Artist Bio
Xiangjie Rebecca Wu (b. 1998. Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China) is an artist based in Brooklyn. Her figurative painting draws from her personal memory and daily experience. By visualizing and memorializing the lost objects, time, and land, her painting evokes contemplation on the intricate relationship between memory, selfhood, loss, and the palpable fear of insecurity that permeates our existence. She received a B.A. with a double major in Studio Art and Philosophy. She graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA degree in 2024. Her work has been shown in 1969 Gallery, NY; Marvin Garden, NY; Eleventh Hour Gallery, NY; Cinema Supply, NY; and Art021, SH.
邬湘婕生于 1998 年，中国江苏省江阴人，是一位居住在纽约布鲁克林的艺术家。她的具象绘画取材于她的个人记忆和日常经验。通过将失去的时间和土地可视化并加以纪念，她的绘画唤起了人们对记忆、自我身份、失去以及弥漫在我们生存中的对不安全感的恐惧之间错综复杂关系的思考。她于 2022 年获得 College of Wooster 的艺术和哲学双学士学位。她的作品于 2022 年被 College of Wooster 艺术博物馆收藏。2024 年，她从 Pratt Institute 毕业，获得艺术硕士学位。她的作品在 1969 Gallery，Latitude Gallery ，Marvin Garden，Eleventh Hour，Cinema Supply 和上海 Art021展出。
Artist Statement
Drawing on themes of memory, time, and contemplation, I convey in my paintings the personal yet uncanny moments of mundane life that are unnoticed. The imagery and objects in my paintings are a recollection of bitterness and freedom from my childhood in the Yangtze River village, as well as a sense of solitude and anxiety in the present. Instead of depicting a specific story, these figurative paintings seek to evoke the experience of gazing at and meditating on things as we go about our lives. The references to memory both create and alienate the contemplative object, suggesting again and again the distance between the past and the present as the place where meaning is made. Gazing at the objects in the paintings becomes a self-imposed gaze of existence and a perpetual meditation on love and loss. With fragmentary references to life in unclear time and place, the paintings evoke a yearning for introspection about oneself and existence. The mingling of memory and the present, image and reality, awakens the tender and melancholic sentiments we experience in our spiritual longing.
围绕着记忆，内省和时间的主题，我的画捕捉了日常生活中不被关注的亲密又不适的瞬间。我的作品中所选择的图像与物品既有对童年的长江村庄生活中的苦涩与自由的回顾，又来自于对当下存在的沉默与焦虑的感触。这些具象的绘画试图捕捉我们在生活中凝视对象和沉思的体验，而不是特定事件的一部分。对回忆的引用，既创造了也疏远了沉思的对象，一次又一次的暗示了过去与当下的间隙，成为意义的产生之地。绘画中的对对象的凝视成为了生存中的自我凝视，并不断的在爱与失落中进行思考。几乎是碎片式的对生活瞬间的引用和暧昧不定的时空，引发了对自我与生存的内省的欲望。将记忆与当下，图像与现实揉合在一起，唤起了我们在精神渴望中的温柔和忧郁情绪。
Xiangjie Rebecca Wu (b. 1998. Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China) is an artist based in Brooklyn. Her figurative painting draws from her personal memory and daily experience. By visualizing and memorializing the lost objects, time, and land, her painting evokes contemplation on the intricate relationship between memory, selfhood, loss, and the palpable fear of insecurity that permeates our existence. She received a B.A. with a double major in Studio Art and Philosophy. She graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA degree in 2024. Her work has been shown in 1969 Gallery, NY; Marvin Garden, NY; Eleventh Hour Gallery, NY; Cinema Supply, NY; and Art021, SH.
邬湘婕生于 1998 年，中国江苏省江阴人，是一位居住在纽约布鲁克林的艺术家。她的具象绘画取材于她的个人记忆和日常经验。通过将失去的时间和土地可视化并加以纪念，她的绘画唤起了人们对记忆、自我身份、失去以及弥漫在我们生存中的对不安全感的恐惧之间错综复杂关系的思考。她于 2022 年获得 College of Wooster 的艺术和哲学双学士学位。她的作品于 2022 年被 College of Wooster 艺术博物馆收藏。2024 年，她从 Pratt Institute 毕业，获得艺术硕士学位。她的作品在 1969 Gallery，Latitude Gallery ，Marvin Garden，Eleventh Hour，Cinema Supply 和上海 Art021展出。
Artist Statement
Drawing on themes of memory, time, and contemplation, I convey in my paintings the personal yet uncanny moments of mundane life that are unnoticed. The imagery and objects in my paintings are a recollection of bitterness and freedom from my childhood in the Yangtze River village, as well as a sense of solitude and anxiety in the present. Instead of depicting a specific story, these figurative paintings seek to evoke the experience of gazing at and meditating on things as we go about our lives. The references to memory both create and alienate the contemplative object, suggesting again and again the distance between the past and the present as the place where meaning is made. Gazing at the objects in the paintings becomes a self-imposed gaze of existence and a perpetual meditation on love and loss. With fragmentary references to life in unclear time and place, the paintings evoke a yearning for introspection about oneself and existence. The mingling of memory and the present, image and reality, awakens the tender and melancholic sentiments we experience in our spiritual longing.
围绕着记忆，内省和时间的主题，我的画捕捉了日常生活中不被关注的亲密又不适的瞬间。我的作品中所选择的图像与物品既有对童年的长江村庄生活中的苦涩与自由的回顾，又来自于对当下存在的沉默与焦虑的感触。这些具象的绘画试图捕捉我们在生活中凝视对象和沉思的体验，而不是特定事件的一部分。对回忆的引用，既创造了也疏远了沉思的对象，一次又一次的暗示了过去与当下的间隙，成为意义的产生之地。绘画中的对对象的凝视成为了生存中的自我凝视，并不断的在爱与失落中进行思考。几乎是碎片式的对生活瞬间的引用和暧昧不定的时空，引发了对自我与生存的内省的欲望。将记忆与当下，图像与现实揉合在一起，唤起了我们在精神渴望中的温柔和忧郁情绪。
Education:
2022-2024 Pratt Institute, Master of Fine Art.
2018-2022 College of Wooster, Bachelor of Art, Double Major Studio Art and Philosophy.
Work Experiences:
2024 Gallery Assistant Internship in PPOW gallery, New York.
Solo Show:
2024 Blue Murmur, Marvin Gardens, NY
Duo Show:
2024 Mason Hunt + Xiangjie Rebecca Wu, 1969 Gallery, NY
Group Show:
2025 Lingering Haze, Latitude Gallery, New York
2024 Dream Archives, Eleventh Hour Gallery, NY
2024 Shanghai Art021, Latitude, SH, China
2024 Why Be Lonely, Cinema Supply, New York
2024 Bandaged Moment, Tutu Gallery, New York
2024 Ningbo Contemporary, Latitude Gallery, Ningbo, China
2024 Seeking Light, The Scholart Selection, San Gabriel, CA
Commissions:
2022 President Portrait of College of Wooster, Wooster, OH.
Collections:
2022 College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH.
Publications:
2024, 5 Artists on Our Radar in December 2024, Artsy, New York
2024, Unsung Galleries: Notes from a Walkabout, Two Coats of Paint, New York
2024, A Meditation on Memory: Rebecca Wu’s Intimate Debut in “Blue Murmur,” A Women’s Thing, New York
2024, Artforum Art Guide must-see show, Artforum, New York
2024, I Like Your Work’s 2024 Spring Catalog, New York
2024, Create Magazine, Issue 43, New York
2022-2024 Pratt Institute, Master of Fine Art.
2018-2022 College of Wooster, Bachelor of Art, Double Major Studio Art and Philosophy.
Work Experiences:
2024 Gallery Assistant Internship in PPOW gallery, New York.
Solo Show:
2024 Blue Murmur, Marvin Gardens, NY
Duo Show:
2024 Mason Hunt + Xiangjie Rebecca Wu, 1969 Gallery, NY
Group Show:
2025 Lingering Haze, Latitude Gallery, New York
2024 Dream Archives, Eleventh Hour Gallery, NY
2024 Shanghai Art021, Latitude, SH, China
2024 Why Be Lonely, Cinema Supply, New York
2024 Bandaged Moment, Tutu Gallery, New York
2024 Ningbo Contemporary, Latitude Gallery, Ningbo, China
2024 Seeking Light, The Scholart Selection, San Gabriel, CA
Commissions:
2022 President Portrait of College of Wooster, Wooster, OH.
Collections:
2022 College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH.
Publications:
2024, 5 Artists on Our Radar in December 2024, Artsy, New York
2024, Unsung Galleries: Notes from a Walkabout, Two Coats of Paint, New York
2024, A Meditation on Memory: Rebecca Wu’s Intimate Debut in “Blue Murmur,” A Women’s Thing, New York
2024, Artforum Art Guide must-see show, Artforum, New York
2024, I Like Your Work’s 2024 Spring Catalog, New York
2024, Create Magazine, Issue 43, New York