Yu-Chen Wang (born 1978 in Taichung Taiwan) is a British-Taiwanese artist and curator. She is based in London, UK, working internationally.
Yu-Chen Wang graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in London in 2002. She previously attended the Postgraduate Study programme at Goldsmiths College University of London.
Wang has worked with the impact of industries and navigation on nature, landscape and people in Northern England. Most recently, she extended her research onto TaiwanâÂÂs mangrove forests. She states that her practice "very much focuses on research and process, experience and relationship. ThereâÂÂs a particular way for developing my work, which often involves a period of time spent in a specific place. I would then undertake extensive research the contextual histories and engage with a group of locally-based people or specialists who would assist my research. Two major components IâÂÂd like to explore generally: the archives and archaeology, which form the main source of inspiration for developing my work."
In 2011, Wang created a multimedia project at the Victoria Baths as a result of her residency at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester. The Splash and a Last Drop, based on a short science fiction story by Bob Dickinson, included a series of drawings, sculptures, and a film about an immersive live performance.
Her projectàFull Circle,àan immersive cinematic video installation with sound design by Kristian Craig Robinson akaàCapitol K,àwas commissioned byàDoncasteràCreates.àWang explored DoncasterâÂÂsàindustrial heritageàand looked once again at the collision of nature and technology.àThe video was subsequently touring with screenings at The Lindholme Hall Estate in theàHatfield Moorsàand theàPotteric Carr Nature Reserveàas part of ArtBomb 2022. During heràartist-àresidencyàat Metal,àPeterboroughàin 2022, Wang researched the history of drainingàthe Fensàwith a particular interest in the interaction between historic and natural environments.
Wang is interested in what is outside the picture, thereby excluded from history. The Honorary Mention Collide Award, a partnership programme between Arts at CERN and FACT Liverpool enabled Wang to be invited to Geneva in 2018 and establish a dialogue withàengineersàandàparticle physicists at CERN. Combining images and references from both personal and institutional archives with interviews with scientists she created the poetic narrativeàWe aren't able to prove that just yet, but we know it's out there. By giving a voice to CERNâÂÂs technicians, analysts and engineers, she explored the human scale of the CERN project. Wang's interest in quantum physics continued in her participation in the festival In the Ether â A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. She was talking at the Quantum Conversations â ItâÂÂs Here, There and Everywhere in 2025, on a panel with Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, and Eckhard Wallis, curator at Deutsches Museum.
Her work How We Are Where We AreÃÂ at Tate Modern in 2024 was looking at how collecting and displaying art are intertwined with industry andÃÂ empire. Using the visual tropes used by museums founded inÃÂ nineteenth-century Britain, Wang created a theatrical installation visitors could walk through.ÃÂ Her project was conceived during theÃÂ Transforming Collections Artist Research Residency,ÃÂ as part of theÃÂ Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and HeritageÃÂ project,ÃÂ led by Dr.ÃÂ susan pui san lok, director of theÃÂ UALÃÂ Decolonising Arts Institute.
Along her exhibitions, the artist sometimes hosts dinner or breakfast events, like theÃÂ cross-culturalÃÂ PÃÂn-toh SupraÃÂ at Contemporary Art Space inÃÂ BatumiÃÂ and atÃÂ TbilisiÃÂ Triennial inÃÂ Georgia, two of manyÃÂ collaborationsÃÂ with her partner, the British-GeorgianÃÂ artistÃÂ Andro Semeiko.
In her role as a curator, Wang was running the art space Basement Art Project in central London for many years. She curated Happy End at Yinka Shonibare's space Guest Projects in London featuring works by artists Andro Semeiko, Alasdair Duncan, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Ad de Jong, Sheena Macrae, Andrew Darke, Lakis and Aris Ionas, Sebastian Lowsley-Williams and Tomoko Takahashi, including performances by Tom Eykelhof and Lesley Cook and a film programme curated by Georgia Korossi.
Yu-Chen Wang is Associate Lecturer in BA Fine Art Drawing at Camberwell Collegeâ¯/ University of the Arts London.
She has given lectures and talks at Goldsmiths, University of London; Falmouth University, Cornwall; Liverpool John Moore University; National Taipei University of Education; University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury; National Cheng Kung University, Tainan; Wimbledon College of Arts London; Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore, among others.