Brandi Martin Yu

Class of 2015

Brandi Yu lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Visual Arts.

Yu's installations and sculptures bring physicality to text and research to poetry. The site-specific works from her artist residencies respond to an investigation of local history, people, place and found materials. Her sculptural work uses text as physical manipulatives, making language malleable and its ownership up for grabs.

She exhibits both in the US and abroad. Her recent site-specific residencies were in Bulgaria, Detroit, Gettysburg and Slovakia/Hungary; the Bridgeguard Residency between the Mária Valéria bridge between Štúrovo, Slovakia, and Esztergom, Hungary (funded by the Štefan and Viera Frühauf Endowment Fund).