Connie Yu
Connie Yu is a writer and artist based in Philadelphia. Their practice takes place in poetry and printmaking, cooking and strength training, and takes shape from the administrative aspects of these data — asking the limits and series of work and its measure, measure and its work. They have shown in group exhibitions at ArtYard, William Way LGBT Community Center, Asian Arts Initiative, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, AUTOMAT, and Vox Populi. Read their writing in the chapbook modest technologies, 1 thru 3 (Neighboring Systems, 2019), and in the online directory Conflicts of Interest.
Connie curates, edits, and publishes work by/for queer and trans Asian artists with their print collective FORTUNE, which they co-founded in 2019; and operates to its small-scale risograph imprint Many Folds Press.
Awarded Grants
2025
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)
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2019
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
FORTUNE is a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by and for queer Asian publics, in the Year of the Pig 2019. Each of 12 monthly issues combines letterpress and risograph printing, features multiple contributors, and is released through community gathering.
FORTUNE is tended to by Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, and Connie Yu; we are a collective of queer, Asian writers/artists who call Philadelphia, Home. Heidi is a sculptor, construction worker, and educator interested in the intersection of cultural sovereignty, ecology, and economy. Connie is a writer and performer attending to information— its transmission and precarity. Andrienne is a printmaker inspired by narrative, documentation, ritual, and celebration. Together, we make multiples.
