Yu-Chen Wang

Her recent project Full circle, an immersive cinematic video installation with sound design by Kristian Craig Robinson aka Capitol K, was commissioned by Doncaster Creates. Wang explores Doncaster’s industrial heritage and looks once again at the collision of nature and technology. The video was subsequently touring with screenings at The Lindholme Hall Estate in the Hatfield Moors and the Potteric Carr Nature Reserve as part of ArtBomb 2022.

During her artist- residency at Metal, Peterborough in 2022, Wang will research the history of draining the Fens with a particular interest in the interaction between historic and natural environments. Also in 2022, Wang adapted her installation If there is a place I haven't been to from 2020, originally commissioned by the Cube Project Space at Moca Taipei, for the exhibition L’œil du cyclone (Eye of the Storm) at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes.

In 2018, Wang received the Honorary Mention Collide Award, a partnership programme between Arts at CERN and FACT Liverpool. A group of artists were invited to reside at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Geneva) to advance their artistic practice by establishing a dialogue with engineers and particle physicists. The resulting 12 artworks by 11 international artists were first shown at FACT Liverpool in 2018 under the title Broken Symmetries, the exhibition then toured internationally. Wang's contribution was her project We aren't able to prove that just yet, but we know it's out there, where she combined images and references from both personal and institutional archives with interviews with scientists into a poetic narrative. By giving a voice to CERN’s unsung multitudes, its technicians, analysts and engineers, she explores the human scale of the CERN project.

In conjunction with her residency at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, Yu-Chen Wang created a multimedia project at the Victoria Baths. The Splash and a Last Drop, based on a short science fiction story, A Last Drop, by Bob Dickinson, included a series of drawings, sculptures, and a film about an immersive live performance that took place in 2011 in one of the empty Edwardian public baths and in the more futuristic setting of the polished metal Turkish baths.

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.

Yu-Chen Wang (born 1978 in Taichung Taiwan) is a British-Taiwanese artist and curator. She is based in London, UK, working internationally.