Amy Suo Wu was born in China, grew up in Sydney, and lives in Rotterdam as an artist, designer, and teacher. Her practice weaves text and textile into material, political, and historical storytelling.
Together with her mother, Maria Ling Qing Huang, she explores literal and metaphorical approaches to intergenerational mending, design as remittance, and self-fulfilling prophecy under the auspicious title Serenity Department.
Her previous body of work on steganographic practices as acts of protection, survival, and resistance in the face of oppression and violence is now published under the title A Cookbook of Invisible Writing through Onomatopee.
She was also the co-founder and co-organizer of the Rotterdam zine festival Zine Camp between 2015 and 2019. Over a decade, she has taught at the Experimental Publishing Master’s at the Piet Zwart Institute, the Design Department Master’s at the Sandberg Institute, and Graphic Design and Cultural Diversity at Willem de Kooning Academy. She is currently teaching at the Critical Fashion Practices Master’s at ArtEZ Arnhem and Graphic Design at KABK. Her works have been shown at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (NL), TENT Rotterdam (NL), State of Fashion (NL), Artspace (AU), Murray Art Museum Albury (AU), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (KR), Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH), and Aksioma (SI).