Yehui Zhao

Yehui is an award-winning filmmaker and artist whose work explores migration, decolonization, heritage, and regeneration. Her work takes root in the feminist legacies of the global south, drawing inspiration from revolutionary history, womanhood and daughtership, and undocumented collective memory. Yehui is the director of the feature documentary May the Soil Be Everywhere, and her films have been shown at True/False, Dokufest, DOC NYC, UnionDocs, Prismatic Ground, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Asian American International Film Festival, and other programs.

Yehui has published paintings, prints, and writing at Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review and Action, Spectacle. She is a recipient of the IDA Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts grant, and the York Women in Film and Television Scholarship. Yehui holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. She teaches film, media arts, and performance art as an adjunct professor in New York City.

At Woodward, she will be working on oral history research on quotidian, woman-centered industrial life in China.