Eva Wu
Eva Wu (b. 1992, Santa Fe) is a multimedia artist based in Philadelphia for the past decade. A versatile artist, their bold works span moving image, social practice, interactive installations, and collaborative projects.
They delight in art as visionary future-telling, utopian spell-casting, public erotics, celebration, permission, color as political power, and remedies to uproot shame. With Hot Bits Collective, they collaborate to produce opportunities to watch fantastic queer porn in public, gather, cruise, and present otherwise underrepresented art/film for all.
Awarded Grants
2017
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)
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Overview
Eva WÅ is a queer mixed-race photographer, videographer, and curator, born in New Mexico and based in Philadelphia since 2010. She is known for creating strikingly colorful, complex, and uncompromising photographic portraits of queer, trans and nonbinary icons and community members. She facilitates care-based photo, video, and design projects with queer artists, event organizers, activists, performers, and sex workers with the aim to uplift and celebrate collaborators through an intentional and responsive process. Her current projects include an on-going portrait series, AFTERWARDS, and organizing the annual Hot Bits XXX Film Festival, Philly’s only queer porn festival. Her work creates visibility for marginalized identities, expands possibilities for self-determination, and visualizes queer liberation.
