Tong Wu is an artist who currently lives and works in London. Her practice questions how identity is situated and understood beyond preconceived categories of race, gender, and culture, and how individuals come to inhabit multiple, shifting versions of the self across different contexts and environments.

Her work treats the surface of the work as a conceptual and material metaphor for the body. Through layering, scraping, embedding, and accumulation, the painted surface becomes a record of touch, time, and negotiation. She approaches identity as an unstable, embodied experience rather than a fixed or representational category.

Through this inquiry, she challenge fixed notions of normality and cultural belonging, proposing an understanding of the self as a dynamic, evolving condition shaped through ongoing negotiation rather than stable definition. She aims to create spaces where emotional intensity and fragility are not resolved, but held open, allowing the work to remain alive, shifting, and responsive within the larger systems.