Artemis Lyu (Fan Lyu) is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist working between New York and Shanghai, and a certified full cave diver. Through installation, sculpture, painting, and video, she examines migration, displacement, rootlessness, and the persistent search for belonging.
She approaches cave diving as a return to a primordial human space, placing the diver’s descent into the unknown alongside the experience of migration: both are driven by a desire for elsewhere, and neither arrives at a stable end. Caves, guidelines, light, voids, and structures of interconnection recur throughout her work, pointing toward direction, memory, and attachment while at the same time exposing how fragile those relations are. Her practice does not attempt to locate home. It attends instead to how a person faces absence, and continues to exist, in a condition where belonging can never be permanently held.
EDUCATION2024-2026 MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts. New York, NY, United States.
2014 Japanese Culture Program, Kanagawa University. Yokohama, Japan.
2012-2016 BA Japanese Language and Literature, Shanghai Normal University. Shanghai, China.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026Sum It Up, Post Gallery, Denver, CO
Finding Here, MFA Thesis Show, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
2025What Holds, What Breaks, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
Eightfold, Pirate Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO
PRESSHyperallergic: SVA Grads Make Art out of History’s Rubble