Scarlet Yu Mei is a Hong Kong–born Thai-Chinese artist whose practice moves through the intersections of choreography, performance, and relational ecologies. Working with encounter as methodology, she approaches each meeting between bodies, materials, and environments as a generative site where identity, memory, and the politics of living-in-difference surface and shift.
Her works create choreographic situations that reveal how belonging, estrangement, and diasporic inheritance are negotiated through everyday gestures and embodied attention. Through conversational structures and sensorial interfaces, Yu crafts spaces where autobiography becomes collective inquiry and where transformation can be felt and reimagined.
Her works have been presented at Tai Kwun – Contemporary Art (Hong Kong), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Taipei Performing Arts Center, Carriageworks (Sydney), Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Rockbund Museum (Shanghai), Casa del Lago (Mexico City), Art Central Hong Kong (2024), Serendipity Arts Festival, and Taipei and Tainan Arts Festivals.
She has mentored at HZT Berlin, served as a jury member for Tanzplattform Deutschland (2018), and previously worked as Rehearsal Director of Arts Fission Company. She holds an MFA in Choreography from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.