Yuna Yu

Yuna Yu (b. 1997) was born in Chengdu and has lived and studied in Toronto, Beijing, and London since she was fourteen. Her cross-regional experiences have prevented her from forming a single cultural identity; instead, she has developed a unique, fluid subjectivity shaped by constant displacement. Using mythological themes, medieval artifacts, and historical archives as mediums, she stitches together individual memory and collective human history, creating an image language that both incorporates Eastern cultural elements and reflects a global citizen’s perspective. Drawing from her personal experience of the blurred and complex nature of identity in the context of globalization, she employs “displacement” as a creative method. Her works, shaped by her sensitivity to different cultural contexts, display extended and drifting visual characteristics.

1997   Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China

2020   BA Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

2025   MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London.

Currently lives and works in London

Solo Exhibition

2025   Hive Becoming LIX: The Serpent Archive, Hive Becoming Shanghai, China

2023   Tunnel (Dual Solo Exhibition), Simulacra Gallery, Beijing, China.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025   ArtEvol 2025: Voices from Undefined, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.

2024   Rehearsal, Chun Art Museum, Shanghai, China

             I Painting Therefore I Am, Hiart Space, Shenzhen, China

            Burning Your Boats, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

            Self as Method, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China

            New Face of Painting: Rear Wave, Line Gallery, Beijing, China

            The Gift of Holly, Line Gallery, Shanghai, China

2023  Fractal Resonance 16 Memetic Archetypes, Epoch Art Museum x RE’ VAN, Shanghai, China

2022   2022 John Moores Painting Prize (China) Exhibition, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China