CV
b. 1991, Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Queens, New York
Education
2027 M.F.A. Sculpture Candidate, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College
2013 B.A. English Literature, Barnard College
Solo Exhibitions
2027 untitled, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY. | Curated by Marisa Espe, River Valley Arts Collective
(upcoming)
untitled, Garage Art Center, Bayside, NY. (upcoming)
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.
Select Group Exhibitions
2026 Light and Transient Causes, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY | Curated by Marisa Espe (catalog)
Reassembly: 2026 MFA Thesis Show, Bard College, Barrytown, NY. | Curated by Mike Curran
mādar, CUE Foundation, New York, NY. | Curated by Melika Abikenari and Golnar Adili
Anywhere But Here, Nine, New York, NY. | Curated by Jordan Segal
Isolde, Isolde, Isolde, New York, NY.
Red Horizon, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY. | Curated by Stephanie S. Lee
2025 Trees We Breathe, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY. | Curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Gabriel de Guzman
(catalog)
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 and Leah Huang
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.
Reflections, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY.
2022 Very Naughty Super Trashy, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
The Elements, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY.
Reconcile: Begin Anew, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY. | Curated by Stephanie S. Lee
Series, Site:Brooklyn, Online.
2021 Wholeness, 440 Gallery, 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.
Here, Now: 2020 TAS Members Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Residencies
2027 MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (upcoming)
2026 Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Rockland, ME (upcoming)
2025 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Bronx, NY
I-Park Residency, East Haddam, CT
2024 Marble House Project, Vermont, VT
2023 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Transborder Art, Governor's Island, NY
2022 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY
ChaNorth Residency, Pine Plains, NY
Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2021 Arts, Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY
2020 Trestle Art Space Residency, Brooklyn, NY
Grants & Awards
2027 Bard College Fellowship at MASS MoCA (upcoming)
2024-6 Bard College Graduate Fellowship
2025 Bard College Teaching 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.
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, LIC, 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.
Curatorial Projects
2026 A Partial Refusal, group show, Field Projects, Chelsea, NY.
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. (Co-curated with Sammy Bennett)
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)
Juror
2026 Marble House Project, Juror for Artist Residency (Sculpture / 3D), Dorset, VT
Field Projects, Juror for Outdoor Sculpture exhibition, Germantown, NY
2025 Marble House Project, Juror for Artist Residency (Sculpture / 3D), Dorset, VT
Select Bibliography
2026 Material Works, Interview with Weihui Lu, Spring 2026.
Impulse Magazine, Emma Huerta, " A Story is That Which Remains After the Fact," Mar 29.
Copy, Alexandra Gold, “Isolde the Palimpsest: At New Artist-Run Gallery, Becoming is a Forever Process”, Mar. 18.
Two Coats of Paint, Will Kaplan, “Six Artists Meshing at Field Projects,” Mar. 17
Whitehot Magazine, Addison Bale, “Notes from a walkthrough of ‘A Partial Refusal’ at Field Projects,” Mar. 17.
2025 Art Spiel, Jan Dickey and Terra Keck, "Being There, with Weihui Lu", 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.