Chen Shiau-Peng was born in Penghu, Taiwan (the Pescadores) in 1976. She studied art at Taipei National University of the Arts, Pratt Institute, Victorian College of the Arts and RMIT University. The artist has held solo exhibitions in Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, IT Park, SNO Contemporary Art Projects and RMIT Building 49. She has participated in artist-in-residence programs in Taipei Artist Village, The 18th Street Art Center, Glenfiddich Distillery, Anderson Ranch Art Center and Taitung Railway Art Village. Shiau-Peng Chen works in painting, printmaking, textual and three-dimensional installation. Her early works deal with issues of forms and concepts of infinity, in which jigsaw and tangram puzzles provided a contemplative point of departure. Experiences of living in different urban locations have provided a foundation creative content in recent years. These explore issues encountered and contemplated by the artist at specific times and locations, including the connections between man and the city, the artist’s state of living, and observations of national identity, etc.