Myanmar artist, Soe Yu Nwe’s cross-cultural experience has inspired her to reflect upon identity through making. She creates hybridized beings that are fluid, fragile and fragmented. Through transfiguration of emotional landscape by poetically depicting nature and body in parts, she explores the idea of displacement, her family's migration history from Yunnan, China and the complexities of individual identity.
Soe Yu was named in Forbes 30 Under 30, Art & Style List of 2019. Her work has been acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery (QAGOMA) in Brisbane, Australia and the British Museum in the United Kingdom.
Currently, Soe Yu is setting up her studio in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Her work will be shown in "The Spirits of Maritime Crossing," a collateral event at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Thailand Biennale
2023 Chiang Rai, Thailand
I created a new body of work for Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai at Doy Din Dang Pottery Studio. In this project, I am incorporating glass into my ceramic work by collaborating with BGC Glass Studio in Bangkok.
World most beautiful museum by Prix Versailles, 2024
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2025 Hiroshima, Japan
Exhibited at:
“Ambient, Environment, Circumstances — The Typography of Contemporary Art —” is Simose Art Museum’s first contemporary art exhibition.
Co-curated by Yoko Negami
Featured on Japan Times:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/05/15/art/simose-art-museum-contemporary/
2024, Seoul, Korea
As a thematic exhibition, 2024 Art Spectrum 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 takes as its starting point the states that artists belonging to the millennial and post-millennial generation have developed a different sense of the physical world while living in an era where experiences through screens such as the Internet, games, and movies have become commonplace.
Artistic Director
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Curators
Hyo Gyoung Jeon, Jiwon Yu
2024, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaiming Her is a project by women about women. Yet it is not a feminist manifesto, but a bridge to foster dialogue between patriarchal social expectations and self-ownership. As such the show hinges on the idea of disobedience from a cultural and physical perspective, on one hand questioning social myths based on gender and race stereotypes, and on the other challenging the idea of the transforming female body from motherhood to objectification, and how body parts are understood as signifiers that define and precede female identity. To do so, Disobedient Bodies: Reclaiming Her brings together eight female artists of different generations from Asia, each presenting newly commissioned and existing works spanning painting, photography, sculpture and video installation to examine narratives of emancipation and autonomy. While some of the works acutely emphasize the inherent condition of the female body as the beginning of all things—the vessel, the giver, the fighter—other works challenge traditional social order to explore gender diversity and the right to subjective choices over our own body.
Curator
Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani
