Yu-Chen Wang: securing and making the most of artist residencies
Event
Yu-Chen Wang: securing and making the most of artist residencies
27 May 2025
6-8pm
Castlefield Gallery / Online
This event is for Castlefield Gallery Associates only.
Blended event:
– in person at Castlefield Gallery
– and online via Zoom
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Looking to secure artist residencies and don’t know where to start? Want to understand more about how to make the most of residencies?
Join us for the next Associates event led by artist Yu-Chen Wang, and hosted by Castlefield Gallery Director & Artistic Director, Helen Wewiora.
For the May Castlefield Gallery Associates event, artist Yu-Chen Wang will lead the session, sharing her approach to securing and making the most of artist residency opportunities for her practice and career to date.
Many of Yu-Chen’s projects have been developed through residencies, field research, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations, site-responsive exhibitions, and public engagement. All of these are vital processes for developing her artistic practice—mapping, navigating, and connecting.
With a track record of participation in exciting and a diversity of residency programmes, (from science to collections and community contexts), including UAL Decolonising Arts Institute (London, 2023-24), Metal (Peterborough, 2019-21), Taipei Artist Village (2019), Grand Union (Birmingham, 2018), Seoul Museum of Art (2017), Drawing Room (London, 2016-17) and Science and Industry Museum (Manchester, 2015), if you are interested in artist residencies – securing your first or honing your approach to them, then do not miss this session.
More about Yu-Chen Wang
Taiwanese-British artist, Yu-Chen Wang’s work asks fundamental questions about human identity at a key point in history, where ecosystems and technosystems have become inextricably intertwined. She has a long-standing interest in the entangled relationship between land, history, and identity.
Her work is largely informed by the history of places, collective memories, personal stories, and relationships with different localities and communities: from Manchester’s textile and railway industries, Birmingham’s canal networks, Liverpool’s observation and maritime navigation, CERN’s particle physics research, South Yorkshire and East Anglia’s peatlands and, most recently Taiwan’s mangrove forests.
She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, for example with Tate Modern (London, 2024), Drawing Biennial (London, 2024), Le lieu unique (Nantes, 2022), MoCA Taipei (2020), Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn, 2020), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, 2020), Science Gallery London (2019), Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) (2019), FACT (Liverpool, 2018, 2017), CFCCA (Manchester, 2016, solo show), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2016, solo show), Manchester Art Gallery (2016), and Taipei Biennial (2014).
Yu-Chen received the Honorary Mention, Collide International Award, Arts at CERN (Geneva, 2018) and subsequently delivered a new commission co-produced by the Science-Art Network for New Exhibitions and Research (ScANNER) for a 3-year EU touring programme. She is an Associate Lecturer in BA Drawing and MA Sculpture at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London.
Images
Banner:
- Yu-Chen Wang, How We Are Where We Are, 2024, installation view at Tate Modern.
Developed through Transforming Collections practice research residencies (2023-24), UAL Decolonising Arts Institute in collaboration with UAL Creative Computing Institute, in partnership with Tate.
From top to bottom:
- Yu-Chen Wang, We aren’t able to prove that just yet, but we know it’s out there, 2018-20, production still.
Developed through Collide International Awards 2018, Arts at CERN and FACT Liverpool.
- Yu-Chen Wang.
