022 Garden of the new deity, Li Art Foundation, Shanghai
2021 Star start, Rearwindow Gallery, Hangzhou, CN
2021 The running water takes me to a farther lake, Meisyakan, Ningbo, CN
2021 Brighten up the night, Yuan Museum, Hangzhou, CN
2021 Amis the froth a leap rang of its spark of water and of life, YELL Space, Shanghai
2021 In the empty box, Tianwu Space, Shanghai
2020 HAHAHA, Tank Museum, Shanghai
2019 Live Together, CAA Museum, Hangzhou, CN
2018 The picnic of image, CAA, Hangzhou, CN
2018 2001, A Space Odyssey, L'amour Museum, Hangzhou, CN
2018 Absolute Magnitude, L'amour Museum, Hangzhou, CN
Selected Fairs
2025 ART021 international contemporary artfair, Shanghai
2025 Art Jakarta, Indonesia
2024 Moordn artfair, Guangdong
2024 ART TAIBEI, Taipei
2024 Art Central artfair, Hongkong
2022 Beijing contemporary art EXPO, Beijing
2022 ART021 international contemporary artfair, Shanghai
2022 SWAB international contemporary artfair, Barcelona
2021 Guangzhou contemporary art fair, Guangzhou, CN
2021 Guangzhou international public art fair, Guangzhou, CN
2017 International Moving Image Festival - Here and There, Hangzhou, CN
Institution Collections
2025 WAS art centre, Ningbo, CN
2024 SWATCH Peace Hote, Shanghai
2023 InterContinental Hotels Group, CN
Selected Projects
2025 Watch co-branded artist, New year watch“Hores of Fire”, SWATCH Group, Swiss
2024 Residency artist, SWATCH Peace Hotel, Shanghai
2024 Jewelry co-branded artist, DFALLA, Shanghai & Milan & Vancouver
2023 Project planner, "Seeds of Time", Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai
2023 Specially invited artist for VOCO Artist Residency, InterContinental Hotels Group, China
2021 Specially invited artist for new product launch, Chunfeng, Shanghai
2021 Specially invited artist for Centenary Dinner, GUCCI, Shanghai & Beijing
2019 Specially invited artist for SHOWROOM, PRADA, Shanghai