Shuk Pui Bobby Yu
(She/her)
Address: UKS, Keysers gate 1, 0165 Oslo, 0165 Oslo
Floor: Ground floor
Room number: Bobby Shuk Pui Yu
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Hong Kong and Oslo. Working across film, text, installation, sculpture, and performance, Bobby’s practice centers on themes of identity construction, cultural displacement, and family mythology. Her work often reflects her personal experiences as an “escaper” navigating multiple languages without a fixed mother tongue, creating layered narratives filled with humor, surrealism, and empathy.
Through filmmaking, she seeks to foster dialogue and share knowledge, experiences, and emotional resonance with diverse communities. Bobby frequently investigates familial histories, generational trauma, and inherited legacies, blending fictional elements with authentic lived experiences. Her practice is marked by an ongoing obsession with identity, carefully constructing semi-fictional narratives that explore how memory shapes both personal and collective histories.
Bobby holds a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Shophouse (2024), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2022), Parasite (2017), Tomorrow Maybe Gallery (2017), VI VII Gallery (2024), Podium (2022), Galleri BOA (2021), K4 Gallery (2021), Kunstnernes Hus (2021), Swatch Art Peach Hotel Shanghai (2017), A Place Gallery & Studios Orlando (2016), Youkobo Art Space Gallery Tokyo (2016), and Listhus Gallery Ólafsfjörður (2016). In 2023, Bobby received the Best Director award at the 17th Freshwave Film Festival in Hong Kong.
Film, Mixed-media, Identity, Family history, Cultural belonging, Semi-fiction, Humor-infused surrealism,
Genetic Salon - A Corner of Alternative History, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, Installation, Digital Printed on Papers, Sands, Flashlights, Wooden Brushes, 2021. Photos taken by Frankie Chan from Wave Channel HK.
Genetic Salon - Red Room, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, Video and Text Installation, A spotlight, Projector, Sound Speaker, 8 pieces of flashlights, Labels, Hand Sculpture made with Resin, Wigs, Badge of Genetic Salon, Soils, 2021. Photo taken by KUNSTDOK Tor Simen Ulstein.
Our Story with Hemorrhoids, Yu Shuk Pui, video and installation, Stills from Bobby's drama short "Lykke Til", 2024-2025
The Remains of Genetic Salon, Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, Multi-channels video installtion, Projector, LCD Screens, Sand, Digital printed on paper, 1945s Afterposten newspapers, a Barber Chair and a Costume that have used for the film shoot, 2022. Photo taken by KUNSTDOK Tor Simen Ulstein.
In my studio
I’m currently preparing for my upcoming solo exhibition The Piles We Carry, opening at UKS on May 9th, 2025. Visitors to my studio will get a behind-the-scenes look at the work-in-progress production, including video-making, large-scale soft sculptures, and installation development.
The exhibition explores the body’s hidden narratives and inherited discomforts, focusing on how we process personal and collective pain through humour, storytelling, and shared experience. At the heart of the project is a situational comedy documentary that reenacts my family’s shared experience with haemorrhoids and our journey toward healing.
Studio visitors will be invited into my personal process, witnessing how intimate stories take shape through playful, material experimentation.
Planned projects and exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 Our Story with Hemorrhoids / UKS, Oslo
GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 Daddy’s Dinner / Tenthaus, Oslo & 413 BETA, Seoul
2024 24-Hour Sun, 24-Hour Moon / NADA East Broadway, NYC
Film
2024 RUNTO THE SICH
2024-2026 RIBBE, Feature Film in Norway and Hong Kong
CV
STUDIES
2019-2021 Oslo National Academy of the Arts / MFA Fine Arts
2015-2018 Hong Kong Baptist University / BA Visual Arts
2012-2015 Hong Kong Design Institute / HD Visual Art and Culture
PRIZES AND GRANTS
2023 Best Director – 17th Freshwave Film Festival / Hong Kong
2022 Scholarship of Snorre Andersen, Maleren Ambrosius Egedius og Hustrus Legat (SAMAEHL) – Young Artists’ Society (UKS) / Norway
2021 Kunstnernes Hus, Fondet for Kunst og Designstudenter (FKDS) – Studio Grant / Norway
2020 King’s College London – Longlist of the Ivan Juritz Prize
2017 AVA HKBU and The Art of CUHK – Honourable Mention of Vitamin D Award / Hong Kong
2014 Golden Sugarcane Film Festival – Best Actress / Taiwan
2013 Art Experience Gallery – 1st First Smash Art Project / Hong Kong
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Young Artists’ Society (UKS) / Oslo Norway
2023 Kongsberg Kunstforening / Kongsberg Norway
2022 Isotop Felle Atelier / Bergen Norway
Podium – The Remains of Genetic Salon / Oslo
2021 K4 Gallery – Genetic Salon Red Room / Oslo
Post-Human Narratives c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam – Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video interaction) /Online
Skylight KHiO – Genetic Salon PART I (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2019 Skylight KHiO – Genetic Salon Skylight 2019 (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2015 Art Fix Gallery – CV by Vagina / London
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES
2019 Hong Kong Community Radio HKCR – A series of Genetic Salon DJ Conferences (multimedia performance) / Hong Kong
2016 Mjólkurbúðin – Marriage-Seeking 2016 (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan – Examination (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan – POWER DUMPLINGS (performane) / Akureyri
2014 100ft. Gallery – The Woman (performance) / Hong Kong
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Loftet@Kunstnernes Hus (w/ Ole Petter Ribe )- FKDs Artists Duo Show / Oslo
2019 Akademironmmet (w/ Montserrat Llampallas) c: Jasper Siverts & Emilia Sølvsten – Unstable Monuments (installation) / Oslo
2017 100ft. Gallery (w/ Hui Serene Sze Lok)- Dimension Convertor – Artifical Waterfall (installation) / Hong Kong
2015 EC Gallery (w/ Sunday Lai) c: Jeff Leung – Half Day with Cloud (video installation)/ Hong Kong
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
QB Gallery / Oslo Norway
2022
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences- Post Human Narratives – In the name of scientific witchery (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) – Genetic Salon (video) / Hong Kong
2021
Karen Leung Foundation – The Extra Odinary Exhibition 2.0 – You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Cattle Depot Artist Village – Post Human Narratives – Common Ground (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) – Genetic Salon (installation) / Hong Kong
BOA – Billedkunstnerne i Oslo og Akershus – Struktura Time (c: Lesia Vasylchenko) – Genetic Salon (installation) / Oslo
SVETOVA 1 – Universal Wilderness (c: Zai Xu) – Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video) / Prague
Kunstnernus Hus – The Great Indoors (c: Pedro Gómez-Egaña) / Oslo
2020
Galleri Seilduken KHiO – SOLASTALGIC / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO – Work the Muscle / Oslo
IESA Gallery – Willful Blindness (c: Yannie Hung & Anna Lataillade) – Wilfully Blindness (video) / Paris
Akademirommet – Hinne – Vase Piece (video) / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO – Wilfully Blindness Painting Exhibition / Oslo
2019
Liu Art Museum – Strangers (c: Weitzu) / Taichung Taiwan
Kulturmejeriet – Fragile: the 2nd Röbäck Biennale (c: Audrius Pocius) / Umeå
Tomorrow Maybe Gallery – Yummy Gummy (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong
Form Society & Hong Kong Artist Union – Drum & Voice Out! (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong
2018
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU – Bad Grade Exhibition / Hong Kong
2017 Power Station of Art & Swatch Art Peach Hotel – LIGHT UP Therapy Resort (c: Tiffany Fung & Lu Siqiao) / Shanghai
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU – Plane Stories / Hong Kong
1a Space – Plentiful Pluralities / Hong Kong
Para-site – In Search of Miss Ruthless (c: Hera Chan & David Xu Borgonjon) – / Hong Kong
Kai Tak Campus HKBU – AVA BA Graduation Exhibition / Hong Kong
2016
Listhús Gallery – Group Exhibition / Ólafsfjördur Iceland
A Place Gallery & Studio – AGENCIES: embodiment / Florida
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Art Gallery – Dada Lives! / Ohio
Youkobo Art Space Gallery – Feminist Fan in Japan and Friends / Tokyo
2015
starproject – Perpetual Production & Consumption (c: Cecilia Lee) – You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre – Book in Times: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong
2014
Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity – Macy is Homed (c: Ho Yuen) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre – Outside Reading: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong
Hong Kong Design Institute – New Voices Talent Show / Hong Kong
2013
Art Experience Gallery – 1st First Smash (c: Aries Chan) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre – Eggwich / Hong Kong
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2023 Hong Kong Freshwave Film Festival & Competition
2021 ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL / Norway
SELECTED FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS
2023
FUTURES – Europe-based photography platform
Oslo Negative
2021
Vigeland Musuem – Perfection/Speculation (c: PRAKSIS & Karmaklubb) / Norway
2019
ROM for Art and Architecture – Performance Art Oslo Festival / Hong Kong
2017
Connecting Space – Accidental Tourist Guide – Officealley (installation) / Hong Kong
2016
Hong Kong Art Gallery Association – The Gallery Walk – The Stretcher (performance) / Hong Kong
Listasumar – A! Performance Art Festival / Akureyri
RóT Project / Akureyri
Listasumar – Summer Art Festival / Akureyri
2015
Chorm Art – Tribe 15 Art Festival (c: Bea Kozlowska & Kris Cieslak) / London
7th Passion of Freedom / London
2012
7th YMCArts Wonder Land Festival / Hong Kong
SELECTED ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2021 PRAKSIS – Perfection/Speculation / Oslo
USF Bergen Artist in Residence / Bergen
2019 Lakkos Artists Residency / Crete
Athena Standards Residency / Athens
2016 Listhús Space / Ólafsfjördur
3331 Art Chiyoda / Tokyo
2014 435 Art Studio / Taipei
SPEECHES & ARTIST TALKS
2022 Para-Site – P.S. Studio Visit (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) /Online
2021 Radio Tenthaus (w/ Wei Ting Zeng and Jinbin Chen) / Oslo
Asian Art Museum – After Hope Symposium / San Francisco
Post-Human Narratives – Artist Talk ft. ‘The Birth of Vtuber Riffisa’ / Online
PRAKSIS – Perfection/Speculation Panel Discussion: Discussing genes, memes and the modifiable body / Oslo
Royal College of Art – Fashion+Solstice 21 / London
2018 The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
PUBLICATIONS
2013 DOING – Independent Publishing / Hong Kong
2012 YOUTH – YMCAarts / Hong Kong