Guanqiao Yu
Guanqiao Yu inside a water tank, reaching toward its wall in FALL

FALLPerformance · 2026

Performance · Moving Image · Installation

Something is being done to Guanqiao’s body.

Guanqiao Yu traces queer intimacy through the body, where desire meets discipline, memory becomes material, and closeness can turn into a form of control.

Selected work

Selected work / 2018 to 2026

Archive

Guanqiao Yu suspended upside down above a water tank in FALL 01 FALLPerformance · 2026View project Guanqiao’s face behind lipstick-marked plastic film in I Never Kiss U. 02 I Never Kiss U.Performance · 2025View project Guanqiao Yu surrounded by twelve rotating structures in Moonrise Sunset 03 Moonrise SunsetPerformance · 2025View project Performance documentation from My Dream Is Not Red 04 My Dream Is Not RedPerformance · 2024View project Performance documentation from Cut Love 05 Cut LovePerformance · 2024View project Guanqiao Yu in drag in Queer Wife 06 Queer WifeMoving image · 2023View project Performance documentation from A4 07 A4Performance · 2022 to 2025View project Guanqiao Yu inside a one-way glass structure in Inner 08 InnerPerformance · 2023View project Film still from Losing Stomach 09 Losing StomachMoving image · 2022View project Performance documentation from Seven Jars 10 Seven JarsPerformance · 2018View project

Guanqiao Yu

About

Guanqiao Yu is a Chicago-based artist working across performance, moving image, and installation. His practice examines queer intimacy and bodily experience within the sociopolitical contexts of contemporary Asia.

Using water, repetition, domestic rituals, and acts of endurance, Guanqiao stages the unstable threshold between care and control, longing and refusal, private memory and public ideology.

Based
Chicago, USA
Focus
Performance / Moving Image