Wu Chi-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1986. He holds a Master of Media Art from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Chi-Yu’s work has long been focusing on re-establishing the connections among humans, things, animals, and the ruined world left by technic capitalism. His practice revolves around the moving image, looking for contemporary narratives in lost memory through the reproducing of oral history and myths. He is also involved in different collaboration projects of installation, video installation, and performance.
Wu Chi-Yu’s works have been exhibited internationally. Include “Video Art Exhibition- CHEN I-Chun, HSU Chia-Wei, Hsu Che-Yu, WU Chi-Yu” at Liang Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan in 2019; In 2018, “12th Shanghai Biennale: Proregress” at Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China, “Re-Base: When Experiments Become Attitude” at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab in Taipei, Taiwan, “Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology” at MOCA in Taipei, Taiwan, “Against Architecture” at SeMA Storage in Seoul, Korea, “f(r)iction in between” at Werkschauhalle in Leipzig, Germany, DATA “MANIA-Now&After’18” at CCI Fabrika in Moscow, Russia. And solo exhibition “91 Square Meters of Time” at TKG+ Project in Taipei, Taiwan in 2017. In 2019 and 2016, he was selected to participate in the Film Sector at Art Basel Hong Kong. Wu’s works have been included in the collections of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan.