About
b. 2003, Hong Kong.
Currently based in London, UK.
“My practice explores the notion of ‘home’ as an emotional space of belonging, where memory can be revisited through light and shadow. As an oil painter, I am interested in the philosophies of home as investigated through a phenomenological lens. These isolating yet universal revelations on nostalgia, memory, and loss largely inform my work. I like to employ the motific nature of domestic landscapes and the liminality of light and space to create tangible tension, a collective aloneness reflective of the dichotomy between the inner mind and the exterior world. I work from photographs and memories of significant places I have once inhabited, and I like to hide the figures within my compositions, so that they are seen through their shadow silhouettes or obstructed by another layer of space, existing only as an echo that draws on my sentimentality towards a certain time and place.”
The multiple award-winning artist completed her BA in Fine Art Painting with First Class Honours at the University of the Arts London (2025) and will be having her first UK solo exhibition with Delphian Gallery in October 2026 as the First Prize winner of the Delphian Open Call 2025. After graduation, Yu has exhibited at JD Malat Gallery Mayfair, Mall Galleries, Well Hung Gallery, Vanner Gallery, Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop and Tiderip Gallery. Internationally, she exhibited at Hong Kong’s Fine Art Asia (2020) and Chantal Miller Gallery (2019).
Education
2022 - 2025 First Class Honours Bachelors degree in Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of the Arts,
University of the Arts London
2022 University of the Arts London
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design - distinction in Specialist Art: Painting
Upcoming Exhibitions
The Weight of Invisible Spaces Solo Exhibition presented by Delphian Gallery at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, opening on 22nd October 2026
Longing for home Collective Residency with RE—US London x Kubo Garden, opening 2nd October 2026
2026
The Society of Women Artists 165th Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
The Body in the Room at JD Malat Gallery, Mayfair, London
Well Hung Painting Prize Exhibition at Well Hung Gallery, London
2025
Delphian Open Call 2025 Winners Exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London
The Graduate Art Show at The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury
Recent Graduates Exhibition at the Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London
Vital Void at Tiderip Gallery, London
Camberwell Fine Art Painting Degree show at 1 Wilson Road, London
Open House at Winns Gallery, London
Walls of Anubis at The Crypt Gallery, London
What Now at Lake Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2024
Renters! at Safehouse 1, Peckham, London
Days Bygone, Days To Come (co-curated) at hArtslane Gallery, New Cross, London
Affordable Art Fair with Made in Arts London at Hampstead Heath, London
Coalesce group exhibition at Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London
The Essence of Being (co-curated) group at 30 Millbank, London
2023
Round Table 「圓桌」(co-curated) group at Belsize Community Library
In Between What Once Was (co-curated) group exhibition at SU gallery space,
Camberwell College of the Arts, London
The Space Between at TM Lighting Gallery, London
A Sense Of Place at Ogilvy Sea Containers, Southwark, London
Before Now, After Then at Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
2020
Finalists of Sovereign Arts Foundation Student Prize art competition at ‘Fine Art Asia’, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2019
Winners of “Sincerely Me - inspired by Pan Yu Lin” art competition at Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society, Hong Kong
2016
Womens-only ‘Art on the Line’ silent auction hosted by the American Women’s Association at The Space, Hong Kong
2015
I Love (solo) at Artland Gallery, Hong Kong
Awards
Christopher Seow Student Award First Prize 2026
Derwent Special Fine Art Award 2026
Shortlisted for the Well Hung Painting Prize 2026
Longlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize 2026
Longlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize 2025
Finalist in the Sovereign Art Students Prize 2020
Recipient of a Visual Arts Scholarship 2020
First Prize winner of Asia Society’s ‘Sincerely Me - Inspired by Pan Yu Lin’ art competition 2019
Shortlisted for the UOB ‘Art in Ink Awards’ 2019
Finalist in the Young Artists Development Fund’s ‘Hong Kong Territory-wide Youths 2018 Painting Day’