Yiwei Lu
As an artist, Yiwei!s work has been exhibited internationally, including Nanjing Powerlong Art Center, The Wallach Art Gallery, SVA Library, Nanjing University of Arts, Trieste Photo Days, and Open Air Art Project.
As a refrigerator, Yiwei aims to unfreeze time, to make it hers. She focuses on the man-altered and social landscape. Created by humans, left with traces of use, they become part of human society and the figurative representation of collective memory. Through the methodical composition, the deepest levels of emotion transfers into extreme restraint.
Yiwei holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University, and an BFA in Photography and Video from the School of Visual Arts. She is currently artist-in- residence at Center for Performance Research.
Contact
917-536-7927
@luyiweitina
Education
MFA, Visual Art, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2024
BFA, Honor, Photo and Video, School of Visual Art, New York, NY, 2022
Artist in Residence
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 2026
Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY, 2025
Young Artist Studio Program: City Impression in Powerlong Art Center, 2023
Group exhibition
MSG Club Screening#01: Mirror Seduce Gash in YUME, New York, NY, 2026
Come Rot in My Bedroom in Accent Sisters, New York, NY, 2026
Show All Things Show in NYU ITPIMA, New York, NY, 2025
Interwoven Landscapes exhibition for LIC Arts Open in 43-01 22nd St, New York, NY, 2025
Currents in SK Gallery, New York, NY, 2024
Class of 2024 Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition in Wallach Art Gallery, Curated by
Fawz Kabra, New York, NY, 2024
Leaps of Consciousness in ZAZ Time square billboard,New York, NY, 2024
9 in theBlanc Gallery, New York, NY, 2023
The Other To Itself in Sotheby’s Institute,Curated by Myrtha Herrera and Daphney
Zeng, New York, NY, 2023
In Medias Res: in theBlanc Gallery, Curated by Aidan Ford Chisholm, Farren Fei Yuan,
New York, NY, 2023
Code Space in Nanjing Powerlong Art Center, Curated by Wang Xiaosong, Meng Yao,
Nanjing, China, 2023
A-Pou!s Taste in A-Pou!s Taste, Curated by Emiri Fujimoto, New York, NY, 2023
Sip from the Skull in Tipsy Shanghai 6, New York, NY, 2023
Visual Arts First Year MFA Exhibition in Wallach Art Gallery, Curated by Amy Sadao,
New York, NY, 2023
Picture Library 2022 in School of Visual Arts Library, New York, NY, 2022
Mentor 2022 exhibition Mentor: Lisa Kereszi, Curated by Joseph Maida, New York, NY,
2022
Imageless Dummy Photobook exhibition, Shanghai, China, 2021
In Solidarity in School of Visual Arts Galleries, New York, NY, 2021
Trieste Photo Days festival:Staying Home Together, Trieste, Italy, 2020
Housed 2020 [Collective Individual Todays], Curated by Joseph Maida, Online, 2020
Sugar A.S.S Curated by Anton Hazewinkel in Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing,
China, 2019
SVA Photography and Video Freshman Foundation Show, New York, NY, 2019
Sugar A.S.S Curated by Anton Hazewinkel in Drug Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2018
Open Air Art Project : SHE WU SHAN GO GO Curated by Olivia Kwok, Nanjing, China,
2017
Performance
OPEN AiR | Yiwei Lu: Ride or Die Train Ride in Center For Performance Research, New York, NY, 2025
ITP Camp Performance Showcase in The Garage @ 370 Jay St, New York, NY, 2025
OPEN LAB | Reimagining Rituals: Cyber Paper Effigies with Yiwei Lu in Center For Performance Research, New York, NY, 2025
Award
Brevoort-Eickemeyer Fellowship, Columbia University, 2023
Tokyo International Foto Awards,Professional Fine Art: Honorable Mention, 2022
Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Columbia University, 2022
Speaking Engagement
Columbia University, Guest Speaker, 2024
School of Visual Arts, Panel Talk, 2024
METAHOO ART, Panel Talk, 2023
College of Charleston, Visiting Artist, 2023
School of Visual Arts, Panel Talk, 2023
Curatorial Project
Primary Residence, :iidrr Gallery, New York, NY, 2024
Xiao Yvonne Yang: Daughters of Arachne, :iidrr Gallery, New York, NY, 2024
Elizabeth Bick: Three Acts, METAHOO Art Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2023
Quan Yuan: Please Remember, theBlanc Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
Yuxian He: Undertide, theBlanc Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
Selected Bibliography
BROAD Magazine, “Youth” Issue, 2025
Sotheby!s Institute Of Art: The Other To Itself, 2023
CanvasRebel Magazine, Meeting Yiwei Lu, 2023
Staying Home Together, Exhibit Around, 2020
F-Stop Magazine Issue #103, 2020