Interviews by Brainard Carey

Betty Yu


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Betty Yu is a multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu integrates documentary film, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice, and she is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing.

Ms. Yu has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships from the Laundromat Project, A Blade of Grass, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Intercultural Leadership Institute, Skidmore's Documentary Storytellers' Institute, KODA Lab, Asian American Arts Alliance, En Foco, China Residencies, Flux Factory and Santa Fe Art Institute.

Her work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, NY Historical Society, Artists Space, SPACE Gallery, Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Tribeca Film Festival's Interactive Showcase, 2019 BRIC Biennial; Old Stone House, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center. In 2018 she had a solo exhibition at Open Source Gallery in New York. In 2017 Ms. Yu won the Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Award for her film "Three Tours" about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq, and their journey to overcome PTSD.

She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and a One-Year Certificate from International Center Photography New Media Narratives program. Ms. Yu teaches video, social practice, art and activism at Pratt Institute, Hunter College, and The New School, in addition she has over 20 years of community, media justice, and labor organizing work. In the Fall 2020, Betty had her curatorial debut as she presented Imagining De-Gentrified Futures, an exhibition that featured artists of color, activists and others along with her own work at Apexart in Tribeca, NYC. Betty sits on the boards of Third World Newsreel and Working Films; and on the advisory board of More Art.
The current project that was discussed in the interview: We Were Here: Unmasking Yellow Peril
The book mentioned in the interview was Race for Profit.


My grandparents in New York City in the 1950s with the cut out of 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act in the Background, Digital Collage, 2020.







(Dis)Placed in Sunset Park: My Personal Story from Betty Yu on Vimeo.
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