Yan Wu
Formerly trained as a computer programmer, Yan Wu is a Shanghai-born and Toronto-based curator. Her practice contemplates the interplay of public art, architecture, and urban design. She has collaborated with arts organizations including Gendai Gallery, Art Metropole, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, and Gallery 101. In 2012, she initiated and curated a year-long spatial and institutional experiment titled Gendai Workstation with a team of like-minded interdisciplinary collaborators. The project received a special jury award at the 25th Images Festival, and subsequently dissolved and transformed itself into an on-going landscape of mobile organization strategies: a moveable unit of modular furniture, a tote bag, and a library that privileges relations to book titles. She recently co-curated the Canada Pavilion with Janine Marchessault at the 5th Bi-city Urbanism/Architecture Biennale in Shenzhen China. Currently, Wu is an MVS candidate in Curatorial Studies at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.