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 time and land, her painting evokes contemplation on 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 at the College of Wooster in 2022. Her works were collected by the College of Wooster Art Museum in 2022. She graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA degree in 2024. Her work has been shown in Make Room, LA; 1969 Gallery, NY; Scroll, NY; Latitude Gallery, NY; Marvin Garden, NY; Eleventh Hour Gallery, NY; Cinema Supply, NY; and Art021, SH.
邬湘婕 (1998年生于中国江苏江阴) 是一位工作生活于布鲁克林的艺术家。她的具象绘画创作源于个人记忆与日常经验，通过将消逝的时间与土地可视化并赋予其纪念性，她的作品唤起观者对记忆、自我、遗失以及生活中弥漫的深切不安感的思考。2022年，她以工作室艺术与哲学双专业毕业于伍斯特学院（College of Wooster），同年作品被伍斯特学院艺术博物馆收藏；2024年获普瑞特艺术学院（Pratt Institute）艺术硕士学位。作品曾展出于洛杉矶Make Room，纽约1969 Gallery、Scroll、Latitude Gallery、Marvin Garden、Eleventh Hour Gallery、Cinema Supply等空间，并参与上海ART021博览会。
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 time and land, her painting evokes contemplation on 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 at the College of Wooster in 2022. Her works were collected by the College of Wooster Art Museum in 2022. She graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA degree in 2024. Her work has been shown in Make Room, LA; 1969 Gallery, NY; Scroll, NY; Latitude Gallery, NY; Marvin Garden, NY; Eleventh Hour Gallery, NY; Cinema Supply, NY; and Art021, SH.
邬湘婕 (1998年生于中国江苏江阴) 是一位工作生活于布鲁克林的艺术家。她的具象绘画创作源于个人记忆与日常经验，通过将消逝的时间与土地可视化并赋予其纪念性，她的作品唤起观者对记忆、自我、遗失以及生活中弥漫的深切不安感的思考。2022年，她以工作室艺术与哲学双专业毕业于伍斯特学院（College of Wooster），同年作品被伍斯特学院艺术博物馆收藏；2024年获普瑞特艺术学院（Pratt Institute）艺术硕士学位。作品曾展出于洛杉矶Make Room，纽约1969 Gallery、Scroll、Latitude Gallery、Marvin Garden、Eleventh Hour Gallery、Cinema Supply等空间，并参与上海ART021博览会。
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:
2025 Joy of Yesterday, Make Room, LA
2024 Blue Murmur, Marvin Gardens, NY
Duo Show:
2024 Mason Hunt + Xiangjie Rebecca Wu, 1969 Gallery, NY
Group Show:
2025 Tipping the Scale, DeCA Foundation and Fou Gallery, New York
2025 Lingering Haze, Latitude Gallery, New York
2024 Dream Archives, Eleventh Hour Gallery, New York
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:
2025, Our Fresh Spring Picks: 5 Artists to Watch From the Artnet Gallery Network, Artnet, New York
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:
2025 Joy of Yesterday, Make Room, LA
2024 Blue Murmur, Marvin Gardens, NY
Duo Show:
2024 Mason Hunt + Xiangjie Rebecca Wu, 1969 Gallery, NY
Group Show:
2025 Tipping the Scale, DeCA Foundation and Fou Gallery, New York
2025 Lingering Haze, Latitude Gallery, New York
2024 Dream Archives, Eleventh Hour Gallery, New York
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:
2025, Our Fresh Spring Picks: 5 Artists to Watch From the Artnet Gallery Network, Artnet, New York
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