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Simon Wu

Simon Wu is an artist based in New York. He is the Program Coordinator for The Racial Imaginary Institute and a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. 

Ahead of the publication of his new book, Dancing On My Own, Simon Wu speaks about his influences and allegiances



 

BY Simon Wu AND Andrew Durbin |

A personal essay on the importance of friendship and the ascendancy of Asian American stories in the mainstream

BY Simon Wu |

At the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the artist’s works are simultaneously maps, bodies and repositories

BY Simon Wu |

In her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the artist reaches new heights of candour

BY Simon Wu |

At Greene Naftali, New York, the shape-shifting collective's new paintings and sculptures reveal the limits of a generational cynicism in 2023

BY Simon Wu |

Using web3 technologies, the Berlin-based artist collective attempts to grant sovereignty to nature

BY Simon Wu |

At the Institute of Contemporary Art Virginia Commonwealth University, the artist cobbles together filmic and digital imagery to form spiritual beings

BY Simon Wu |

Simon Wu considers how the artist’s shiny sculptural configurations reflect the art world’s taste back at itself

BY Simon Wu |

At Grimm, New York, the Peruvian artist presents a body of work that asks us to defang our baleful understandings of ghosts

BY Simon Wu |

In a series of sculptures and installation works, the artist unpacks the self-destructive consequences of their faith in the solidarity of cisgender white men

BY Simon Wu |

At the New Museum, the exhibition, conceived by the late curator Okwui Enwezor, is a sobering look at the realities of Black grief, but fails to address its root cause

BY Simon Wu |

At Artists Space, New York, a retrospective of the collective’s body of work reminisces on the punkish criticality of the 1990s 

BY Simon Wu |

At Essex Street, New York, the artist presents an array of prefabricated objects through the lens of disability and chronic illness

BY Simon Wu |

The artist’s online project enacts a daily fantasy of revenge – or reparation – for the Western history of institutional racism and colonialism

BY Simon Wu |

The Asian-American designers embrace alienation as an integral aspect of identity

BY Simon Wu |