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Ivy Wu was granted the Honor Award Scholarship by Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to study in her graduate school, received Master of Fine Art in painting. Her artworks were featured in The Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA GA), AAPI Talents Exhibition in Coca-Cola's headquarter, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Hollis Taggart Gallery in New York, Kenna Xu Gallery in Shenzhen, West Bund Art & Design in Shanghai and other exhibitions. She is the winner of 39th SCAD Sidewalk Art Festival, SCAD Alumni Atelier Ambassador, reported in Whitewall Art Magazine, ARTNET, featured as a passionate contemporary artist on Visionary Artistry Magazine and other publications. Her paintings have been collected in private, cooperate and public collections in North America, Asia and Europe. She is an Assistant Professor of Art, teaching painting in the Kennesaw State University's College of the Arts, living and creating in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wu embraces vivacious brushstrokes in her abstract gestural work, vibrates with explosive colors and sense of lines. Channeling her creative energy onto large-scaled surfaces, she paints and smudges paints rapidly in an intuitive way. She finds a range of inspirations in nature and personal narrative. Beyond visual culture, the immediate surroundings, the complexity of lived experiences lies the heart of her practice. She paints herself as a silhouette figure as part of the obscure abstraction. She lives in her work. That is her synaesthetic response to the chaotic but unified world. In the myths of pleasure, the composition hovers on the edge of the abstraction and figuration in an open dimension. A style of automatic painting or blind drawing, with a status of stable and unstable in shapes and colors, rooted in her imagination.
AWARDS:
2024 Alumni Atelier Ambassador, the Savannah College of Art and Design.
2023 Finalist in Biennial Juried Exhibition, Gather VI, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA).
2022 Helen Seydel Memorial Scholarship (ACA).
2020 Spirit Award, the 39th Savannah College of Art and Design Sidewalk Arts Festival.
2020 Honor Award Scholarship, the Savannah College of Art and Design.
2020 Finalist in Juried Annual Exhibition, the Portrait Society of Atlanta.
2019 Finalist in Juried Annual Exhibition, the Portrait Society of Atlanta.
2019 Selected as Artist of the Month in Fulton County library system, Georgia.
2018 Third place, juried exhibition, Out and About, Sewell Mill Culture Center.
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2024 KENNA XU GALLERY, Shenzhen, China
Whispers of Dancing Shadows
2023 GALLERY100, Atlanta, GA
Permeation
2023 FREEMARKET GALLERY, Atlanta, GA
Untapped
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 COCA-COLA HEADQUARTER, Atlanta, GA
Permanent Collection
2025 KENNA XU GALLERY, Shenzhen
Overture
2025 UNIONART-SHANGHAI, Shanghai
Ode to Joy
2024 WEST BUND ART FAIR, Shanghai
2024 HOLLIS TAGGART GALLERY, New York, NY
Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary
2024 MID-TOWN OUTDOOR GALLERY, Atlanta, GA
2024 MARIETTA COBB MUSEUM OF ART (MCMA), Marietta, GA
Metro Montage XXIV
2024 HOLLIS TAGGART GALLERY, New York, NY
National Association of Women Artists (NAWA)
2023 THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA,
Biennial Jury Exhibition, Gather VI
2023 COCA-COLA HEADQUARTER, Atlanta, GA
AAPI Talents, Rise and Thrive
2022 SHE/THEY GALLERY, Santa Ana, CA
What’s In Your Sketchbook
2022 SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Atlanta, GA
Juried Spring Forward
2021 ALPHARETTA ART CENTER，Alpharetta, GA
A Slice of Life
2021 Online via FULTON COUNTY ARTS & CULTURE
Art and Healing in the Time of the Pandemic
2020 Online via SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
39th Sidewalk Art Festival
2020 Online via THE PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF ATLANTA
Gallery of Quarantine Work
2019 SFA GALLERY, Alpharetta, GA
Portrait Society of Atlanta
2019 JOHNS CREEK ART CENTER, Johns Creek, GA
Summer Serendipity
2019 BINDERS GALLERY, Buckhead, GA
Limelight
2018 SEWELL MILL CULTURE CENTER, Sandy Springs, GA
Out and About
2018 ATLANTA ARTIST CENTER, Buckhead, GA
Power Line Exhibition
