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. Yu’s work is rooted in the study of light in lived interiors and the nostalgic and detached perspective of ‘home’. Her paintings exist in the grey area between memory and invention, preserving the impermanence of lived experiences.

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

Yu has exhibited widely in London and Hong Kong. In 2025, her work was shown at The Graduate Art Show at Vanner Gallery, the Recent Graduates Exhibition at Affordable Art Fair Battersea, and the Delphian 2025 Open Call Winners Exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop. Other notable London exhibitions include What Now at Lake Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries (2025), Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with Made in Arts London (2024), Renters! at Safehouse 1 (2024), and Days Bygone, Days To Come at hArtslane Gallery, New Cross (2024), which she co-curated. She also developed and curated The Essence of Being at 30 Millbank (2024). Further exhibitions include Coalesce at Copeland Gallery, Peckham (2024), Milk and Honey at Brixton Library (2024), Before Now, After Then at Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf, Southwark (2023), and The Space Between at TM Lighting Gallery (2023). Internationally, she exhibited as a finalist for the Sovereign Art Foundation Student Prize at Fine Art Asia in Hong Kong (2020) and held six solo exhibitions at Art Square, Discovery Bay Pier, Hong Kong (2016–2020).

Yu won First Prize in Asia Society’s Sincerely Me – Inspired by Pan Yu Lin competition (2019) and was shortlisted for the UOB Art in Ink Awards the same y...