Eddie Choo Wen Yi is a multidisciplinary artist from Malaysia based in Helsinki and a graduate of the MFA programme at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki. Having previously completed a Diploma in Painting at Dasein Academy of Art, Kuala Lumpur, studied sculpture at Taipei National University of the Arts, and completed a second BFA in Time and Space Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, their practice explores personal and collective narratives of heritage, displacement, and translation, engaging with cultural identities and social structures.
In 2023, Eddie received the Young Artist Grant from the Finnish Art Society for the research project Rewound Trading Legacies, which examines links between family histories and broader socio-economic frameworks. Active with lumbung radio and Station of Commons, they have coordinated and contributed to international initiatives and publications, including Miss Read Art Book Fair (Berlin), African Art Book Fair (Dakar), and Politics of Sound #2 (Afrikadaa, 2025). In 2025, Eddie received FRAME Contemporary Art Finland mobility grant support to participate in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, where they performed the live piece Monsoon Symphony.
They contributed to the publication Waves: Radio as Collective Imagination, launched during Miss Read 2024, and wrote a collective text titled Station of Commons: A Conversation on Translocal Radio Practices in the publication Radio as Radical Education, published by Station of Commons, Helsinki 2024.
Most recently, Eddie contributed a collective text to Afrikadaa’s 2025 issue Politics of Sound #2: Les musiques qui réparent les corps et les récits (Music Repairing Bodies and Narratives).
