Kira Wu

Visual artist, Kira Wu works with experimental video/film, installation art, and photography. Born in Hong Kong, Wu immigrated to Canada in 1976 with her family, and grew up in Alberta. She attended undergraduate studies at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Alberta (1990-1994). She received an MFA degree from the School for the Contemporary Arts, at Simon Fraser University (1995-1998). Wu’s art explores the intersection between personal narratives, memory, gender and cultural identity. Her video works, and art installations have been shown locally as well as internationally in Calgary, Banff, Vancouver, Hong Kong, France and New York. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions over two decades, including Re-dress Express, Centre A, Vancouver (2007), New Canadian Video, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), and Interferences, Multi-media and Digital Art Festival in Belfort, France (2000). In 2013, Wu became a co-founding member of the South of the Fraser Inter-Arts Collective (SOFIA/C). She is a faculty member in the Fine Arts Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University where she teaches photography, video and studio art. http://www.kirawu.net