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Born in Taipei, Taiwan, 1965, Yuan Goang-Ming is a pioneer of video art in Taiwan. Since working with video in 1984, he has received a Master’s degree in Media Art from the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe (1997). He is now one of the foremost Taiwanese artists active in world of International Media Art, with a background of comprehensive media art training. He currently holds a post as the Assistant Professor at the New Media Arts program of Taipei National University of Arts.

Combining symbolic metaphors with technological media, his work eloquently expresses the state of contemporary existence and profoundly explores the human mind and consciousness. In 1992, his work Fish on a Dish was shown to great acclaim in Taiwanese art circles, while The Reason for Insomnia (1998) captured the attention of international audiences. City Disqualified (2002) holds a place in the history of Taiwanese contemporary media art. These works are still being exhibited around the world.
After 2007, Yuan has been exploring new possibilities for video art. Disappearing Landscape (2007) opens with a new format of moving images, combining video art and cinema, displaying the fascinating theatrical-everyday. The upcoming exhibition Before Memory, which will be on view in 2011, combines many years of his in-depth ideas towards moving images, using simultaneous projections and other methods in exhibiting large works of “time and memory,” “body and perception.”

Yuan has been invited by major art museums, art centers and galleries to participate in various exhibitions across Asia, Europe, and America. Among these include: Representing Taiwan in the 50th Venice Biennale (Taiwan Pavilion), 010101: Art in Technological Times at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ICC Biennal (1997) in Japan, Guangzhou Triennial (2005) in China, Liverpool Biennial (2004) in United Kingdom, Auckland Triennial (2004) in New Zealand, Singapore Biennale (2008), Taipei Biennial (1998, 1996, 1992), and Gwangju Biennale (2002) in South Korea. His work is collected by art museums domestic and abroad, in private collection and various organizations. He has also been on the Collections Committee of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Arts Award, Taipei County Arts Award, Public Art, Venice Biennale (Taiwan Pavilion) and the juror of Asia Society Arts Award in the United States.

birth year
1965
Place of Birth
Taipei
Taiwan
Place of Residence
Taipei
Taiwan
education
1997
Diploma Media Arts
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
1994
Institute for New Media
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1989
BFA Department of Fine Arts
National Institute of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2018
Tomorrowland
Hayward Gallery , London , UK
2018
Tomorrowland
TKG+ , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Disappearing Landscape ― PassingⅡ
QAGOMA , Queensland , Australia
2015
Dwelling
Hanart , Hong Kong
2014
An Uncanny Tomorrow
TKG+ , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Scanning Memories: Yuan Goang-Ming's Video Art 1992-2014
Artium Gallery , Fukuoka , Japan
2012
Disappearing Traces
TKG+ Beijing , Beijing , China
2012
Disappearing Landscape -PassingⅡ. Special Project
TKG+ , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Before Memory
TKG+ , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Windows
Pinpon Art Studio , Taipei , Taiwan
2007
Disappearing Landscape
IT Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2002
T2: Yuan, Goang-Ming "Human Disqualified"
MOMA Contemporary , Fukuoka , Japan
2001
Human Disqualified
IT Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2000
Contemporary Taiwanese Art Exhibition Vol.7 Yuan, Goang-Ming Fish on Dish
MOMA Contemporary , Fukuoka , Japan
1998
The Reason for Insomnia
IT Park , Taipei , Taiwan
1992
Out of Position
IT Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
Aichi Triennale 2019
Nagoya , Japan
2019
SYNCHRONICITY: Daisuke Miyatsu Collection x kasama Nichido Museum of Art Blending the quintessence of modern and contemporary art
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art , Ibaraki , Japan
2018
Paradise in Your Heart
Gwangju Museum of Art , Gwangju , Korea
2018
Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence
Chengdu , China
2018
Poetic Utterance
Inart Space , Tainan , Taiwan
2018
Beyond Bliss: Bangkok Art Biennale
Bangkok , Thailand
2018
Birth of a Nation: Focus on Taiwan, DokuFest
Prizren , Republic of Kosovo
2018
Art Night
Hayward Gallery , London , UK
2018
(Not) Just a Historical Document: Hong Kong-Taiwan Video Art 1980-1990s, TIDF
MOCA Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
2050 A Brief History of Future
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2018
Customized Reality: the Lure and Enchantment of Digital Art
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2017
Kaiko no Umi - A reunion with the Sea: Realism of Asian Modern Thought
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum , Okinawa , Japan
2017
Urban Nomadism: 2017 Hangzhou Liangzhu Big Roof International Moving Image Exhibition
Liangzhu Culture and Art Center , Hangzhou , China
2017
The 20th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Transparent Country: Taiwan
Jihlava , Czech Republic
2017
Ghost
Daegu Art Museum , Daegu , Korea
2017
Open Space 2017: Re-envisioning the Future
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] , Tokyo , Japan
2017
The 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival
Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor Art Center , Michigan , USA
2017
Before the Rain
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art , Sydney , Australia
2017
And Now There Are All: Mystery Cases in Contemporary Art
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2016
Springs Eternal: Glenfiddich Artists in Residence - 12 Years from Taiwan
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Mille-feuille de Camélia
Arko Art Center , Seoul , Korea
2016
Memories through Cycle ― Images by RongRong & inri and Yuan Goang-ming
Art Tower Mito , Ibaraki , Japan
2016
Analog Welcom, Digital Archive
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Touring exhibition: Screen Test: Chinese Video Art Since 1980s
CAFA Art Museum, Redtory Museum of Contermporary Art , Bejing, Guangzhou , China
2016
Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Disappearing Landscape ― PassingⅡ
QAGOMA , Queensland , Australia
2016
LA VILLE AU CORPS
Le Carreau du Temple , Paris , France
2016
Art Basel Hong Kong 2016
Hong Kong
2016
YOKO ONO: Water Event
Musée d'art contemporain , Lyon , France
2016
KIK EIGHT-GANZ GROSSES KINO
Kino International , Berlin , Germany
2016
Beyond 2°
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara , California , USA
2015
Biennale de Lyon: La Vie Moderne
Lyon , France
2015
ART SPACE: GERMANY
Kuandu Museum of Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015
Jeonbuk Museum of Art , Jeonbuk , Korea
2015
The 13th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition
MoNTUE, Museum of National Taipei University of Education , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Phantom of Civilization
Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain Luxembourg
2015
REWIND_ Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999
Kuandu Museum of Fine Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Mobile M+: Moving Images
Midtown POP , Hong Kong
2015
Taipei Film Festival
SKCINEMAS, SPOT-Huashan , Taipei
2014
Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
Fukuoka , Japan
2014
We Love Video This Summer
Pace Beijing , Beijing , China
2014
Taiwan: Asia Anarchy Alliance
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
The Other, The Distance
Hubei Museum of Arts , Hubei , China
2014
For for for forest
TKG+ Projects , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists, 1961-1970
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2014
Japan: Asia Anarchy Alliance
Tokyo Wondersite , Tokyo , Japan
2014
Traces of Disappearance
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo , Tokyo , Japan
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Les Instant Video
Marseille , France
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0
Ambika P3, University of Westminster , London , UK
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0
La Maison des metallos , Paris , France
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Transmediale 2014
Berlin , Germany
2013
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, CYBERFEST 2013
Hermitage Museum , St. Petersberg , Russia
2013
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Ars Electronica 2013
Linz , Austria
2013
Dojima River Biennale 2013: Little Water
Dojima River Forum , Osaka , Japan
2013
Rolling! Visual Art in Taiwan
Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul , Korea
2013
Design Shanghai 2013
Power Station of Art , Shanghai , China
2013
Intersecting Vectors ― Experimental Projects from the TFAM Collection
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Inter-vision, A Contemporary Art Exhibition Across the Strait 2013
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2013
Inter-vision, A Contemporary Art Exhibition Across the Strait 2013
National Art Museum of China , Beijing , China
2013
Liquid Asia
Duddell's Hong Kong
2012
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7)
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery Of Modern Art, (QAGOMA) , Queensland , Australia
2012
MADATAC 04 Contemporary Advanced New Media Audiovisual Art Festival
CENTROCENTRO CIBELES DE CULTURA Y CIUDADANÍA. 5Cs , Madrid , Spain
2012
Digital Aesthetics 2012
Harris Museum and Art Gallery , Preston , U.K.
2012
Transjourney 2012-New Media Festival
Kuandu Muaeum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Crush on EMU
MOCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art) , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Creators of Dialogue
Kuandu Muaeum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
How Physical-Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography , Tokyo , Japan
2012
Visual Vertigo-New Works by Six Taiwanese New Media Artists
Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Asian Art Biennial
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2011
Moving Image of China 1988-2011
Minsheng Art Museum , Shanghai , China
2011
Tai-uan iánn-Imaging Art Exhibition
MainTrend Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Art Museum @ The Art Park ‧ Selected Collection Series ── HYPNOTISM
Art Museum @ The Art Park , Hsinchu , Taiwan
2010
Cinema Alley 2011
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art , Sydney , Australia
2010
Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue
TKG+ , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Humanity in Ambiguities: Permanent Collection of TFAM
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Taiwan calling- Phantom of Liberty
Műcsarnok Kunst Halle , Budapest , Hungary
2010
Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair 2010
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre , Hong Kong
2010
Photo Taipei Art Fair-Feature Exhibition: Taiwanese Video
Sunworld Dynasty Hotel , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Every Chalice is a Dwelling Place
Taipei City Hall , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Extreme Sensibility-Taiwanese Contemporary Video Art
Donna Beam Art Gallery at University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Dishman Art Museum at Larmar University, Allen R. Hite Art Institute at University of Louisille , Las Vegas, Beaumont, Louisille , USA
2009
Ela-Asia, Art Taipei 2009
Taipei World Trade Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Artium's 20th Anniversary Show
Mitsubishi Jisho Artium , Fukuoka , Japan
2009
You are home
Plimsoll Gallery , Tasmania , Australia
2009
Nostalgia for Future
A-7958 Gallery , Taichung , Taiwan
2009
Contemporary Value: A Processing History
Ever Harvest Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Unsealed Files: The 3rd Anniversary of VT Artsalon
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden
Chelsea Art Museum , New York , USA
2008
Border of Virtuality - Chinese and Korean Media Art Now Exhibition
Han Ji Yun Contemporary Space , Beijing , China
2008
Pacific Meridian, International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries
Vladivostok , Russia
2008
Daegu International New Media Arts Festival 2008
Daegu Culture and Arts Center , Daegu , Korea
2008
IN BETWEEN, Asian Video Art Weekend
Mori Art Museum , Tokyo , Japan
2008
Polynôme
mairie du 12e , Paris , France
2008
HOME-Taiwan Biennial 2008
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2008
Dwelling Place-Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2008
Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
A Heartbeat of Time: A Group Exhibition of Glenfiddich Resdiency Artists
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art , Beijing , China
2008
Singapore Biennale 2008: Wonder
Singapore
2008
Second Vision
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2008
Snake Alley, Asian Contemporary Art Week
The Taipei Cultural Cente , New York , USA
2008
Bubble Tea: Contemporary Art from Taiwan
Moravska Galerie Brno , Brno , Czech Republic
2008
Pass-Future:The Future Museum of National Palace Museum
Taoyuan International Airport , Taoyuan , Taiwan
2007
Styles of Radical Will—The Multiform Nineties: Taiwan's Contemporary Art
Soka Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2007
Post Martial Law vs. Post ’89- The Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2007
Post Martial Law vs. Post ’89- The Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China
Songzhuang Art Museum , Beijing , China
2007
Parody@Beijing
Dimension of Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2007
Parody@Beijing
Dimension of Art Beijing , Beijing , China
2007
X-Generation — National Taiwan Museum of Digital Art Collection Exhibition
Enghien-Les-Bain , France
2007
Taiwan: From Within The Mist
Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science, Art Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Museum, University of Indianapolis , Sioux Falls, SD, Indiana, IN , USA
2007
Taiwan: From Within The Mist
Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art , Vancouver , Canada
2007
Boom! An Interplay of Fast and Frozen Permutation in New Media-Taiwan-Australia New Media Arts Exhibition
International Exhibition Hall at National Taiwan University of the Arts, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2006
Taipei/Taipei: Views and Points
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2006
Beyond Experience New China
Arario , Beijing , China
2006
Bitmap
Loop Gallery , Seoul , Korea
2006
A Glimpse Contemporary Art in Taiwan
Museum of Contemporary Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2006
Macro Vision, Micro Analysis, Multiple Reflections – Contemporary Art in Taiwan since 1987
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2005
The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Beyond: An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization
Guangdong Museum of Art , Guangzhou , China
2005
A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography
Helsinki City Art Museum , Helsinki , Finland
2005
Dreams and Being, Multiple Realities in Contemporary Taiwan Photography and Painting
City Hall Art Gallery at Ottawa City Hall , Ottawa , Canada
2005
Dreams and Being, Multiple Realities in Contemporary Taiwan Photography and Painting
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2005
Contemporary Art from Taiwan at the Venice Biennale
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2004
Ruins and Civilization
Eslite Vision Art Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2004
2004 Liverpool Biennial
Tate Modern , Liverpool , UK
2004
Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornel University , New York , USA
2004
The 2nd Auckland Triennial: PUBLIC/PRIVATE
Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tämaki , Auckland , New Zealand
2004
Simulation-The Poetics of Imaging in the Technology Age
Aspire Resort , Taoyaun , Taiwan
2004
Pingyao International Photography Festival
Pingyao , China
2004
New-Contemporary Photo of China
Galerie Enrico Navarra , Paris , France
2004
Dreams and Being, Multiple Realities in Contemporary Taiwan Photography and Painting
Centre Culturel de Taiwan à Paris , Paris , France
2004
The Story of Time: Selections from TFAM Collection
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2004
Taipei MOMA Online
Taipei MOMA , Taipei , Taiwan
2004
The 3rd Artist Fair
Hua Shan Cultural and Creative Industry center , Taipei , Taiwan
2004
2004 Technology Art
Taoyuan , Taiwan
2003
Limbo Zone, The 50th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
Venice , Italy
2003
A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography
National Gallery of Prague , Prague , Czech Republic
2003
Taiwan art/film/video festival
Lothringer13/Laden , München , Germany
2003
New Photography
Hannart Gallery Hong Kong
2003
Assorted Asian Tigers
Proud Gallery , London , UK
2003
RANDOM-IZE Taipei
Eslite Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2003
25hrs Barcelona, International video art show
Barcelona , Spain
2003
Streams of Encounter – electronic media based artworks
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2003
Cyber Asia- Media Art in the Near Future
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art , Hiroshima , Japan
2003
Invisible City
The Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Center A) , Vancouver , Canada
2003
Invisible City
Tirol Transfer Gallery Krinzinger , Vienna , Austria
2003
Simulation-The Poetics of Imaging in the Technology Age
Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Exhibition
The 1st Annual Kuandu Light Art Festival
Taipei National University of Arts
Taipei , Taiwan
2007
Exhibition
Boom! An Interplay of Fast and Frozen Permutation in New Media-Taiwan-Australia New Media Arts Exhibition
International Exhibition Hall at National Taiwan University of the Arts, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Taipei , Taiwan
2006
Exhibition
SlowTech
MOCA
Taipei , Taiwan
2004
Exhibition
Media Cramp (part of C04 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta II: Nexus – Next to Us!)
Main Trend Gallery
Taipei , Taiwan
2001
 
Exhibition Allowance
National Culture and Arts Foundation
Taiwan
2000
Jury Prize
The 1st Art future 2000
 
Taipei , Taiwan
1998
 
Exhibition Allowance
National Culture and Arts Foundation
Taiwan
1998
 
Creation Allowance
National Culture and Arts Foundation
Taiwan
1997
Grand Prize
The 25th Taipei Annual Arts Competition
 
Taiwan
1993
Grand Prize
The 5th Art Exhibition of Taipei County
 
Taiwan
1993
 
DAAD Germany Exchange Scholarship
 
Germany
1989
Golden Grain Prize
13th Excellent Experimental Videotape
 
Taipei , Taiwan
1989
Golden Griddle Prize
2nd Excellent Culture Videotape
 
Taipei , Taiwan
1988
Silver Medal
13th Hsiung Shih New Promising Artists
 
Taipei , Taiwan
KEYWORDS
SELECTED ARTWORKS
Photography
288x230 (cm)
01 / 10
Disappearing Landscape - PassingⅡ : Scene
New Media Art , Video Art ,
Three-frequency Projection
9'14"
Three-frequency Projection
9'14"
Three-frequency Projection
9'14"
Three-frequency Projection
9'14"
Three-frequency Projection
9'14"
Three-frequency Projection
9'14"
01 / 10
Disappearing Landscape – Passing Ⅱ
New Media Art , Video Art ,
Mixed Media Installation
Mixed Media Installation
Mixed Media Installation
Mixed Media Installation
Mixed Media Installation
01 / 10
Disappearing Portrait
2011
New Media Art , Video Art ,
Photography
120x180 (cm)
Photography
120x180 (cm)
01 / 10
A Portrait in the Memory
2011
New Media Art , Video Art ,
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2011, New Media Art , Video Art
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2011, New Media Art , Video Art
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2011, New Media Art , Video Art
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2008, New Media Art , Video Art
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2007, New Media Art , Video Art
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2007, New Media Art , Video Art
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2007, New Media Art , Video Art
YUAN Goang-Ming, 2007, New Media Art , Video Art
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