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Lantern Stories
Ongoing

Multi-disciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu brings her nationally touring installation Lantern Stories to the plaza of Memphis’s art museum. Using the iconic shape of Chinese lanterns, Wu applies images of archival photographs to each light that explore Asian-American histories in the US. Through these deeply researched and emotive images, Wu illuminates migration stories while embracing the power of community.
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Artists

Artist
Yu-Wen Wu
Yu-Wen Wu is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Taipei, Taiwan and is based in Boston, MA. She received her B.sc from Brown University in Providence, RI, and an MFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Wu has received numerous awards including the 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Her work is in several private and public collections, and she has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY; the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.: Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA; Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece; Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland;and more.

Curator
Kristin Pedrozo
Kristin Pedrozo is a double fellow, holding the position of Art Bridges Curatorial Fellow while being an ASU-LACMA fellow at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Born in the Philippines, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Kristin received her BFA in studio art at Rhodes College and is now a graduate student studying art history through the ASU-LACMA fellowship, which is a work-while-you study program collaboratively held by Arizona State University and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to culturally diversify the staff and leadership of art museums across the states.









