Betty Yu

Betty Yu

Betty Yu is an award-winning socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker and activist born and raised in NYC. Yu integrates documentary film, installation, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice. She is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-displacement fights. Betty’s work has focused on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, transgender equality among other issues. Ms. Yu’s documentary “Resilience” about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions screened at  film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Yu’s multi-media installation, “The Garment Worker” was featured at Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive Showcase. In 2020, she worked with housing activists to create “Resistance in Progress”, a multimedia installation at Queens Museum. Betty had her first solo exhibition, “(Dis)Placed in Sunset Park” at Open Source Gallery. Ms. Yu won the Aronson Social Justice Award for her film “Three Tours” about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq, and their journey to overcome PTSD.  Betty had her curatorial debut in the 2021 when she curated “Imagining De-Gentrified Futures”, an exhibition that featured artists of color, activists and others along with her own work at apexart gallery in NYC. Additionally, her work has also been exhibited and screened at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, NY Historical Society, Museum of the City of NY, Tenement Museum, Artists Space/ISP Whitney Museum, 2019 BRIC Biennial, Apexart,Pace University Art Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, 601 Artspace, Five Myles, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center.

Residency/Fellowship

2025 Community of Practice and 2020 Labor

Website

bettyyu.net
Instagram – @bettyyu21
Facebook – facebook.com/bettyyubrooklyn

Location

Brooklyn, NY