Curator, Art Historian, and Artist
Chinese (Beijing)
Mia Yu is a curator, art historian and artist-filmmaker. Her research-based practice examines the complex relationship between extractive landscape, infrastructure and eco-politics. Her creative work involves extensive field research centered around energy extraction and energy transition in Asia. Mia Yu combines images, folklores, cosmologies, dreams, poetry, and performances to construct speculative mythology and poetics about energy. Her Fushun Trilogy, consisting of three films and a performance, has been exhibited at Goethe Institut, Times Museum and CAFA Art Museum. She has curated exhibitions including “Fossil Sunlight, Sedimentary Bodies”, “A Darkness Shimmering in the Light”, “Counterpoints: Focus China”, “2021 OCAT Biennale: Resonances of One Hundred Things”, “Ecological Entanglements from Northeast China” and “From Vladivostok to Xishuangbanna”. Mia Yu has lectured about her work at Harvard University, University College of London, Cornell University, University of Toronto, Peking University, The Courtauld Institute of Art and Goldsmiths. Mia Yu has published essays in ARTMargin, Afterall, Artforum, Art Review Oxford, LEAP and Art Monthly. Her films are in the collection of Seatle Art Museum and University of Washington library.
