Graduate Associate
brubeyhu[at]yorku.ca
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies
Research Keywords:
Transnational feminism; Chinese diaspora; visual culture; art; domestic labour
Research Region(s):
Research Diaspora(s):
Chinese Diaspora
Brubey Hu (b. 1994, Xiamen, China) is an artist, graphic designer and educator, currently based in Toronto. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo as a Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC scholar and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is currently an MA student in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University. Her current research concerns domestic labour within contemporary households wherein a gender asymmetry has historically signified the division of domestic labour. Her goal of this research is to examine the gendered dynamics of domestic labour within the context of the Chinese diaspora in Canada and the United States, exploring its social invisibility through feminist theory and artistic practice, and proposing strategies to reimagine and elevate its cultural and social value.
Bridging her interests in linguistics, poetry, transnational feminism, and architectural drawing, her practice seeks to delineate how cultural and personal identities are shaped. Hu’s work has been exhibited at Art Mur in Montreal, QC (2019); Winchester Galleries in Victoria, BC (2020); Zalucky Contemporary (2024), Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2023), University of Waterloo Art Gallery (2022), Cambridge Galleries (2021), and Art Gallery of Mississauga (2022), all in Ontario. She has participated in numerous residencies, including at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada (2018) and the School of Visual Arts in New York, United States (2023), and she will be participating in the NARS Foundation International Artist Residency in 2025. Hu has worked as a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the University of Waterloo. She is a co-director at Tangent Collective. Her practice is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.