Rain Wu (* 1987, Tainan) is a Taiwanese artist and architect based in London. Her work is conceptually driven and materialises in different forms and scales from drawing, sculpture, food performance to architectural installation. She works with perishable materials to instigate discussions around our manifold relationships with nature.
She graduated from Royal College of Art and University College London. Her artwork has been exhibited in Sharjah Biennial (2017), Taipei Biennial (2016), The Palestinian Museum (2017), London Design Biennale (2016), Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), Hong-Gah Museum (2023), Manar Abu Dhabi (2023); she was in residence at the Design Museum London (2016) and The Van Eyck (2018-9).
She is currently a lecturer at University of the Arts London and Goldsmiths University.
2022 16 November: Food Cosmogonies: Expeditions 2022-23, online course run by The Gramounce (online)
2022 31 October: Climate Challenge: Creative Collaborations project launch lecture, organised by UAL CCW Design Schools x Design Museum London (UK)
2022 23-25 October: Abu Dhabi Cultural Summit (AE)
2022 2 October: Grottesco Torino (IT) In conversation with Federico Campagna, organised by Matt Didemus.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Antidote/ Informality Gallery, Cromwell Place London (UK)
2023 One with the Soil, One with the Cloud/ Manar Abu Dhabi (UAE)
2023 As Above, So Below/Taiwan International Video Art exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei (TW)
2023 Installation design for Mori by Su Yu Hsin/ Paradoks Leipzig (DE) 2023 Simultaneous Melodies/ GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (UK)
2022 As Above, So Below/ Porto Architecture Film Festival (PT)
2022 Exhibition design for Mori by Su Yu Hsin/ UCCA (CN)
2022 Festa Cipolla/ Villa Lena (IT)
2022 Mycelium Pavilion/ Cambridge Festival (UK)
2022 Hue/ Ecotone of Collective Lives (on Gather.town/ KR)
2021 From Nature group exhibition/ Informality Gallery (UK)
2020 As Above, So Below/ Istanbul Design Biennale (TR)
2020 The New Age Of Humanism/ Spazio Nobile Brussels (BE)
2019 The Sea Rises and Totally Still / Sea Views (FI)
2019 Facsimile Of A Breeze / Walk&Talk Azores (PT)
2019 Simultaneous Melodies/ Corridor Project Space Amsterdam (NL)
2019 We Move Silently Towards The Far Shore /Van Eyck (NL)
2018 From Strata of Memory to Layers of Rock /Fondation Thalie (BE)
2018 The Tea Set /Asia Now, Paris (FR)
2018 The Tea Set /Woodruff Arts Centre, Atlanta Design Festival (US)
2018 Bread /Van Eyck (NL)
2017 The Rock Nobody Could Lift /Keelung Ciao (TW)
2017 Threshold of Being /The Palestinian Museum (Palestine)
2017 Non-Human Narratives /Van Eyck (NL)
2017 Collectivism /Sharjah Biennial 13 (UAE)
2017 Incarnation, Taiwan Pavilion/Somerset House (UK)
2016 The Tea Set, Designers in Residence 2016/Design Museum (UK)