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Hi! I am Wen, an artist, an educator and a researcher.
I founded Pi Art and Seedling Books, where I designed interdisciplinary, curiosity-driven art curricula for young learners in a constructionist approach. I am good at community building and engaging children online. During the pandemic, our program reached over 15,000 participants. I developed Museum Class curriculum and taught at Harvard Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts Boston. I collaborated with Peabody Essex Museum, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and Concord Academy on art and STEAM projects.
Since 2023, I have been developing AI and Creativity research and art educational tools in collaboration with Dr. Safinah Ali, and led an AI and Art workshop at the MIT Media Lab.
As an artist, my multimedia artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally, such as de Young Museum and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Boston Center for the Arts, and Gallery Madison Park in New York. I have received grants from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Circle Foundation for the Arts in France. I have given talks at China Design Museum, Boston University, and Boston Urban Forum. My commissioned works include projects for City of Boston, City of Somerville, and Gemtek Ltd. in Taiwan.
In my earlier career, I worked as a creative consultant, providing live-marketing solutions for Coca-Cola, Bayer, and Bosch. In my spare time, I study and write about art at museums and row on a dragon boat team on the Charles River.
Art, Tech & Experiential Medium
Creative Learning Frameworks
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AI for Art Intelligence
Thinking Through Explorations
Exhibition and Features
2025
Guest Speaker, Art and Technology, Boston University
Curriculum Designer & Instructor, AI, Game Design, and Community Workshop with Safinah Ali and Ayat Abodayeh, MIT Media Lab
Panelist, Why AI & Art Matters, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Educator and Artist, Seedling Books and Publishing, Boston
2024
Panelist, Art & AI: Exploring the Future of Human Creativity, Boston Urban Forum, City of Boston
Curriculum Designer & Instructor, Art and AI Workshop with Safinah Ali, MIT Media Lab
AI and Creativity Research(Art.Tutor), with Safinah Ali @ MIT Media Lab
Visual Director, Boston Lunar New Year Festival Gala (Projection Mapping and VI Design), Boston City Hall, City of Boston
2023
Grant Recipient, Sockin’ the Climate, Festivals & Projects Grant, Mass Cultural Council
Grant Recipient, Aura Dance, Collective Futures Fund (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts)
Grant Recipient, Cultural Sector Recovery Grants, Mass Cultural Council
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Certificate, MIT xPRO
Judge, Scholastic Art & Writing Award
2020–2022
Public Art Learning Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts
Guest Speaker, TAC’s Radical Community in New England, Bauhaus Exhibits Itself (University Anhalt, China Design Museum)
Artist Talk and Residency, Cambridge Community Television (Tofu Company)
Feature, Mass Cultural Council, Studio Views: Wen Yu — link
Feature, The Woven Tale Press — link
26th Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts
Manifest Dismantling, Boston Cyberarts Gallery
Leading Teacher, iSTART Children's Art Festival, A4 Museum
2019
Award, New to Arts Award, Fay Chandler Artist Award Exhibition, City of Boston Arts & Culture
Commission, Baby Virus(Public Art), Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Commission, HONK!Fest (Public Art), Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Residency, Lakeside Lab AIR, Milford, IA (tradewar/soybean project in collaboration with Iowa Soybean Association)
Private Collection, Boston University
Interview, Drone, Somerville Media Center
2018
Award, Artist of the Year Award, Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France
Commission, Drone, Union Square, Somerville, MA (Lighting Installation commissioned by the City of Somerville)
Performing Feminism(s), Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Art Now: Drawing, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI (Curated by Perry Kulper)
33rd Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler, Texas
2016
You Don’t Look 50, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Curator, Share Your Last Minute Photography, Selected as one of the 14 public art projects of ArtWeek Boston, MA
Curator, Landing, Mo+CA Projects, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2015
Award, Painting/Mixed Media Award, Divergence: Emerging Legacies, de Young Museum, San Francisco
Bring to light, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Landing, Mo+CA Projects, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Student Showcase Advisory Committee, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts
2014
Award, First Prize (Abstract Category), The Artist’s Magazine Annual Competition
Community Art Project, Hang Art, Clyde & Co. (International Law Firm), San Francisco, CA
