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
Painting, for me, stems from a direct gaze upon the past and present. The striving to grasp indescribable sentiments is the very desire to create. Transient and disquieting life arouse tenderness and melancholy in our spiritual yearnings; moments of intimacy and malaise are distilled and sublimated by the act of painting.
Painting live with a process of introspection. In contemplation, I dive deeply into myself, embarking on secret voyages within the soul, oriented toward a lost time and space, those shards that were once parts of me coalescing within me and then dissipating. Sometimes loss is unavoidable; memories of times once filled me while left with sorrow, and our relationship to history is always vulnerable and ephemeral. Reflection takes place in the present, attempting to remain in contact with the past, to preserve an awareness of existence from the fragments of time.
Millennial Chinese objects and spaces create a closed narrative environment by fusing memory and imagination, providing viewers with a doorway for contemplation. Spaces that feel both familiar and remote, with still lifes personified in their presence—concrete yet metaphorical. These subjects, which are balanced between realism and symbolism, reveal the inner, hidden character of existence through seeing. Painting becomes a practice of salvaging and reassembling the self, suspended between obscurity and beauty.
绘画对我来说，诞生于对过去与当下的直接注视。努力的抓住一些难以描述的感受就是创作的欲望。与存在转瞬即逝的照面唤起了我们在精神渴望中的温柔和忧郁情绪，亲密与不适的瞬间在绘画的过程中被凝练和升华。
绘画的过程是一个回顾的过程。在内省中沉潜到自身，一个个隐秘的旅程在心灵中展开，以一个消失的时空为方向，那些所谓是我的一部分的东西在自身那里凝聚又突然消散。或许失去是必然的，失落感伴随着那些曾经将自我充实起来的时间，而我们与历史的联系总是脆弱而稍纵即逝。回顾是从现在出发，为的是与过去保持接触，在时间的碎屑中打捞存在的感受。
将回忆与想象融为一体，中国千禧年物品和空间作为一个封闭的叙事环境，为观众提供一个内省的沉思窗口。似曾相识的空间，既是亲近的又是遥远的，静物人格化的在场，既是具象的又是隐喻的。介于写实主义和象征主义之间，这些对象在沉思与凝视中揭露出存在的内在而隐秘的面容。绘画成为一场对自我的打捞与拼凑，介于晦暗与美之间。
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
Painting, for me, stems from a direct gaze upon the past and present. The striving to grasp indescribable sentiments is the very desire to create. Transient and disquieting life arouse tenderness and melancholy in our spiritual yearnings; moments of intimacy and malaise are distilled and sublimated by the act of painting.
Painting live with a process of introspection. In contemplation, I dive deeply into myself, embarking on secret voyages within the soul, oriented toward a lost time and space, those shards that were once parts of me coalescing within me and then dissipating. Sometimes loss is unavoidable; memories of times once filled me while left with sorrow, and our relationship to history is always vulnerable and ephemeral. Reflection takes place in the present, attempting to remain in contact with the past, to preserve an awareness of existence from the fragments of time.
Millennial Chinese objects and spaces create a closed narrative environment by fusing memory and imagination, providing viewers with a doorway for contemplation. Spaces that feel both familiar and remote, with still lifes personified in their presence—concrete yet metaphorical. These subjects, which are balanced between realism and symbolism, reveal the inner, hidden character of existence through seeing. Painting becomes a practice of salvaging and reassembling the self, suspended between obscurity and beauty.
绘画对我来说，诞生于对过去与当下的直接注视。努力的抓住一些难以描述的感受就是创作的欲望。与存在转瞬即逝的照面唤起了我们在精神渴望中的温柔和忧郁情绪，亲密与不适的瞬间在绘画的过程中被凝练和升华。
绘画的过程是一个回顾的过程。在内省中沉潜到自身，一个个隐秘的旅程在心灵中展开，以一个消失的时空为方向，那些所谓是我的一部分的东西在自身那里凝聚又突然消散。或许失去是必然的，失落感伴随着那些曾经将自我充实起来的时间，而我们与历史的联系总是脆弱而稍纵即逝。回顾是从现在出发，为的是与过去保持接触，在时间的碎屑中打捞存在的感受。
将回忆与想象融为一体，中国千禧年物品和空间作为一个封闭的叙事环境，为观众提供一个内省的沉思窗口。似曾相识的空间，既是亲近的又是遥远的，静物人格化的在场，既是具象的又是隐喻的。介于写实主义和象征主义之间，这些对象在沉思与凝视中揭露出存在的内在而隐秘的面容。绘画成为一场对自我的打捞与拼凑，介于晦暗与美之间。
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 The Bird Has Flown, AW Space, Nanjing, China
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 New American Painting MFA Issue NO. 177, New York
2025 Rebecca Wu, Made in Bed Magazine, London
2025 Xiangjie Rebecca Wu: Joy of Yesterday, New York Weekly, New York
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 The Bird Has Flown, AW Space, Nanjing, China
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 New American Painting MFA Issue NO. 177, New York
2025 Rebecca Wu, Made in Bed Magazine, London
2025 Xiangjie Rebecca Wu: Joy of Yesterday, New York Weekly, New York
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