Betty Yu
Betty Yu
Title
Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication and Media ArtsDepartment
Communication and Media ArtsPhone
212-517-0664About
Betty Yu is an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer, and activist born and raised in NYC. Her films and multimedia work have focused on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, and transgender equality, among other issues. She is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-displacement fights.
Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, New-York Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, Tenement Museum, Artists Space/Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum, 2019 BRIC Biennial, Apexart, Pace University Art Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, 601 Artspace, Five Myles, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center.
She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, and a New Media Narratives certificate from the International Center of Photography.
Degree(s)
B.F.A. in Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
M.F.A in Integrated Media Arts, City University of New York’s Hunter College