Feast @ Johansson Projects
11/2025 - 01/2026
Feast is structured like an Italian full-course meal, unfolding in stages that explore the eroticism, performance, and violence behind acts of eating and consumption. Each painting resembles a thumbnail for a mukbang video —marked by surreal excess, seductive abundance, and intimate spectacle.
Elsewhere @ IRL Gallery
11/2024 - 12/2024
"Wu’s paintings unsettle like a phone camera one didn’t expect to be front-facing [...] Elsewhere turns the urgency to look into a humiliation ritual." - Ekalan Hou
Out in the Open @ New Image Art
12/2023 - 01/2024
Out in the Open is a body of four paintings that collapses a decadent seafood mukbang, impossible skydivers, unsettling voyeurs, and a cinematic frame into a single viewable room. Weaving between enclosed and open spaces, the figures in Wu’s work feel impossible and impenetrable, elusive in both their singularity and doubleness, nakedness and exposure.
Information
L. Song Wu
lsongwustudio@gmail.com
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L. Song Wu is an artist currently dividing her time between northern California and Milan. Her work explores the tension between intimacy and alienation through the lens of surveillance/viewership. Drawing from a range of sources like anime, YouTube thumbnails, and memory, Wu creates a meticulously crafted world that refracts her ideas of place and self. Wu's work has been exhibited internationall, and she has been selected as a finalist for the AXA Art Prize and Tournesol Award.
Education
BAh Art Practice
Stanford University
BS Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Solo Shows
Feast
Johansson Projects
Oakland, 2025
Elsewhere
IRL Gallery
NYC, 2024
Out in the Open
New Image Art
LA, 2023
Gleaming Things
Miller Exhibition Space
Stanford, 2022
Recent Group Shows
Atrium Art Fair
Good Mother Studio
San Francisco, 2026
The River Never Runs Dry
Glass Rice
San Francisco, 2025
Story Time
Rhodes Contemporary
London, 2025
UNTITLED Art Fair
IRL Gallery
Miami, 2024
Fritto Misto II
IRL Gallery
NYC, 2024
Body Language
IRL Gallery x ATLA
LA, 2024