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Hi! I am Wen, an artist, an educator and a researcher.

I founded Pi Art and Seedling Books, where I designed interdisciplinary, curiosity driven art curricula for young learners. I am good at community building and engaging children online. During the pandemic, our program reached over 15,000 participants. I developed Museum Class curriculum and taught at Harvard Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts Boston. I collaborated with Peabody Essex Museum, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and Concord Academy on art and STEAM projects.
Since 2023, I have been developing AI and Creativity research and art educational tools in collaboration with Dr. Safinah Ali, and led an AI and Art workshop at the MIT Media Lab.
My multimedia artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally, such as de Young Museum and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Boston Center for the Arts, and Gallery Madison Park in New York. I have received grants from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Circle Foundation for the Arts in France. I have given talks at China Design Museum, Boston University, and Boston Urban Forum. My commissioned works include projects for City of Boston, City of Somerville, and Gemtek Ltd. in Taiwan.
I’ve pitched and secured funding at the Harvard Education Symposium (semi-finalist), the MIT CHIEF Pitch Competition (finalist), and the iBeehub Incubator in New York, helping raise a total of $450,000 in investment. In my earlier career, I worked as a creative consultant, providing live-marketing solutions for Coca-Cola, Bayer, and Bosch. In my spare time, I study and write about art at museums and row on a dragon boat team on the Charles River.
Art, Tech & Experiential Medium
Creative Learning Frameworks
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AI for Art Intelligence
Thinking Through Explorations
Exhibition and Features
2025
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Guest Speaker, Art and Technology, Boston University
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Curriculum Designer & Instructor, Art, Game Design and community Workshop (with Ayat) @ MIT Media Lab
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Panelist, Why AI & Art Matters, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
2024
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Panelist, Art & AI: Exploring the Future of Human Creativity, Boston Urban Forum, City of Boston
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Curriculum Designer & Instructor, Art and AI Workshop (with Safinah Ali) @ MIT Media Lab
2023
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Grant Recipient, Sockin’ the Climate, Festivals & Projects Grant, Mass Cultural Council
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Grant Recipient, Aura Dance, Collective Futures Fund (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts)
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Grant Recipient, Cultural Sector Recovery Grants, Mass Cultural Council
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Judge, Scholastic Art & Writing Award
2020–2022
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Fund Awarded, Public Art Learning Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts
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Guest Speaker, TAC’s Radical Community in New England, Bauhaus Exhibits Itself (University Anhalt, China Design Museum)
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Artist Talk, Cambridge Community Television (Tofu Company)
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Feature, Mass Cultural Council, Studio Views: Wen Yu — link
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Feature, The Woven Tale Press — link
2019
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Award, New to Arts Award, Fay Chandler Artist Award Exhibition, City of Boston Arts & Culture
2018
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Award, Artist of the Year Award, Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France
2015
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Award, Painting/Mixed Media Award, Divergence: Emerging Legacies, de Young Museum, San Francisco
2014
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Award, First Prize (Abstract Category), The Artist’s Magazine Annual Competition (Student Division)
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