🏆 Congratulations to #ARTonTHEMART alum Yuge Zhou on winning the 2024 The Joyce Foundation #Artadia Award! Yuge's 2022 projection 'Love Letters' depicted a lively courtship dance. Revisit the projection here: bit.ly/3PZbiVe

📷: Portrait of Yuge Zhou, photo credit Jia Bao Zhou

Congratulations to 2024 Joyce Foundation Artadia Award recipient Yuge Zhou, and congratulations to all of the #Chicago winners. Click the link below to learn more about Artadia & Zhou.

artadia.org/award-city/chi…

I’m so honored and humbled to be named the Joyce Foundation Artadia Award recipient. Thank you Artadia The Joyce Foundation and all those who have supported and inspired my artistic journey ❤️ Can’t wait to continue my new project The Chinese Lady with the funding and support from Artadia!

Showing some works on billboards across Chicago as part of the OVERRIDE program. Thank you EXPO CHICAGO and @chicagodcase for this awesome project!

OVERRIDE is a citywide collaborative public art initiative to exhibit artwork across the central business district from April 1-21

Please join us for the celebration of the launch of Cosmic Rhythms, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Action Lines Media, The Joffrey Ballet, The Adler Planetarium and 150 Media Stream on Wed., April 10th (6-8 pm) at 150 N Riverside.

RSVP below: eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-rhyth…

So honored to be one of the finalists for this year’s Chicago Artadia Awards! 🫶 Artadia

I’ll be giving a brief talk Chicago Cultural Center on 3/28 at 9am about the experience of working with ART on THE MART as part of their Arts, Culture & Tech Town Hall. I’ll also share the BTS process of creating Love Letters with my amazing team members. The event is open to the public.

Thanks to everyone for stopping by and checking out my installation “Underground Circuit” INTERREALITY. Curated by Mieke Marple and produced by bitforms gallery PR For Artists, the exhibition features works by 35 international artists through 3/18, go see it if you are in LA 🌴

Thanks to Dovetail Magazine and Kate Mothes for the beautiful article about my work ♥️
dovetailmag.com/2024/02/yuge-z…

#CosmicRhythms opens to public today AdlerPlanet. So proud to see how dance, astronomy & video art came together by the brilliant teams of Action Lines & The Joffrey Ballet & Big Foot Media. Grateful to be part of this project and to have created the video collage for its finale 🪐

Dropped off the archival package of #LoveLetters today MoCP. So honored that the work has entered its permanent collection ♥️💙

Fun opening night Arts Club of Chicago ♥️
Thank you all for coming. The show is up until Feb 21.

Showing a new version of Trampoline Color Exercise Arts Club of Chicago as part of their member’s show. Opening reception tonight 1/23 at 6pm and open to the public. Stop by if you are around 🤸‍♂️🤸

Look forward to sending off these two works for upcoming exhibition & acquisition…and cleaning up my workspace 😅

If you are in Chicago on Dec 31st, #LoveLetters will be shown as part of a special New Year’s Eve program beginning at 7:30pm CT alongside a selection of fan favorites from ART on THE MART five-year program ☃️✨

More info on how to visit: artonthemart.com/news/new-years…

A deeply personal interview with Art Yourself Atelier where I discuss the trajectory of my work, studying art School of the Art Institute of Chicago…and more importantly, a sense of belonging up against the struggles with identity as a Chinese artist in America. Check it out! 🙌
artyourselfatelier.com/interview/yuge…

BTS footage of #LoveLetters in the blazing sun and driving snow of Chicago. Deeply appreciate choreographer Hannah Santistevan, dancers Sam Crouch, Rebecca Huang for helping bring this story to life. “LOVE: Still Not the Lesser” MoCP is up until 12/22. Please go see it!

“Underground Circuit” at exhibition “Interreality” where their second opening will take place this Saturday at Desmond Tower in LA from 6-9pm PST.

Thank you bitforms gallery Mieke Marple PR For Artists for a beautiful production and everyone involved in putting the show together!

I'll be giving an artist talk next Thursday 11/9 at 5:30pm CT at the Museum of Contemporary Photography MoCP with Jorge Ariel Escobar about our works in “LOVE: Still Not the Lesser”. Hope to see you all there! ♥️

mocp.org/events/artist-…

Preparing for a workshop I’m giving today at the National Academy of Art in Sofia, excited to meet the students! 👩‍💻✨