P·P·O·W is pleased to host a conversation between artist Yu Ji and SculptureCenter Curator Jovanna Venegas in conjunction with Origin of the Tiger, Yu's first exhibition with the gallery. Yu recently presented a new sculptural installation in to ignite our skin, a group exhibition curated by Venegas at SculptureCenter, New York, NY, which was on view September 18 — December 22, 2025. This conversation will explore the ideas at play throughout Yu's recent presentations and overall practice, including the importance of collaboration as well as investigations into the potency of the fragment, atavistic memory, and the concept of place, both bodily and topographically.
Origin of the Tiger is currently on view at 392 Broadway through Saturday, April 11.
Please join us for this in-person event at 392 Broadway on Thursday, March 26, at 6:30pm.
No RSVP necessary. Seating will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Yu Ji (b. 1985) obtained her MFA at the Fine Art College of Shanghai University in 2011. In 2008, she co-founded “am art space,” an artist-led initiative promoting experimentation and exchanges between artists, curators and the public. Her recent solo exhibitions include Hide Me in Your Belly, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy; Protrude, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK; We the singular in multiple ghosts. I the multiple as parts of whole., Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, China; and Yu Ji: A Guest, A Host, A Ghost, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; among others. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong; New Museum, New York, NY; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; and more. Her work is part of the public collections of De Ying Foundation, Shanghai, China; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; and M+, Hong Kong. In 2019, her work was included in the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times. In 2023, Yu unveiled Column-Untitled No.3, a public art installation commissioned by the High Line, New York, NY. Her work is currently on view as part of In Interludes and Transitions, the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Saudi Arabia.
Jovanna Venegas is Curator at SculptureCenter, New York, NY. Before joining SculptureCenter, she was the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 2017-2023. While there she curated New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez, 2023, and Bay Area Walls: Liz Hernández, 2021, and co-organized New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion, 2021; Shifting the Silence, 2022; the 2022 SECA Art Award; and Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales, 2023-2024. Additionally, she served as curatorial advisor for the Whitney Biennial 2022 on the U.S./Mexico border region. Venegas holds a BA in art history from the University of California at Los Angeles, and an MA in curatorial practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
