SITE-Liao Chien-Chung Solo Exhibition

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Artists' Profile

 

Artist Liao Chien-Chung

Liao Chien-Chung (b. 1972) was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds a BFA from Taipei National University of the Arts. In the early stage of his career, he published his works in the name of the artist collective, “Nation Oxygen.” Later, he published a series of personal works, entitled Surface Engineering Method, which employs a mimetic approach to replicate appearances – and only appearances – of real objects, as a way to respond to the various dilemmas and problems in contemporary life. He has held solo exhibitions at Eslite Gallery, IT Park, Double Square Gallery, VT Artsalon in Taipei and Absolute Art Space for the Arts in Tainan; and his works have been showcased in group exhibitions at MOCA Taipei, Double Square Gallery, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Nantou, Chimei Museum in Tainan, The Pier 2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, etc. He has conducted artist residencies at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the Glenfiddich Distillery in Scotland. Some of his large-scale installations are included in the collection of the White Rabbit Gallery in Australia. Liao currently lives and works near Bali Ferry Wharf in Tamsui, where his studio is located.

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Curator Yuan-Ta Hsu

Dr. Yuan-Ta Hsu is an Assistant Professor and art critic at Tainan University of Technology in Taiwan. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Fine Arts Doctoral Program at Texas Tech University, with his dissertation, entitled Memories and Identities: Hsiang Chou in the Photographic Works of Lang Jing-Shan and Chen Shun-Chu. Dr. Hsu received M.A. in Art Criticism, Graduate Institute of Art History and Art Criticism in 2004 from Tainan National University of the Arts. He specializes in the Taiwanese art history, with an emphasis on contemporary Taiwanese sculpture and the history of photography. His research focuses on nostalgia, memories, identities and local folk culture in Taiwanese history. In addition, his recent work explores Tainan contemporary art history since the 1980s.

Dr. Hsu has curated several exhibitions, among which are Sio pang phuann (Labour Exchange) Opening Exhibition of the Taikang Culture Center (2019, Taikang Culture Center, Tainan); Sui Generis: Jing-Pai of Taiwan I, II, III (2018-2019, IT Park, Taipei); Seascape: Lee, Jiun-Shyan Solo Exhibition (2017, Absolute Space, Tainan); the 2017 Traveling Exhibition of Excellent Tainan Artists: “Tainan Ablaze: A Duo Exhibition by Hsu, Tzu-Kuey & Tsneg, Ying-Tung” (2017-2018, Tainan, Taipei, Taichung, Yilan and Kaohsiung); Fully Loaded Tainan - New York (2017, Pfizer Building, New York, US); Body Grid–Consciousness in Interstice of Chair Group Exhibition (2017, Tainan); Evoke: The Revealed Taiwanese Subjectivity (2016, Tainan); Sweet Memories–Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival 2016 (2016, Tainan); Guerrilla Group–Bai Ma Tou (2003, Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival, Kaohsiung). Most of these exhibitions examine Taiwanese culture, history, memories and identities.

 

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