Ngai Ning Yu

Ngai Ning Yu (b.2003, Hong Kong) is an award-winning London-based fine artist working with oil paint. She completed her Bachelors degree in Fine Art Painting with First Class Honours at the University of the Arts London (2025). As the overall winner of the Delphian Open Call 2025, she will be having a solo exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop in autumn 2026 presented by Delphian Gallery.

“ My practice explores the notion of ‘home’ as an emotional space of belonging, where memory can be revisited through light and shadow. As an oil painter, I am interested in the philosophies of home as investigated through a phenomenological lens. These isolating yet universal revelations on nostalgia, memory, and loss largely inform my work. I like to employ the motific nature of domestic landscapes and the liminality of light and space to create tangible tension, a collective aloneness reflective of the dichotomy between the inner mind and the exterior world. I work from photographs and memories of significant places I have once inhabited, and I like to hide the figures within my compositions, so that they are seen through their shadow silhouettes or obstructed by another layer of space, existing only as an echo that draws on my sentimentality ...

2022 - 2025 University of the Arts London
First Class Honours Bachelors degree in Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of the Arts,
University of the Arts London

2022 University of the Arts London
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design - distinction in Specialist Art: Painting

2021 Discovery College
International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma (39/45) on a Visual Arts scholarship

Upcoming
Solo exhibition with Delphian Gallery at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London (Oct 2026)

2026
Well hung Painting Prize Exhibition of Shortlisted Artists at Well Hung gallery, London (Until Aug 29)
Society of Women Artists 165th Annual Open Exhibition at Mall Galleries
The Body in the Room at JD Malat Gallery, Mayfair, London

2025
Delphian Open Call 2025 Winners Exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London
The Graduate Art Show at The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury
Recent Graduates Exhibition at the Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London
Vital Void at Tiderip Gallery, London
Camberwell Fine Art Painting Degree show at 1 Wilson Road, London
Open House at Winns Gallery, London
Walls of Anubis at The Crypt Gallery, London
What Now at Lake Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, London
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2024
Renters! at Safehouse 1, Peckham, London
Days Bygone, Days To Come (co-curated) at hArtslane Gallery, New Cross, London
Affordable Art Fair with Made in Arts London at Hampstead Heath, London
Coalesce group exhibition at Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London
The Essence of Being (co-curated) group at 30 Millbank, London
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2023
Round Table 「圓桌」(co-curated) group at Belsize Community Library
In Between What Once Was (co-curated) gro...