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 class parts into my ceramic work by collaborating with BGC Glass Studio in Bangkok.
Read more about the work here.
Simose Art Museum
World most beautiful museum by Prix Versailles, 2024
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2025 Hiroshima, Japan
“Ambient, Environment, Circumstances — The Typography of Contemporary Art —” is Simose Art Museum’s first contemporary art exhibition.
Featured on Japan Times:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/05/15/art/simose-art-museum-contemporary/
Leeum Museum of Art
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
