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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 in Atlanta, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Hollis Taggart Gallery in New York, Shanghai Painting and Sculpture Art Institute Museum (SPSI) in Shanghai, Marie's Art Museum. 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.
The paintings arise from a dialogue between Eastern tradition and Western abstraction, where gesture becomes both language and emotion. Rooted in the discipline of Chinese calligraphy, Wu translates the rhythm of ink and brush into the expansive field of painting, allowing line and form to move beyond legibility into pure expression. Each mark holds the tension of intention and accident, meditation and release. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, Wu approaches the canvas as a living surface, an arena where energy accumulates through layers of motion. Color pulses like breath, strokes carve pathways of silence and eruption, and space opens to invite viewers into a state between recognition and abstraction. Wu is drawn to the physicality of painting as well as its capacity to hold memory, cultural inheritance, and the immediacy of the present. Immigrated to the States in 2013 from Shanghai, her practice is informed by her Shanghai upbringing and her life in the States, navigating identities that are both distant and intertwined. In merging the atmospheric freedom of Abstract Expressionism with the meditative rigor of calligraphy, she seeks to create works that resonate across cultures, paintings as visual poems, echoing the timeless rhythm of ink yet speaking in a contemporary voice.
AWARDS:
2025 Finalist in the 3rd Contemporary Young Artists Biennial Exhibition, Shanghai Painting and Sculpture Institute Art Museum (SPSI).
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 WEST BUND ART FAIR, Shanghai
2025 HOLLIS TAGGART GALLERY, New York, NY
Threads of Belonging
2025 KAI LIN ART, Atlanta, GA
Mythos
2025 SHANGHAI PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INSTITUTE ART MUSEUM (SPSI), Shanghai
The 3rd Contemporary Young Artists Biennial Exhibition
2025 TIANJIN ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS MUSEUM, Tianjin
The 3rd Contemporary Young Artists Biennial Exhibition
2025 COCA-COLA HEADQUARTER, Atlanta, GA
AAPI Talents Exhibition
2025 IM GALLERY, Guangzhou
Three Thresholds
2025 THOMAS DEANS FINE ART, Atlanta, GA
Summer Pleasures
2025 MARIE'S ART MUSEUM, Shanghai
Until Shadows Emerge
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Liam Otero. WhiteHot Magazine,
“Threads of Belonging: Ten Emerging Asian Women Artists at Hollis Taggart Downtown” Web. Nov 7, 2025
2024 Annikka Olsen. ARTNET, “In Defense of the Summer Group Show” Web. Aug 28, 2024
2023 Martinez, Chris. CanvasRebel Magazine, “Stories & Insights, Meet Ivy Wu” Web. Feb 16, 2023
2022 Tan, David. VoyageATL Magazine, “Daily Inspiration: Conversations with Ivy Wu.” Web. Nov 9, 2022
2022 Kapheim, Sara. Visionary Artistry Magazine, “Ivy Wu: Candid Contemporary” Web. Mar 21, 2022
2020 Cruz, Chamian. Gwinnett Daily Post, “Suwanee Native’s Artwork Recognized
at SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival for Uniting Community.” Web. Jun 5, 2020
2020 Desmile, Lola. Whitewall Art, “SCAD’s Annual Sidewalk Arts Festival Expands its Boundaries.”
Web. May 27, 2020
