Zhu graduated from the Affiliated High School of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1991.
[4][5] Snopes and other urban legend sites have said the "fetus" used by Zhu Yu was most likely constructed from a duck's body and a doll's head.
[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Other images from another art exhibit were falsely circulated along with Zhu Yu's photos and claimed to be evidence of fetus soup.
[13] The piece's cannibalistic theme caused a stir in Britain when Yu's work was featured on a Channel 4 documentary exploring Chinese Contemporary Art in 2003.
[14] Yu created a fictional film in 2003 titled "Corpse Case" which was based on "Eating People".
For this piece, Zhu Yu cut and boiled five human brains which were purchased from a local hospital.
Pocket Theology: Appearing in the 1999 group exhibition Post-Sense Sensibility- Alien Bodies & Delusion in Beijing, curated by Wu Meichun and Qiu Zhije.
This display was held in a small room in the basement that was being rented by a group of Chinese artists who organised the exhibition.
Skin Graft:[22] This performance art installation appeared in the 2000 exhibition Infatuation with Injury organized by Li Xianting.
Zhu photographed plates that held bits of leftover food and then painted those images on canvas with oil.
The next series, "Pebble," appeared at Zhu's solo exhibition Play Thing, at the Long March Space[23] in Beijing, 2010.
This is another series of highly detailed, realistic paintings that show individual pebbles, each featuring a slightly different hue or shape.