Yannie Gu (b. 1998, Shanghai, China) currently lives and works in New York.

Gu works primarily in the mediums of drawing and painting. The subject of her artworks concentrates on exploring women's self-identities, as well as human’s psychological activities while facing collective and personal traumas. Drawing inspirations from photographic source materials and films, her work creates surreal settings with the use of playful color palette, conducting discussions on the idea of femininity through different characters with the audiences. Lying between realistic and representational artistic style, Gu’s paintings capture vibrant figures in a variety of actions that further reflect women’s deeper insecurities and uneasiness through a voyeuristic lens. Subject matters like dreamy delusions and rampant emotions that are difficult to be delineated through words are able to find their ways in visual stories she constructs.

EDUCATION

2026 M.F.A. School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2023 M.A. New York University, New York, NY

2020 B.A, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

EXHIBITIONS

2023

“Ways of Seeing”, Group Exhibition, Museum 54. New York, NY

2022

“Best of the Best”, OnIine Exhibition, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2019

Senior Solo Exhibition, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Summer 2019 Group Show, Barbara Walters Gallery, Bronxville, NY

2017

Juried Group Show, Philips Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

PUBLICATION & INTERVIEW

Voyage LA: Interview, “Meet Yannie Gu”, Sep 5, 2023

Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art: “10 Questions with Yannie Gu”, July 4, 2022

Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine Issue 11: Inspired by Asian Art, Edition July 2022

Polemical Zine Issue 18: Change

RECOGNITION

Saatchi Art: 24 Artists to Collect in 2024

CONTACT
yanniegu06@gmail.com