Yu'an curates participatory exhibitions, public programmes rooted in transnational research, support artist development and project actulisation.
Founder of LOA Gallery and KUA publication, 1/4 of AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art & Research)
Programme/ writing
Podcast Guestspeaker #16 流动的主体：离散、档案与身份的重构 (Displacement,atchives and the reconstruction of Identity, 2025)
Writing workshop lead 'To Whom, Writing in Tongue…'at Delfina Foundation (2025)
Book Launch and creative coda contributor for 'I Will Pay to Make It Bigger'by Ahren Warner, Prototype Publishing (2024)
Essay'Colomboscope 2024: Biennial as Import, Forest as Export', Art Asia Pacific (2024)
Guest Lecturer for Contemporary Art and the Global MA Module SOAS University (2024)
Artist talk as part of AFSAR on commisioned film for 'Green Snake' Taikwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2023)
Copy Edit and Co-research for Film ' The Happy Hippos and the Sad Peacocks' (2023)
Public reading of KUA 02 Artist who writes at Camden Art Centre (2023)
Proxy Conference: Collaborative Research through Gameplay (2023)
Art Review: Could The Global Artworld Afford Diversity? (2022)
Chisenhale Gallery: KUA 01: Re-Integration public launch event (2022) Video Documentation
Asymmetry Curatorial Writing Fellowship: Three Questions (2021) Journal (2022)
Pose: This closure: Independent art spaces in response to the pandemic, Etut Study session (2020)
Guest lecture at NTUartfest 台大藝術季: Cultural Landscape in Everyday Conversation (2015)
Press
KUA issue 01 Re-Integration featured on Delfina Foundation (2022)// Sluice on Leave Of Absence Gallery (Video & full article in print)(2021), Meet Leave of Absence LOA Gallery, Gallery girl (2019)// Micro residency KALTBLUT(2017)// Project Artroulette: Hackney wicked (2013), GQ Taiwan (2015), Art Emperor 非池中藝術網 (Video, 2015)// Smartphone Party 2.0 (2015) Faktory
Ongoing Open Call
Publication: KUA 03: Intimacy ➞ Submit your pitch 📕
Oral interviews: Relocating back 'home' after being away for more than ten years? ➞ Tell your Re-Integration story 🎙️
Key projects >>>
Proxy Conference: In Forest (2023)
Single channel video, Stereo Sound, Color, 35:04 min
Produced by Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR) co-authored with DAVRA
Commissioned by Green Snake: women-centred ecologies at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.
Curated by Kathryn Weir and Xue Tan. Exhibition: 19 December 2023 - 31 March 2024.
Later exhibited at 2024 Asia Bianniel (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), In the Forest (인미공 Insa Art Space, 2024) and screened at Bangkok Kunsthalle (2024)
KUA02: Displacement
Published May 2023
The issue explores the displaced ecology and human-made objects by mapping their interconnected transportation routes. Ten contributors with connections to multiple homelands, shared their research materials, essays and artworks. Get a copy
Contributors: Shiraz Bayjoo, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle, Alia Farid, Corrina Goutos, Bianca Hlywa, Boda Kamukea, Dr. Manhua Li, Lydia Ourahmane, Hana K. Ohnewehr, Soyoon Ryu, Jo Ying Peng.
Departed (from a place we’ve never been), 2019
LOA Gallery, London, UK
Curated by Yu'an Huang
Exhibited artists: Lawrence Lek, J D Rooney, Tabitha Swanson, James Tabbush, Syan MC Yan.
