Born in Nanjing, China
Represented by Morton Fine Art
solo & two-person EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Upcoming), Solo Exhibition, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2024 It Depends, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2023 Otherly, Widener Gallery, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2023 Ai Yo!, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2022 👀 🎨 🏜, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2022 Jenny Wu: In the Aggregate, Buchanan Partners Art Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2021 Good (GREAT), Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2021 Material Reality, Two-Person Exhibition with Sherry Trachtman, Fred Schnider Gallery of Art, Arlington, VA
2020 Time Is Running Out, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2020 YUGE Dilemma, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2019 Recycle, Rinse, Repeat, Barry Gallery, Arlington, VA
2018 Wall: The Arbitrariness of Borders, Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2018 A Sociology in Layers, Two-Person Exhibition with Michael Holt, Margaret W. and Joseph L. Fisher Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2015 Jenny Wu: Grown Down Playground, Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
2013 Diffusion, Surel’s Place, Garden City, ID
2012 Jenny Wu: Landscape Perceptions, Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2011 LOST, Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
SELECTED Group EXHIBITIONS
2024
Textures, juried by Katherine Simdon and Monica Miller, Overt Space Gallery, Stoughton, WI
Art of Water III, James May Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
58th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Juried by Mark Cowardin, Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
7th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition: Timelaspe, Juried by Laura Blereau, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
13th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Juried by Taekyeom Lee, Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2024 Winter Juried Exhibition, Juried by Don Kimes, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY
Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award, Juried by Lauren Haynes, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2023
Sculpture Now: Art 2 the 3rd Dimension, Juried by Chris Kane, Art League Rhode Island Gallery, Pawtucket, RI
RED, Whitecube Contemporary, Chicago, IL
What We Do After: CAPP New Arrivals 2023, Stamp Gallery, University Of Maryland, College Park, MD
CT Women Artists 2023 National Open Juried Show, Barnes-Franklin Gallery, Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT
Salon Style: Small Works, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
45th Harper College National Juried Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL
Innovations in Paintings, Juried by Derek Reese, Pittsburgh Seen, Pittsburgh, PA
32nd Annual Juried Competition, Juried by David Cohen, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Adams County Arts Council’s 19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, juried by Lauren Nye, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Obsession, juried by David Janssen Jr, Third Street Gallery, Moscow, ID
The Barlow Gilotty Collection, Katzen Museum, Washington, D.C.
Motley Cruise, juried by Bernard Williams, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Miniature Monumental, juried by Patricia Miranda, The Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2022
18th Annual Small Works Show, juried by Johnny Thornton, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Wonder, Pour-d, Rockford, MI
The Smalls Show, Gallery 46, Baton Rouge, LA
Sculpture NOW 2022, Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD
What a Relief, Phillips@THEARC, Washington, D.C.
2021
Afterglow, The Centerpiece, Raleigh, NC
Dot Dot Dot Online Exhibition, Sarracenia Gallery, Huntington Park, CA
Chautauqua Visual Arts Gala Auction, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
WE ARE HOME, Curated by Emon Surakitkoson and Amy Lokoff, Homme, Washington, D.C.
New Appalachia Mixed Exhibition, curated by Kyle Houser, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Small Works Juried Exhibit, Jag Gallery, Key West, FL
Ritual!, Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
ArtComp44, The Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Wreck-oning: National Online Juried Exhibit, juried by Rai Arthur-Mensah, Cade Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
Spring Juried Show, juried by Sylvia White, realART, Agoura Hills, CA
All Abstract, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
Devil Is in the Details, Chautauqua Visual Arts Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
2020
DC Art Now 2020, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C.
New Directions 2020: 36th annual National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art, juried by Nic Brierre Aziz, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Tiny Art, Big Attitude, Vancouver Art Space, Vancouver, WA
Contemporary Art Miami 2020, Small Format, Cowry Art Studio, North Miami, FL
GALEX 54 National Juried Exhibition, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
Abstracts Matter, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Dump Trump, Stola Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2019
Open to Interpretation, curated by Michaeline Sander, The Yard, Washington, D.C.
Open 30 International Juried Exhibition, juried by Jesus De La Rosa, Laredo College, Laredo, TX
FL3TCH3R Exhibit, juried by Sue Coe, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
32nd Annual Northern National Art Competition, juried by Scott Stulen, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
America is …, juried by Rachel Adams, Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Jen Mergel, and Jennifer M. Williams, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Artist and Location, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
The Power of Small Things, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
Currents, juried by Mima Begovic, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA
SYNERGY, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C.
PROUD+, juried by Rakeem Cunningham, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA
A Different Vision, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA
Textures, Kavanagh Gallery, Charles, IL
Perspectives: AMERICA, Specto Art Space, Bridgewater, VA
Notes of Color, juried by Mollie Berger Salah, Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
Small Works 2019, AlterWork, New York, NY
National Juried Exhibit, juried by Sandy Guttman, The Delaplaine, Frederick, MD
March 150, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Women’s Works, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
The American Dream, The Arts Illiana Gallery, Haute, IN
The Transformative Power of the Written Word, The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Political Discourse, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA
2018
The Thespis Project, Thessaloniki, Greece
Small Works 2018, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, New York
RED, juried by Dan Byers, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Petit, Emerge Gallery & Art Space, Saugerties, NY
FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
RECOLLECTION: Celebrating 15 Years of Exhibitions at BlackRock Center for the Arts, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Rockville, MD
Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
13th National juried Exhibition, juried by Lucía Sanromán, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2018 Emerging Artists Exhibition, juried by Kate Mothes, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition 280, juried by Laura Roulet, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
ONE: Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Addressing Power, juried by Abbey Hepner, Leslie Martin, Katelyn Bladel, and Aziza Murra, Creative Advocacy, Albuquerque, NM
Artina 2018, Introspective, juried by Cecilia Wichmann, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
Tiny But Mighty, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
Passages, Juried by Adriana Ospina, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2017
Marymount University Faculty Exhibition, Arlington, VA
ThinkSmall9, Ninth Biennial International Miniature Invitational Exhibition, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia
Transformer 14th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit Party, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
10x10x10xTieton, Mighty Tieton Warehouse, Tieton, WA
not BIG(4), MS Rezny Gallery, Lexington, KY
Art of Engagement, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Northern Virginia Community College Loudoun Campus Faculty Exhibition, Sterling, VA
Performing the Border, Alper Initiative for Washington Art, curated by Megan Rook-Koepsel, Katzen Museum, Washington, D.C.
Sculpture REMIX 2017: Craft/Technology/Arttt, Popcorn Gallery, Glen Echo, MD
Focal Point, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2016
VisArts Faculty Exhibition, VisArts, Rockville, MD
Transformer 13th Annual Silent Auction, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
10x10x10xTieton, Mighty Tieton Warehouse, Tieton, WA
Arts as Politics, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Off the Wall, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2015
Post-Graduate Residency Exhibition, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Transformer 12th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit Party, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
Academy 2015, Connersmith Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Asian Heritage Month Exhibition, Capital One, Richmond, VA
E Pluribus Unum, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
Blueprint, Katzen Museum, Washington, D.C.
Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Assignment: Happy Birthday, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2014
Small Wonders, Juried by Marcus Civin, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Transformer 11th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit Party, Washington, D.C.
Fifteenth Annual 5 by 7 Show, Woodstock Byriclidd, Woodstock, NY
Micro Machines, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
Champion Divers, Katzen Museum, Washington, D.C.
2013
Natures at Work, A group show by the artists of CAC Woodside, Troy, NY
Drawing from Perception VII, Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton, OH
Fourteenth Annual 5 by 7 Show, Woodstock, NY
2012
Moving Pictures, Picture This Gallery, Peoria, IL
Thirteenth Annual 5 by 7 Show, Woodstock, NY
Third Annual Gala Art Exhibit, Geneva, NY
2010
Chautauqua: A Continuum of Creativity, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
RECESS: Surviving the End of Your World, Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
AWARDS & HONORS
2024 Honorable Mention, 58th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Juried by Mark Cowardin, Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
2024 Third Place Award, Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award, Juried by Lauren Haynes, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2024 Best in Show, 7th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition, Juried by Laura Blereau, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2023 Best of Show, Adams County Arts Council’s 19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, juried by Lauren Nye, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA
2023 Honorable Mention, Miniature Monumental, juried by Patricia Miranda, The Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2022 Juror’s Choice Award, 18th Annual Small Works Show, juried by Johnny Thornton, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Award of Merit, FL3TCH3R Exhibit, juried by Sue Coe
2019 Juror’s Choice Award, America is …, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2019 Award of Merit, Textures, Kavanagh Gallery, Charles, IL
2018 Juror’s Choice Award, 2018 Emerging Artists Exhibition, juried by Kate Mothes
2016 First Prize, Off the Wall, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2015 Juror's Choice Award, Small Wonders
2015 Stanley G. Wolpoff Award, American University, Washington, D.C.
2013 Juror's Award, Drawing from Perception VII
Babs Van Swearingen Award
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & RESIDENCIES
2024-25 Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2022 The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant
2021 The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant
2021 DC Art Bank Program Acquisition Grant
2020 The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant
2020 DC Art Bank Program Acquisition Grant
2018-2021 Touchstone Foundation Artist Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
2015 Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2014 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (Full Fellowship Award)
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (Full Fellowship Award)
2013 Surel’s Place, Boise, ID
2013 Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy NY (Partial Financial Award)
2012 Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Woodstock NY (Full Fellowship from the Pollock Krasner Foundation)
2012 Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL
FAIRS
2024 Future Fair, with Morton Fine Art, Chelsea, NY
2024 Foundations, with Morton Fine Art, Artsy (Online)
PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES
2024 Topic: Community Building in the Painting Classrooms, Session: Expanding Spheres: Collaborations in Classrooms, Labs, Institutions, and Communities, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
2023 Session: Speculative Futures, Bicentennial Fall Symposium: Memory, Presence and Possibility, Trinity College, Hartford, C
2022 Senior Seminar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2020 Beyond Making: Strategies for Success, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
2019 Senior Seminar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2019 Professional Practice Seminar, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2018 Innovations, Marymount University, Arlington, VA
2018 Six Years, Houghton House, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2017 Free Parking featuring the artists in Performing the Border, Alper Initiative for Washington Art, Katzen Museum, Washington, D.C.
2013 Color, Surel’s Place, Garden City, ID
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022 - Present, Trinity College, Hartford, CT - Visiting Assistant Professor
2016 - 2022, American University, Washington, DC - Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
2017 - 2019, Marymount University, Arlington, VA - Adjunct Faculty
2018, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY - Visiting Faculty
CURATORIAL PROJECTS/Gallery Management
2022
Introspection, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2019
Seasonal Installations, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, VA
Quietly Powerful, Sense Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Transformative Power of the Written Word, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2018
Documented Humans, Alexandria, VA
2017 - 2022
Gallery Manager + Curator, Goodwin House, Alexandria, VA
2015
icono-pop!, Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Thank You for Applying, Gallery 252, Washington, D.C.
Peephole, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
selected BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Anna Carldon, Future Fair 2024 Is Gen Z Approved, White Hot Magazine, May 10, 2024
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Artist pushes her envelope of experimentation, The Washington Post, March 8, 2024
Inside Jenny Wu’s “It Depends”: A Continuation of Creative Exploration, A Women’s Thing, March 4, 2024
2023
Dilpreet Bhullar, Jenny Wu's sculptural paintings are an extension of her time-based practice, Stir World, March 6, 2023
Christine Ji, Ai Yo!: Jenny Wu’s exhibit brings new energy to Morton Fine Art, Georgetown Voice, March 2, 2023
Emma Francois, Sabrina for Valentine’s Day and More Best Bets for Feb. 9-15, Washington City Paper, February 9, 2023
2022
Stephanie Rudig, Ian Sweet at Songbyrd, Jenny Wu’s Art at Touchstone, and More Best Bets for July 28-Aug. 3, Washington City Paper, July 28, 2022
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Hammocks focus on history, culture and some rest, The Washington Post, July 24, 2022
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Delicate dominates at annual sculpture show, The Washington Post, May 27, 2022
2021
Eric Goeres, Nowak’s JAG Gallery Mounts an Uplifting Small Works Show, KONK Life, May 1, 2021
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Rejuvenating the obsolete into unconventional art, The Washington Post, February 14, 2021
2019
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber, The Washington Post, August 16, 2019
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Pulsating dramas of light and sound, The Washington Post, July 12, 2019
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol, The Washington Post, March 29, 2019
2018
Tamia Mallory, Torpedo Factory’s ‘Passages’ shines light on immigration, Northern Virginia Magzine, February 8, 2018
2016
Eric Hope, East City Artnotes: Art as Politics at Touchstone Gallery, East City Art, August 11, 2016
2015
Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Inspired by their homelands and beyond, The Washington Post, May 1, 2015
2014
Jessica Konigsberg, Permission to play, Museums with Impact, November 6, 2014
MEDIA
2023 Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST - Episode 8
2022 Superstition Review Issue 30, Arizona State University
2022. The Truth Is In This Art, Podcast by Rob Lee
2021 Meet An Artist, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2021 Embracing Arlington Arts Podcast, produced by Janet Kopenhaver
2019 Interview, Great Day Washington, August 1, 2019
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Magically Found $768,000,000,000, Contemporary Art Purchasing Program (CAPP), University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Acquired 2023
Have Always Existed and Will Always Exist and Letting Referees Openly Bet On Games, Boston Consulting Group, Washington, D.C. Both acquired 2022
I Have Been Watching People Making Phone Calls My Entire Life, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. Acquired 2022
Why It’s A Holiday, Inova Hospital, Fairfax, VA. Acquired 2022
On Site Quickly! DC Art Bank. Washington, D.C. Acquired 2020
GREAT Economic Numbers. DC Art Bank. Washington, D.C. Acquired 2020
We must get smart. DC Art Bank. Washington, D.C. Acquired 2019
It’s about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. DC Art Bank. Washington, D.C. Acquired 2019
Untitled. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. Acquired 2012
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
"Siri Google Alexa" Is A Complete Sentence, Renown Regional Medical Center-Tahoe Surgery, Reno, NV, Acquired 2022
EDUCATION
MFA Studio Art, American University, 2015
B.A. Studio Art and in Architectural Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2008