Man Yu Fung

Man Yu is an interdisciplinary artist, humanist, vegan, and environmentalist. Born in Hong Kong, she settled in Costa Rica when her family emigrated in search of peace. Although painting has been the medium in which he has excelled, it incorporates multiple multidisciplinary media such as installation, video, and performance.

Her training has been outside the academy, with artists from the old guard such as Julio Escámez (Chile), Nelly Eyo (Argentina), and Wu Song Ze (China). Much of her work focuses on raising awareness about problems through the decipherment of the layers of the human being. With this, her work goes through antixenophobic and antihomophobic activism, treating identity beyond the differences of the physical surface layers of being.

She has participated in multiple national and international exhibitions, with works in public collections inside and outside Costa Rica, such as the Postal Mail and the Ministry of Culture of China, the Hanwei International Group, the Costa Rican Center for Science, and Culture, the National Bank. from Costa Rica and the Juan Santamaría Airport.

She has obtained important recognitions, such as the best short film at the European International Film Festival and the declaration o...

--awards & others--

Greatest international projection 2023
AICA International Association of Art Critics

Best Short Film Award, with No. 77873B, European International Film Festival, Moscow, RUSSIA 2019

Selected artwork for the Conmemorative Envelope of the Diplomatic Relationship Between China and Costa Rica, China Post, Beijing, CHINA 2019​

​Artist-in-residence, VI Latinamerica and Caribean Art Festival, of the Program of the Ministry of Culture of China at the Hanwei International Art Center, Beijing, CHINA.

Vicepresident of the Temporary Exhibitions Council of Juan Santamaría Historical and Cultural Museum COSTA RICA​ 2018-current

Winner of the 5th edition "Women Art" of the PDME Chamber of Commerce COSTA RICA 2016

Member of the Temporary Exhibitions Council of Juan Santamaría Historical and Cultural Museum COSTA RICA 2015-2018

Honorable Mention in "Solitude”, A Singular Creation International Art Contest, INTERNATIONAL 2009

Honorable Mention at the Institute of Historical Research Rocca Museum, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA 2009

Honorable Mention in the "IX Winter Salon of Barcelona", ESART Gallery, Barcelona, SPAIN 2008

Honorable Mention in "Show Art Association Italian BSAS", Autonomous City Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA 2007

2021

"Human Suit" Series, La Neomudéjar Museum, Madrid, SPAIN

Projection of the Video "Ilusión: Construcción Sonora", Cinépolis, San José, COSTA RICA

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2020

Projection of the Video "Ilusión: Construcción Sonora", Magaly Cinema, San José, COSTA RICA

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2019

Happening / Performance "I am not this costume", Plaza Skawak, San José, COSTA RICA

Series "Human Suit", Museum of Women, San José, COSTA RICA

"Human Suit" Series, Beijing Museum of World Art, Beijing, CHINA

"Human Suit" Series, TEC Arts Center, Cartago, COSTA RICA

Series "Human Suit", Municipal Museum of Cartago, Cartago, COSTA RICA

2018

Fashion show "El Clóset Humano", National Gallery, Costa Rican Center for Science and Culture, San José, COSTA RICA

Series “Traje Humano”, National Gallery, Costa Rican Center for Science and Culture, San José, COSTA RICA

"Human Suit" Series, British Motors, San José, COSTA RICA

"Spring Day", Concert and Live Art next to the Center for Chinese-Costa Rican Musical Arts, San José, COSTA RICA

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2017.

Projection of the video "Human: Man Yu", Magaly Cinema, San José, COSTA RICA

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2016:

Projection of the Video "Human Suit I", University of Costa Rica, San José, COSTA RICA

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