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Marlene Tseng Yu (虞曾富美)

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Marlene Tseng Yu (虞曾富美)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Marlene Tseng Yu
  • Chinese: 虞曾富美
  • Era: 1937
  • Geography: 台灣 花蓮
  • Core roles: artist, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Marlene Tseng Yu was born in Taiwan in 1937 and came to the U.S. in 1963. From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City for 38 years, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master in Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967. She taught art at Denver University in Colorado in 1967 to 1968. Since 1994, she has been on the Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1995, she has curated exhibitions for the new art movement, “Forces of Nature.” Marlene is Founder and Curator of the Rain Forest Art Foundation from 2001 to present. In 2014, Marlene established her own museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Marlene Yu Museum.

Education

  • 國立台灣師範大學 — 1960 — B.A., Art
  • Univ. of ColoradoBoulder — 1967 — M.A., Art

Employment

  • Denver Univ. in Colorado — 1967-68 — Teacher
  • Open a studio — 1969

Timeline

Absorbed from the on-page TAH biography and Education/Employment tables.

  • 1937 — Born in 花蓮, Taiwan
  • 1960 — B.A. in Art, 國立台灣師範大學 (Taipei)
  • 1963 — Came to the U.S.
  • 1967 — M.A. in Art, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • 1967–68 — Taught art at Denver University, Colorado
  • 1969 — Opened a studio in SoHo, New York City; lived and worked there 38 years (through 2007)
  • 1994– — Advisory Committee, Fine Arts Department, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • 1995– — Curated exhibitions for the new art movement “Forces of Nature”
  • 2001– — Founder and Curator, Rain Forest Art Foundation
  • 2008 — Opened a studio in Long Island City
  • 2014 — Established her own museum, the Marlene Yu Museum, in Shreveport, Louisiana

Vault Records

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/861-marlene-tseng-yu||TAH story #861 — Marlene Tseng Yu 虞曾富美 (2016-02)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artist58-marlene-tseng-yu||TAH story #58 — 虞曾富美 Marlene Tseng Yu (2016-02)]]
  • Both are bibliographic records; full text stays in the vault (see |TAH story corpus).

Connected in the Vault (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • Two TAH encyclopedia records document her: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/861-marlene-tseng-yu||TAH #861]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artist58-marlene-tseng-yu||TAH #58]], both published 2016-02-29 (value band B — essay/feature). Both are held as bibliographic records in the |TAH story corpus; full text stays in the vault.
  • Her educator role traces through |TAH Foundation’s Who’s Who, which frames her as a Hualien-born artist-educator line from 台灣 花蓮 to SoHo/Long Island City and the Marlene Yu Museum (Shreveport, LA, 2014).
  • Colorado context (1967–68): her M.A. at Boulder and teaching post at Denver University place her in Colorado during 1967–68; the vault holds |Taiwanese Association of America — Colorado as community context for those years.
  • Deepen-X0913 check (2026-09-14): all facts present in the cited TAH records are already absorbed on-page (bio, tables, timeline); no new pages or invented biography added this pass.
  • SKIP-with-reason (deepen-x slice 09141300-5): corpus grep for 虞曾富美 / Marlene Tseng Yu in works+articles returns only her own two TAH bibliographic records (#861, #58) and the works index listing — no memoir/movement mentions to absorb. Press-kit artist bio; community corpus holds nothing beyond the records already linked in Vault Records. Nothing published.

Notes

  • Education table entry “Univ. of ColoradoBoulder” is a source typo for University of Colorado at Boulder (M.A. Art, 1967), consistent with the narrative and with her teaching post at Denver University 1967-68.

Family

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