Wu Chien-Hsing

Wu Chien-Hsing (b. 1987) was born in Puli, Nantou County, Taiwan. Wu received his BFA from Chinese Culture University in 2011 and his MFA from National Taipei University in 2017. His work spans multiple artistic mediums, including painting, mixed media, installation, video, sculpture, and performance art. Wu often utilizes everyday objects in his work, stimulating discussion around their external form and internal energy as well as their potential for transformation and preservation. His early works dialogue with the concept of “home,” constructed interpersonal networks, and value systems, taking these as his main points of creative departure. Through means of artistic expression, Wu singles out parallels between the transformation of Taiwan’s industrial landscape and the course of his own life, over which he watched his family’s business deteriorate with the decline of traditional industry. Through his work, the artist seeks to find a new voice for these withering industries, increasing their visibility. Simultaneously, the artist reinserts his aforementioned personal experiences and the history of industry in Taiwan back into a larger narrative of Taiwan’s transformation under modernization: from agriculture and its processing to the electronics industry to family factories and the relocation of production.In recent years, the artist has used his own body as a creative medium, as he places himself in different urban spaces and lends his form as a means to stitch together different cultures.

Solo Exhibitions
2022 New York New Yorker, Dumbo Area, Brooklyn, New York
2018 In Pair–Wishing House, Hsinchu City Government, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2015 The Double–Edged Sword Between Lives, Accton Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2014 Tiny Times Lndustrial Co., FreeS Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Illusion, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2012 Parallel Crossing, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Group Exhibitions
2024 Design Contest of Local Hakka Memorial,Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 Y.E.S. Taiwan X, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 Artcross The Universe, Da Xin Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2024 Voices，Nangang Bottle Cap Factory, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Hualien Art Exhibition, Hualien, Taiwan
2023 Similarity in Art and Sustainability:ESG targets on Creative Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2023 Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2023 Where we belong” Lunar New Year Special Exhibition, Tainan, Taiwan
2022 FROM URBAN REVERENCY TO URBAN DIVERGENCE，COPE NYC and IW Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2022 ArtfN(Art From New), Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 ART IN DUMBO,Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Taiwan Sculpture New Art Award, Tun District Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
2021 If There Were Gaps Between Choices: Does Free Will Really Exist? , Art Bank Taiwan, Venue, Taichung, Taiwan
2017 The Images Of The Island, Image Museum of Hsinchu City, Hsinchc, Taiwan
2016 Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art 2016,KOELNMESSE HALL 1&2 ,Germany, Koeln
2016 Open Contemporary Album 2016, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Dream Habitations, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 FORMOSA Sculputre Biennial, The Pier 2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015 The Second Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015 ARTFEST, URS 21, Taipei,Taiwan
2015 ARTIST FAIR TAIWAN,Taipei Expo Park-Expo Dome, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 This is not a poisoned apple(Creative Excellence Award), KdMoFA, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Wheel × Will, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015 The 2nd “CAFAM˙Future” Exhibition Observer-Creator, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014 The Infinite Imaginary Space, Yishu 8 Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2014 Art Taipei Made In Taiwan, Taipei World Trade Centeri, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 CHANGING IDENTITY, CSW Znaki Czasu, Poland, Warsaw
2014 HIHEY ART T3 Arts Festival, Beijing Airport, Beijing, China
2013 ThaiTai: A Measure of Understanding, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 The 11th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, Taoyuan City Government, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2012 Keywords—- Asynchronous Lifeworld, Juming Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 THAITAI FEVER - STAGE ONE: We‘re OPEN, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2012 Busan Flower village International Nature Arts Festival, ARTinNATURE, Busan, Korea
2012 19991121>20130421 Part One, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Biennialscope Project—Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Collections
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Awards and Residencies
2022 March-Jun, Artist in Residence, Triangle Arts Association, New York, the United States
2021 November, Taiwan Sculpture New Art Award, Tun District Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
2015 December, Creative Excellence Award, KdMoFA, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 August, Art Taipei Made In Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 April, The 11th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, Taoyuan City Government, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2012 March, Artist in Residence, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2012 June, Artist in Residence, Busan Flower Village, Busan, Korea

Website：https://www.wuchienhsing.art/project
Instagram：wu.art
Tel: +886 912653167
Email: bkc510@gmail.com
Website：https://www.wuchienhsing.art/project