About 

Helen Yu is a painter living and working in New York. She earned her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020 and her M.A. from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2025. She is currently a copyist candidate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Her works have been exhibited in Woods-Gerry Triennial (Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, R.I., 2015); Kunqu (Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, 2017); The RISD Illustration Senior Show (ISB Gallery online, Providence, R.I., 2020), The Other to Itself (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, NY, 2023); 9 (TheBlanc, New York, NY, 2024); Girl Dinner (Uncool Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2025), Something Sweet (38 Renwick, New York, NY, 2026).