Yikui (Coy) Gu

Painting, Mixed Media

Yikui (Coy) Gu was born in 1983 in Nantong, China; emigrated to the U.S. at the age of seven; and grew up in Albany, New York. He has a BFA from Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

He has exhibited his work nationally in New York; Miami; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Boston; and St. Louis and internationally in London; Berlin; and Siena, Italy. He has been an artist in residence at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, and has lectured at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; and Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri. Yikui has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, the Washington Post, KunstForum International, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Art Review and Yale Daily News.

His work has appeared on the cover of the Lower East Side Review and in Fresh Paint and Art Maze. Yikui’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Siena Art Institute, Italy; Wheaton College, Illinois; Camden County College, New Jersey; and numerous private collections. He resides in Philadelphia and teaches at the College of Southern Maryland, La Plata. The bulk of his time is spent in the studio, where he is currently plotting his takeover of the international art world while remaining mostly harmless.