Photo credit: Lindsay Wu
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Artist BiographyWen Wen (Cherry) Lu is a multimedia artist interested in exploring the hidden, the small and the forgotten through installation, illustration, and animation. Taking inspiration from her family history, she seeks to combine it with the present experiences of culture, nature, and community to create something that questions.
Her work has been installed in spaces such as parks, bus stops, walkways, and hidden in nooks and crannies. For example, The Seed of Happiness, 2021 for Port Coquitlam Public Art, Isolated, 2020 with Vancouver Public Art, and Hidden Stories, 2019 at Richmond Nature Park. They have also been shown in more traditional spaces such as Centre A, New Westminster Museum and Gallery, and Burnaby Art Gallery. She has worked on animation projects with University of British Columbia and The Only Animal titled Voice, Voices and Voicing, 2021 and Come dream with me in the forest, 2022. Her recent films, Around the Kitchen Table, 2024 showed through the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen and Push & Pull, 2025 won an international film festival award for best animation. She graduated from Emily Carr University with a bachelor’s in visual arts in 2017 and have been a visual arts instructor at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts since. 陆文雯 (she/her/hers)
Living and learning on the unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) speaking peoples For more information:
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