WU yufeng
(surname / first name) (He / Him)
(b, 1999 / Hainan/ China)
2022yufeng@gmail.com
Bio
Yufeng Wu (b. 1999) is a Chinese artist currently living in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths' MFA Fine Art (2024) and Shanghai Theatre Academy with a BA in Stage Art Lighting Design (2021). His recent work and research focus on exploring the connection between desire and space, especially through the study of non-place to discuss the uncertainty of desire. His works have been exhibited in London, Shanghai, Edinburgh, Haikou, and other cities. His works and research were recently presented at the 20th International Conference on the Arts in Society.
Statement
My research interest lies in exploring scenes, spaces, and ruins that relate to my own experiences and desires. I advocate seeing the body as a fluid state that is absent. In my practice, I construct fields by analyzing scenes and culture, adapting the function of objects and symbols, and even creating useless tools and dysfunctional spatial devices. On this basis, I imagine the change of space over time, presenting a discrete state of future scenes. Through the capture of images and symbols in life, and combining queer theory, non-anthropocentric theory, and actor-network theory, I examine the relationships between borders, spaces, patriarchy, masculinity, and desires and explore new possibilities related to these themes.
Education
2022-2024
Goldsmiths, University of London / UK / MFA. Fine Art
2017-2021
Shanghai Theatre Academy / CHN / BA. Stage Art Lighting Design
Goldsmiths, University of London / UK / MFA. Fine Art
2017-2021
Shanghai Theatre Academy / CHN / BA. Stage Art Lighting Design
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Creative Practice Showcase: The Queer Art Practice of Reconstructing Space: A New Creative Strategy to Validate Desire, Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh & Online, USA, 05/2025
199th RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh & Online, UK, 05-06/ 2025
SitnaltA, The Hangbag Factory, London, UK, 03/ 2025
2024
Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art degree show, Goldsmiths, London, UK, 07/ 2024
LGBTQ+Positive Voices, Goldsmiths Library, London, UK, 05/ 2024
Invisible Visible, A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Bodies and Identities, Part of The Telegraph Hill Festival 2024, Hartslane, London, UK, 03/ 2024
2023
Great Sounds Seek Silence - Sonic and Visual Art Exhibition, Goldsmiths Confucius Institute for
Dance and Performance, London, UK, 11/ 2023
SAFEWORD, safehouse 2, Goldsmiths, London, UK, 05/ 2023
NIGHTLIFE, e1ldn, LOOSE.SCREWS, London, UK, 03/ 2023
2021
Construction, Shanghai Theatre Academy Stage Art Department graduation exhibition, Shanghai, CHN, 06/ 2021
Selected Projects
2021
Advertising Art Director
Martell xxo, Quiet Noise Creative Video Studio, Shanghai
Props artist
Suntory Pomo Whisky The Art of Time, ISLAND, Shanghai
Lighting Designer / Lighting Design Assistant 2018-2021
2021
Deathvariations, Degree Show Lighting Design Team Leader, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai
Dreaming at the Bund · Song of Shanghai, Immersive multimedia drama, Lighting Design Assistant, Shanghai New Tian 'an Church, Shanghai
2020
Lixinyu 's concert Love Jiangnan, Concert, 1862 Fashion Art Centre, Shanghai
Los Angeles spirits, suspense drama, Orange Theatre, Ke Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai
2019
A Frightful Night for Christmas, Drama, Little Webb Theatre Company, Shanghai
Large-scale historical drama Tao Zongyi, Drama, Songjiang District Sijing Town People 's Government, Shanghai
The Second Warhorse Music Festival, Concert, 1862 Fashion Art Center, Shanghai
2018
Shanghai Theatre Academy and Columbia University Graduate Teaching Program in Screenwriting Achievements Exhibition, New Space Theatre, Shanghai Theatre Academy
Black Boat, Drama, New Space Theatre, Shanghai Theatre Academy
The Secret of the Sphinx, Immersive Drama, New Space Theatre, Shanghai Theatre Academy
Lucy, Forum theatre, New Space Theatre, Shanghai Theatre Academy