Jiayue Yu

Biography

Jiayue Yu is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator working across photography, 3D rendering, installation and video. Her practice explores how desire, uncertainty and exhaustion take shape within contemporary socioeconomic conditions, surfacing through ordinary materials, urban environments and everyday moments.

She participated in the 2026 Summer Program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is the recipient of the 2026 JGS Photography Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the 2022 LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award. Her work has also been shortlisted for the 2023 Urbanautica Institute Awards and selected as a finalist for the 2020 Three Shadows Photography Award.

Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally at the Padova International Photography Festival, Italy; Colorado Photographic Arts Center, U.S.; Microscope Gallery, U.S.; Light Work, U.S.; Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China; Fujifilm X-Space, China; Studio Kura, Japan; and PhEST Photo Festival, Italy. Her work has been published, featured and reviewed by LensCulture, Lenscratch, Chinese Photographers, Brooklyn Review, Fotofilmic JRNL, Fisheye Magazine, and Photoworks U.K., among others.

Education

• M.F.A., Syracuse University
• B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago