Anne Wu works primarily in sculpture and installation. Her practice draws from the architectural structures and decorative elements commonly found in existing urban landscapes—particularly Chinese immigrant neighborhoods, and explores personal history, cultural narrative, and collective identity. Growing up in New York’s Flushing Chinatown, she saw her neighborhood manifest the impossibility of being in two places at once, teetering somewhere neither here (America) nor there (China). Birthed from anti-Chinese racism and legally-imposed borders, Chinatowns are symbolic gateways, physically and metaphorically connecting homeland and adopted land. This image of passage and movement fuels her sculptures and installations, which reference architectural forms that behave in similarly transitional ways.

Wu’s work has been exhibited at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon (New Lebanon, NY), and The New York Public Library (New York, NY), among others. She participated in the NARS Satellite Residency on Governors Island (2020) and BHQFU Emerging Artist Residency (2015). Wu received a BFA from Cornell University in 2013 and an MFA from Yale University in 2020.