b. 1991, Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Queens, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2025 when there is no longer a danger of frost, Tempest Gallery, Ridgewood, NY.
2023 Altar, Transborder Art, Governor's Island, NY.
2021 The End of The World Is Forever, Tutu Gallery, Ridgewood, NY.
2013 stranger’s eye, intimate text, Louise McCagg Gallery, New York, NY.
Select Group Exhibitions
2025 Trees We Breathe, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY. | Curated by Rachel Gugelberger & Gabriel de Guzman
Panorama of Roots, Steinberg Museum of Art, Greenvale, NY. | Curated by Stephanie S. Lee
2024 Ends Well, Mother-in-Laws, Upstate Art Weekend, Catskills, NY. | Curated by Field Projects
Rhapsody Tentacular, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY. | Curated by SiSi Chen
Femina Creativa, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY. | Curated by Stephanie S. Lee
EnvironMental Coy, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY. | Curated by Sika Foyer
Semi-permeable: Meditations on Membranes, Remembrance and Mending, Living Skin Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY. | Curated by Rose Malenfant and Leah Huang
Meandering, Spiraling, Unraveling, Accent Sisters, Jersey City, NJ. | Curated by Siyu Chen
Propagation-Suspended Roots, Studio 9D, New York, NY | Curated by Rose Malenfant
2023 Time and Beauty: ChaNorth Alumni Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY. | Curated by Peter Fulop
Illiquid Objects, Studio 9D, New York, NY. | Curated by Defne Tutus and Yasmeen Abdallah
Echoes of Home, Li Tang x RIVAA Gallery, Roosevelt Island, NY.
A Moving Image, :iidrr, New York, NY, online screening.
Reflections, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY.
Abstraction, Distortion & Fragmentation, Li Tang Gallery, Online.
2022 Very Naughty Super Trashy, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
The Elements, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY.
Series, Site:Brooklyn, Online.
Byrdcliffe Open Studios, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY.
ChaNorth Open Studios, Chashama North, Pine Plains, NY.
Residency Presentation, Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland.
2021 Wholeness, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Bushwick Open Studios 2021, M.David and Co., Brooklyn, NY.
End of Season Residency Exhibition, Arts Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY.
Landscape: The Built and the Grown, Site: Brooklyn, Online.
SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible, Arts Letters & Numbers’, CITYX
Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. Online.
Emergence, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY.
2020 Personal Prospecting, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. | Curated by Dexter Wimberly
Here, Now: 2020 TAS Members Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Climate Change: What Will You Do To Help? Oxford Arts Alliance, Oxford, PA.
Art Gowanus 2020 Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY
Virus of Dehumanization: Capitalism and Its Need for the Underclass, Alterwork Studios, Online.
18th St Women, Trestle Art Space, Online.
Heat and Relief, Vacant Museum, Online.
31 Under 30, Michael Rosen Fine Art, Online.
2019 Burn This, LIC Arts Open, Long Island City, NY.
2018 Dream, Creative Spirit Gallery, Marblehead, MA.
Residencies
2025 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Bronx, NY
I-Park Residency, East Haddam, CT (upcoming)
2024 Marble House Project, Vermont, VT
2023 Transborder Art, Govenor's Island, NY
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2022 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY
ChaNorth Residency, Pine Plains, NY
Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2021 Arts, Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
2020 Trestle Art Space Residency, Brooklyn, NY
Curatorial Projects
2024 Second Hand, solo show by Maya Strauss, Bob's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Interwoven, Bob's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. (Co-curated with Sammy Bennett)
My Eye is a Mouth, two person show by Carl D'Alvia and Kalina Winters, Bob's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
(Co-curated with Sammy Bennett)
The Generations, solo show by Jan Dickey, Bob's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
(Co-curated with Sammy Bennett)
Pizza Party, solo show by Jordan Segal, Bob's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2023 I Am Listening Anyway, solo show by Katherine Yaochen Du, Cummings Art Center Gallery,
Connecticut College, CT
2023 A Peek Behind The Curtain, Bob's Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. (Co-curated with Sammy Bennett)
Grants & Awards
2024 Bard Graduate Fellowship
2023 Santa Fe Art Institute BIPOC Award
2022 Visual Arts Grant, Milton and Sally Arts Foundation
2021 New Work Grant, Queens Council on the Arts
City Corps Artist Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
2013 Centennial Scholars Fellowship, Barnard College
Artist Talks
2025 "A Conversation with Weihui Lu", Tempest Gallery, Ridgewood, NY. (upcoming)
2024 Panel Discussion, "Semi-permeable: Meditations on Membranes, Remembrance and Mending," Living Skin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2023 “SFAI140”, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
Panel Discussion, “A Moving Image”, :iidrr, New York, NY.
2021 “Rendering Resilience: Creative Practices for Personal and Collective Coping”, Local Project, Long Island City, Queens.
“The End Of The World Is Forever Artist Talk”, Tutu Gallery, IG Live.
“Speaking in Myths”, Bank Street School for Children, New York, NY.
Select Bibliography
2025 Art Spiel, Jan Dickey and Terra Keck, "Weihui Lu and Wave Hill", May 26.
Hyperallergic, “Hyperallergic Spring 2025 New York Art Guide”, (Wave Hill WinterWorkspace citation), Feb 20.
2024 World Journal, Xing Yilin, “New York Women's Art Exhibition Explores Diverse Creativity:
Weihui Lu’s ‘Eight Saints’ is inspired by the story of the Eight Immortals,” Mar 13.
2023 Hyperallergic, Maya Pontone, "A Brief History of Art in the Hudson Valley" Jul 21.
Li Tang, “Finding the Narrative in Landscape and Psyche, Interview with NYC-Based artist Weihui Lu,” Jul 18.
Hyperallergic, Maria Manuela, “Artists Contemplate Sovereignty in Santa Fe,” Mar 28.
Education
2027 Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College M.F.A. Sculpture Candidate
2013 Barnard College B.A. English Literature