Weihui Lu

Artist Statement

I am interested in our relationship to time, land, and loss. Using the framework of traditional Chinese landscape painting in a contemporary context, my work explores nostalgia and ancestral memory, image reproduction and degradation, and the land itself as something alive and prescient, capable of grief as much as we are capable of empathy. Moving between painting, installation and printmaking, I am drawn to slow, embodied practices, both in resistance to the technological speed of modern-day image production and consumption, and as a mode of restoration and healing

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Bio

Weihui Lu was born in Shanghai, China, and grew up in Queens, New York. Using the framework of Chinese landscape painting in a contemporary context, her practice explores diasporic experience through personal narrative, as well as the broader environmental and psychological implications of the modern landscape. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, Trestle Gallery, Site:Brooklyn, Tutu Gallery and Studio 9D, among others, and she has been awarded residencies at Santa Fe Art Institute, Transborder Art, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, ChaNorth, and Arteles Creative Center. Lu co-curates at Bob’s Gallery, an experimental project space supporting emerging artists in Bushwick, NY, and holds a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University

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