Chen Long-bin
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Chen Long-bin is a Taiwanese
contemporary sculptor.
, Taiwan
. He received a BFA from the Fine Arts Department at Tung-Hai University in Taiwan, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts
in New York. He is known for using the cultural debris of our modern society, such as old, discarded books, newspapers, phonebooks, and magazines as the medium for his sculptures. Chen is self-taught in carving wood, but started showing interest in our paper culture as a viable material for art – phonebooks, magazines, and computer paper when PC
’s began growing popular in 1993. The advent of the personal computer changed the entire nature of information documentation – a role books used to play. Thus, by turning paper into the original wood for his sculptures, Chen offers renewed value to the meaning of paper. He uses chainsaws, drills, band saws, sanders, and scissors, along with other carpenter’s tools to shape his remarkable busts and figures, which appear stone, or even marble like from a distance.
Chen who has won prizes in Europe
, Taipei, and Japan
, has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums for many years in Japan, Korea
, France
, Germany
, Hong Kong
, Italy
, London
, Singapore
, Taiwan, and the United States
, and can also be found in numerous international public and private collections. He has been awarded artist fellowship grants from Taiwan’s National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York and the Freeman Foundation. In 1995, he received the Visitor’s Prize of the Sixth Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture in Stuttgart
, Germany. And in 1998, he received the Silver Prize at the Osaka Triennial in Japan.
For Chen, using recycled materials to make art stresses the challenges presented by endless human consumption and waste, as well as the tantamount ecological problems of waste accumulation and disposal, the destruction of forests, and the mindless use of nonrenewable resources. The reams of used computer paper disprove the assurance of the electronic paper-less office, which instead augments the use of paper, as printing is made much easier. Furthermore, his choice of medium also poses as a commentary on the loss of books as aesthetic objects, which have been replaced by mass-produced cheaply made paperbacks.
Books are extremely important to Chen. However, it is not the book itself, but its educational heritage, literary importance, historical knowledge, and the sacredness of the written word that he treasures most.
The type of materials he acquires in a sense determines the sculpture he creates. While in New York, he scoured the streets of Manhattan collecting discarded refuse, scouted offices for their rejected reams of paper, visited brownstone streets to gather cast off telephone books when new ones were distributed. And now, living in Taipei, Chen obtains his material from university libraries and bookstores, publishing companies, archeological museums, and telephone companies.
The special quality of Chen’s works is that people can still read the pages.
“I try to make sculptures that are appropriate for the content of the books. In my concept, the form and content is united together; the content gives me the idea of the form. Yellow Pages give me one kind of idea; books discarded from libraries inspire different styles…” Oftentimes, his art reflects the content of the pages within, such as one hanging installation featuring spirals of books with peepholes in which one can view a scene from the story within the original pages.
• Chen Long-Bin: Reading Sculpture - Culture Warrior, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, 2006
• Buddha Hurricane, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2006
• Reading Sculpture-Los Angeles project, The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica
, CA, 2005
• Reading Sculpture-Kids project, Kidspace at MassMoca, North Adams
, MA, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Atlanta project, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Roma project, Galleria Ca'a d'Oro, Rome
, Italy, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Milan project, Galleria Ca'a d'Oro, Milan
, Italy, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Vermont project, Vermont Studio Center, VT, 2004
• Reading Sculpture, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2003
• Alternative Study, Eslite Bookstore, Taiwan, 1999
• Taiwan Study, Cultural Affairs Department of Taiwan Provincial Government, Taiwan, 1998
• Humanity, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
, Taipei, Taiwan, 1997
• Reading Sculpture, Eight Floor Gallery, New York, 1995
• Culture Empire, American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, 1994
• Tools, Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
• Holland Paper Biennial, Museum Rijswijk, Holland, 2008
• CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
, Holland, 2008
• Outside In: A New Focus on Taiwanese Art, Columbia University
and TECO, Taipei Cultural Center, 2008
• Text Messaging, Islip Museum of Art, New York, 2008
• Second Lives: remixing the ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2008
• Pulp Function, Fuller Craft museum, Brockton, MA, U.S.A, 2007
• Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, Germany, 2007
• Dalai Lama Portrait Project, Dalai Lama Foundation, Travel Show – Morio Art Museum in Tokyo, Cartier Foundation in Paris and Museum in London, Taipei, Berlin, New York, LA, 2006
• Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
, New York, 2006
• Miami Art Fair, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Florida, 2005
• Do a Book: Asian Artists Summer Project 2004, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, NY, 2004
• The Invisible Tread – Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2003
• The Gravity of the Immaterial, Total Museum
, Seoul, 2002
• Absolut-2001 Los Angeles International, Biennial Art Invitational, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2001
• New Minds – Artistic Creations in Motion, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
, the International Artists’ Village, Planning Office, CCA, Executive Yuan, 2001
• The Gravity of the Immaterial, MoCA Taipei
, Taipei, 2001
• Osaka Triennial 2001, the Contemporary Art Space Osaka (CASO), Osaka, 2001
• Landscape on the Shelf, American Cultural Center, Taipei, 2000
• Mondo Tiara, Sculpture to Wear Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A., 2000
• San Francisco Art Fair, Robert Berman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2000
• Volume & Form Singapore 1999, Singapore City, National Library, Singapore, 1999
• Play, Paper factory-International Paper Art Festival, Cheng Chuen Cotton Paper Foundation & Cultural Affairs Department Taiwan Provincial Government, Taiwan, 1999
• Vision of Pluralism – Contemporary Art in Taiwan, 1988-1999, China Art Museum, Beijing. Mountain Art Museum, Kaohsiung
, 1999
• New Voice: Contemporary art Dialogue Among Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taipei, Hong Kong Art Fair, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, 1998
• Reflection and Reconsideration 2.28 Commemorative Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
, Taipei, 1998
• The Art Season of Taipei Rapid Train Station, National Art Institute, Taipei, 1998
• Osaka Trienniale 1998-Sculpture, Osaka Contemporary Art Center
, Osaka Gateway to Wisdom, Fubon Art Foundation, Taiwan University, Taipei, 1998
• Feast of Mind, Buffet of Art, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, 1997
• Our Deities, ISE Art Foundation, New York Personal Best, Chassie Post Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996
• A Dialogue of Contemporary Sculpture in Asia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
, Taipei, 1995
• Object Orbit, Chinese-American Arts Council, New York, 1995
• obCkession, TZ'art & Co., New York, 1995
• Triennial der Kleinplastik 1995, Europe-Ostaien, Stuttgart, Germany, 1995
• America vs China, Window Dressing, TZ'art & Co., New York, 1995
• New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College
, Co-Sponsored by CAA, New York, 1994
• The Entering Show of Taipei Fine Arts Museum Biannual, Taipei, Taiwan, 1994
• Ross Chambers, Long-Bin Chen and John Lavin, SVA Gallery, New York, 1994
• Taiwan Map, Window Dressing, Dimension Art Center, Taipei, 1994
• Curious Structures, Visual Art Gallery, New York, 1993
• Play, Work, Think, Visual Art Gallery, New York, 1993
• Time Duration, Dimension Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
• Selling Specialty, Go Go Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
• Can Art Be Heritable? Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
• The 5th International Print Biennial of Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
, Taipei, 1991
• Vernacular, Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991
• Shih Hsing New Artist, Shih Hsing Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1987
• Grant of the Nation Endowment for Arts, Taiwan, 2001
• 1998 Grant of the Nation Endowment for Arts, Taiwan, 1998
• The Silver Prize of Osaka Triennial 1998 (sculpture), Osaka, Japan, 1998
• 1997 Grant of the Nation Endowment for Arts, Taiwan, 1997
• 1996 Grant Award of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, 1996
• Visitors Price of the 6 Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Stuttgart, Germany, 1995
• Tung-Hai University Fine Arts Prize, Taiwan, 1988
• 12th Shih Hsing New Artist Prize, Taipei, Taiwan, 1987
• National Print Prize, Taiwan, 1985
• MassMOCA Residency artist, 2005
• Vermont Studio Center Residency artist, U.S.A., 2004
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center Residency artist, U.S.A., 2003
• 18th Street Art Complex Residency artist, U.S.A., 2000
• Lecturer of Shin-Jan University, Taipei, 1997
• Curator for Incertitude, a group show of Chinese and Taiwanese artist, Eight Floor Gallery, New York, 1996
• Curator for Under Naked, Group show of Chinese and Taiwanese artists, 465 Gallery, New York, 1994
• Program director for Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, 1991
• Taiwan National Museum, Taiwan, 1999
• Osaka Culture Bureau, Japan, 1998
• Allan Chasanoff, Private Collection, New York, 1995
• Suho Paper Museum, TaipeiLibenn Aroma Inc., South Ban, Indiana, U.S.A., 1994
• Hsiung Shih Fine Art Magazine, Taipei, 1986
Taiwanese people
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contemporary sculptor.
Biography
Chen Long-bin was born in 1964 in TaipeiTaipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
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. He received a BFA from the Fine Arts Department at Tung-Hai University in Taiwan, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
in New York. He is known for using the cultural debris of our modern society, such as old, discarded books, newspapers, phonebooks, and magazines as the medium for his sculptures. Chen is self-taught in carving wood, but started showing interest in our paper culture as a viable material for art – phonebooks, magazines, and computer paper when PC
Personal computer
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’s began growing popular in 1993. The advent of the personal computer changed the entire nature of information documentation – a role books used to play. Thus, by turning paper into the original wood for his sculptures, Chen offers renewed value to the meaning of paper. He uses chainsaws, drills, band saws, sanders, and scissors, along with other carpenter’s tools to shape his remarkable busts and figures, which appear stone, or even marble like from a distance.
Chen who has won prizes in Europe
Europe
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, Taipei, and Japan
Japan
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, has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums for many years in Japan, Korea
Korea
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, France
France
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, Germany
Germany
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, Hong Kong
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, Italy
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, London
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, Singapore
Singapore
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, Taiwan, and the United States
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, and can also be found in numerous international public and private collections. He has been awarded artist fellowship grants from Taiwan’s National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York and the Freeman Foundation. In 1995, he received the Visitor’s Prize of the Sixth Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
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, Germany. And in 1998, he received the Silver Prize at the Osaka Triennial in Japan.
For Chen, using recycled materials to make art stresses the challenges presented by endless human consumption and waste, as well as the tantamount ecological problems of waste accumulation and disposal, the destruction of forests, and the mindless use of nonrenewable resources. The reams of used computer paper disprove the assurance of the electronic paper-less office, which instead augments the use of paper, as printing is made much easier. Furthermore, his choice of medium also poses as a commentary on the loss of books as aesthetic objects, which have been replaced by mass-produced cheaply made paperbacks.
Books are extremely important to Chen. However, it is not the book itself, but its educational heritage, literary importance, historical knowledge, and the sacredness of the written word that he treasures most.
The type of materials he acquires in a sense determines the sculpture he creates. While in New York, he scoured the streets of Manhattan collecting discarded refuse, scouted offices for their rejected reams of paper, visited brownstone streets to gather cast off telephone books when new ones were distributed. And now, living in Taipei, Chen obtains his material from university libraries and bookstores, publishing companies, archeological museums, and telephone companies.
The special quality of Chen’s works is that people can still read the pages.
“I try to make sculptures that are appropriate for the content of the books. In my concept, the form and content is united together; the content gives me the idea of the form. Yellow Pages give me one kind of idea; books discarded from libraries inspire different styles…” Oftentimes, his art reflects the content of the pages within, such as one hanging installation featuring spirals of books with peepholes in which one can view a scene from the story within the original pages.
Solo exhibitions
• Continental Express, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, 2008• Chen Long-Bin: Reading Sculpture - Culture Warrior, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, 2006
• Buddha Hurricane, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2006
• Reading Sculpture-Los Angeles project, The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica
Santa Mônica
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, CA, 2005
• Reading Sculpture-Kids project, Kidspace at MassMoca, North Adams
North Adams
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, MA, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Atlanta project, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Roma project, Galleria Ca'a d'Oro, Rome
Rome
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, Italy, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Milan project, Galleria Ca'a d'Oro, Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Italy, 2004
• Reading Sculpture-Vermont project, Vermont Studio Center, VT, 2004
• Reading Sculpture, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2003
• Alternative Study, Eslite Bookstore, Taiwan, 1999
• Taiwan Study, Cultural Affairs Department of Taiwan Provincial Government, Taiwan, 1998
• Humanity, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The museum first opened on December 24, 1983 at the former site of the United States Taiwan Defense Command . It was the first purpose built museum in Taiwan to host modern and contemporary art exhibitions...
, Taipei, Taiwan, 1997
• Reading Sculpture, Eight Floor Gallery, New York, 1995
• Culture Empire, American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, 1994
• Tools, Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
Group exhibitions
• Transformation: From ordinary to extraordinary, various Museums across U.S.A and one in Israel, Curate By Barbara J. Bloemink, 2009• Holland Paper Biennial, Museum Rijswijk, Holland, 2008
• CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Apeldoorn
Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland, about 60 miles south east of Amsterdam, in the centre of the Netherlands. It is a regional centre and has 155,000 . The municipality of Apeldoorn, including villages like Beekbergen, Loenen and Hoenderloo, has over 155,000...
, Holland, 2008
• Outside In: A New Focus on Taiwanese Art, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and TECO, Taipei Cultural Center, 2008
• Text Messaging, Islip Museum of Art, New York, 2008
• Second Lives: remixing the ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2008
• Pulp Function, Fuller Craft museum, Brockton, MA, U.S.A, 2007
• Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, Germany, 2007
• Dalai Lama Portrait Project, Dalai Lama Foundation, Travel Show – Morio Art Museum in Tokyo, Cartier Foundation in Paris and Museum in London, Taipei, Berlin, New York, LA, 2006
• Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
, New York, 2006
• Miami Art Fair, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Florida, 2005
• Do a Book: Asian Artists Summer Project 2004, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, NY, 2004
• The Invisible Tread – Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2003
• The Gravity of the Immaterial, Total Museum
Total Museum
The Total Museum is a museum in Seoul, South Korea.Total Museum of ArtAddress: 465-16 Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-848Tel: 02-379-3994Fax: 02-379-0252...
, Seoul, 2002
• Absolut-2001 Los Angeles International, Biennial Art Invitational, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2001
• New Minds – Artistic Creations in Motion, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The museum first opened on December 24, 1983 at the former site of the United States Taiwan Defense Command . It was the first purpose built museum in Taiwan to host modern and contemporary art exhibitions...
, the International Artists’ Village, Planning Office, CCA, Executive Yuan, 2001
• The Gravity of the Immaterial, MoCA Taipei
MoCA Taipei
MoCA Taipei is a museum of contemporary art, located in Taipei, Taiwan.It was built during the period of Japanese rule in 1921 as Jan Cheng Elementary School, which now occupies a new structure on the back of the historical building.After WWII, it hosted the Taipei city government and became an...
, Taipei, 2001
• Osaka Triennial 2001, the Contemporary Art Space Osaka (CASO), Osaka, 2001
• Landscape on the Shelf, American Cultural Center, Taipei, 2000
• Mondo Tiara, Sculpture to Wear Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A., 2000
• San Francisco Art Fair, Robert Berman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2000
• Volume & Form Singapore 1999, Singapore City, National Library, Singapore, 1999
• Play, Paper factory-International Paper Art Festival, Cheng Chuen Cotton Paper Foundation & Cultural Affairs Department Taiwan Provincial Government, Taiwan, 1999
• Vision of Pluralism – Contemporary Art in Taiwan, 1988-1999, China Art Museum, Beijing. Mountain Art Museum, Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...
, 1999
• New Voice: Contemporary art Dialogue Among Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taipei, Hong Kong Art Fair, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, 1998
• Reflection and Reconsideration 2.28 Commemorative Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The museum first opened on December 24, 1983 at the former site of the United States Taiwan Defense Command . It was the first purpose built museum in Taiwan to host modern and contemporary art exhibitions...
, Taipei, 1998
• The Art Season of Taipei Rapid Train Station, National Art Institute, Taipei, 1998
• Osaka Trienniale 1998-Sculpture, Osaka Contemporary Art Center
Osaka Contemporary Art Center
The is an art gallery in Osaka, Japan, administered by Osaka Prefecture.The center started in 1974 as Ōsaka Fumin Gyararī . In 1980 its Japanese name was changed to that used today, on the occasion of its move within Kita-ku from Dōjima to Nakanoshima. In 2000 it moved to Chūō-ku.The Center has a...
, Osaka Gateway to Wisdom, Fubon Art Foundation, Taiwan University, Taipei, 1998
• Feast of Mind, Buffet of Art, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, 1997
• Our Deities, ISE Art Foundation, New York Personal Best, Chassie Post Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996
• A Dialogue of Contemporary Sculpture in Asia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The museum first opened on December 24, 1983 at the former site of the United States Taiwan Defense Command . It was the first purpose built museum in Taiwan to host modern and contemporary art exhibitions...
, Taipei, 1995
• Object Orbit, Chinese-American Arts Council, New York, 1995
• obCkession, TZ'art & Co., New York, 1995
• Triennial der Kleinplastik 1995, Europe-Ostaien, Stuttgart, Germany, 1995
• America vs China, Window Dressing, TZ'art & Co., New York, 1995
• New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
, Co-Sponsored by CAA, New York, 1994
• The Entering Show of Taipei Fine Arts Museum Biannual, Taipei, Taiwan, 1994
• Ross Chambers, Long-Bin Chen and John Lavin, SVA Gallery, New York, 1994
• Taiwan Map, Window Dressing, Dimension Art Center, Taipei, 1994
• Curious Structures, Visual Art Gallery, New York, 1993
• Play, Work, Think, Visual Art Gallery, New York, 1993
• Time Duration, Dimension Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
• Selling Specialty, Go Go Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
• Can Art Be Heritable? Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
• The 5th International Print Biennial of Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The museum first opened on December 24, 1983 at the former site of the United States Taiwan Defense Command . It was the first purpose built museum in Taiwan to host modern and contemporary art exhibitions...
, Taipei, 1991
• Vernacular, Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991
• Shih Hsing New Artist, Shih Hsing Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1987
Awards
• Freeman Foundation Fellowship, 2003• Grant of the Nation Endowment for Arts, Taiwan, 2001
• 1998 Grant of the Nation Endowment for Arts, Taiwan, 1998
• The Silver Prize of Osaka Triennial 1998 (sculpture), Osaka, Japan, 1998
• 1997 Grant of the Nation Endowment for Arts, Taiwan, 1997
• 1996 Grant Award of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, 1996
• Visitors Price of the 6 Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Stuttgart, Germany, 1995
• Tung-Hai University Fine Arts Prize, Taiwan, 1988
• 12th Shih Hsing New Artist Prize, Taipei, Taiwan, 1987
• National Print Prize, Taiwan, 1985
Professional Activities
• Sacatar Residency artist, Brazil, 2006• MassMOCA Residency artist, 2005
• Vermont Studio Center Residency artist, U.S.A., 2004
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center Residency artist, U.S.A., 2003
• 18th Street Art Complex Residency artist, U.S.A., 2000
• Lecturer of Shin-Jan University, Taipei, 1997
• Curator for Incertitude, a group show of Chinese and Taiwanese artist, Eight Floor Gallery, New York, 1996
• Curator for Under Naked, Group show of Chinese and Taiwanese artists, 465 Gallery, New York, 1994
• Program director for Space 2 Gallery, Taipei, 1991
Collections and Projects
• West Collection, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 2004• Taiwan National Museum, Taiwan, 1999
• Osaka Culture Bureau, Japan, 1998
• Allan Chasanoff, Private Collection, New York, 1995
• Suho Paper Museum, TaipeiLibenn Aroma Inc., South Ban, Indiana, U.S.A., 1994
• Hsiung Shih Fine Art Magazine, Taipei, 1986