1985年出生于中国上海，目前工作与生活于中国上海、美国纽约。
于吉艺术实践的核心，是对雕塑艺术的重新审视，对其三维立体属性的拓展，以及对雕塑与身体、语境及叙事的关系的协调。作为一系列干预性实践，她以媒介本身及材料为出发点创作的的装置、影像及行为表演作品既存在于空间中，也在不断塑造其所处的空间。于吉在发展自身艺术语言之时通过与形态、物件、人性及日常生活息息相关的丰富词汇架构坚实、动人的语句。
Born in Shanghai, China in 1985, currently works and lives in Shanghai, China and New York, USA.
Running throughout Yu Ji’s sculptural work is an acknowledgement of the body. The cast of a limb, the outline of a body part – Yu Ji creates sensitive yet weighty anatomical and amorphous objects that evoke a sense of eery mechanical disengagement, as if an alter human had been created then pilfered. Consider, for example, ‘Altar the Ghost’ (2018), in which, amidst a sea of black sand, there are a series of cast and cast-away objects. Upon closer contemplation, one identifies a hand, a structure that resembles a torso; the tones vary from a warm beige to grey. The titles of each work emphasise the physical and sense of absence, incorporating terms such as ‘flesh’ and ‘ghost’, pointing to a spectral existence. Heightening a sense of tender presence is the permeation of balance: each object is mounted, hooked, reliant upon another element, a visualisation that is emphasised by the incorporation of towering and leaning pillars, each of which have an odd levity given their materials of cement and iron.
