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CHEN Yin-Ju
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Artist Yin-Ju Chen interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilizing astrology, sacred geometries, and alchemical symbols, she considers human behavior, nationalism, imperialism, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations, and collective thinking. Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual/ shamanic practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness.

She has participated in many international exhibitions and film festivals, such as Taipei Biennial (TW, 2020, 2012), Gwangju Biennale (KR 2021), the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (RU, 2019), International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL, 2018, 2011), Transmediale (DE, 2018), Liverpool Biennial (UK, 2016), Forum Expanded at 66th Berlinale (DE, 2016), Biennial of Sydney (AU, 2016), "Yin-Ju Chen: Extrastellar Evaluations" (US, 2016), "Action at a Distance–Yin-Ju Chen Solo Exhibition" (TW, 2015), "The Starry Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within" (TW, 2015), Shanghai Biennial (CN, 2014), "A Journal of the Plague Year" (HK, KR, US, TW 2013-2014).

birth year
1977
Place of Birth
Taipei
Taiwan
education
2003
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA., USA
2000
Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
personal website
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2018
Yin-Ju Chen - Notes on Psychedelics II: Inside a Memorable Fancy
Chi-Wen Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
Extrastellar Evaluations III: Entropy: 25800 — Yin-Ju Chen Solo Exhibition
TKG+ Projects , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Extrastellar Evaluations II – A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art , Manchester , UK
2016
Yin-Ju Chen: Extrastellar Evaluations
KADIST San Francisco , San Francisco, CA , USA
2016
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: Works by Yin-Ju Chen
SF Cinemtheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco, CA , USA
2015
Action at a Distance - Yin-Ju Chen Solo Exhibitio
IT PARK , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Other Cinema- East-West Essays: New Perspectives on New Asia
Artists' Television Accces , San Francisco, CA , USA
2019
Yin-Ju Chen - Extrastellar Evaluations III : Entropy : 2580
K4 galleri/ STRUKTURA , Oslo , Norway
2019
To Other Shores: On Techno-Sinofuturism and AI Artist Bots
ACUD Kino , Berlin , Germany
2019
Co/Inspiration in Catastrophes
Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
The Deficit Faction
Long March Project , Beijing , China
2019
Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheist Theist
Waley Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
'Ebbs of Mothers, Flows of Daughters', Women Make Waves Taiwan and The Other Cinema
Taipei , Taiwan
2019
FOCUS #13 FLUX DE MÈRES, REFLUX DE FILLES, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
Paris , France
2019
The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art
Ural , Russia
2019
The Ouroboros
The Cube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
The Ouroboros
Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain Luxembourg
2019
The 4th Taiwan International Cat Film Festival
The Cube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
Gendered Bodies in Southeast Asia
Metropolitan Museum of Manila , Manila , Philippines
2018
EX!T 9 - Experimental Media Art Festival in Taiwan 2018: WHITEUMENTA
venue , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
2018 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Jihlava , Czech Republic
2018
Metropolis of the Future: A futurology Study of Asian Mega-Cities
Tentacle , Bangkok , Thailand
2018
Taiwan Biennial
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2018
Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine and Self
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2018
The Mindful Intervention
Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen , Vijfhuizen , Netherlands
2018
General Rehearsal: A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA, and KADIST
Moscow Museum of Modern Art , Moscow , Russia
2018
TRACE: Wayfinding in Contemporary New Media Art
Museum of Contemporary Art , Belgrade , Serbia
2018
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
Rotterdam , Netherlands
2018
Transmediale - Face Value
Haus der Kulturen der Welt , Berlin , Germany
2018
OSMOSIS Russia -DATA MANIA
Media Art Centre Now & After , Moscow , Russia
2017
PARKLIFE
Chi-Wen Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Projects, Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW)
New York , USA
2017
Digital Break: New Perspectives on Taiwanese Moving Image, 2017 Osmosis UK Screening & Exhibition
UK
2017
Video on the Road
Polymer , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Occulture: The Dark Arts
City Gallery Wellington , Wellington , New Zealand
2017
Digital Break: New Perspectives on Taiwanese Moving Image, EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul
Seoul , Korea
2017
The South: an Art of Asking and Listing
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2017
No Such Thing As Gravity
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung
2017
The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away
Times Museum , Guangzhou , China
2017
Line of Times
MILL6 Foundation Hong Kong
2016
No Such Thing As Gravity
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) , Liverpool , UK
2016
Liverpool Biennial 2016
Liverpool , UK
2016
Research, RE: researched
Post Territory Ujeongguk , Seoul , Korea
2016
Not Early Not Late
PACE Gallery , Beijing , China
2016
Extrastellar Evaluations: Yin-Ju Chen at Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool – A Dialogue Between Yin-Ju Chen, Tsui Kuang-Yu, and Chen Chieh-Jen
Chi-Wen Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
20th Biennale of Sydney
Sydney , Australia
2016
Xiaoyu Weng – Soft Crash
GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea , Bergamo , Italy
2016
Stars and Monsters
Neptune Hong Kong
2016
Crosstalk Video Art Festival
Budapest , Hungary
2016
CROSSROADS 2016
San Francisco Cinematheque , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2016
Berlinale 2016 -- Foreum Expanded: Traversing the Phantasm
Berlin , Germany
2015
Behold the Asian : How One Becomes What One is, James T. Hong and Yin-Ju Chen
Chi-Wen Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
corruption: Everybody Knows..
e-flux , New York , USA
2015
NEoN Digital Arts Festival
Scotland
2015
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within
The Cube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Interrupted Survey (Fractured Modern Mythologies)
Asia Culture Center (ACC) , Gwangju , Korea
2015
VIDEOEX - Experimentalfilm & Video Festival
Zurich , Switzerland
2015
Language is a Virus
Ilam Campus Gallery, Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand
2015
Provisional Heaven
Resusalon , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2015
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story
Kadist Foundation , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2014
Shanghai Biennale 2014 - Social Factory
Power Station of Art , Shanghai , China
2014
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Artists' Cinema India
2014
Spectres of the Past
Chi-Wen Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story
Arko Museum , Seoul , Korea
2014
The Return of Ghosts – 2014 Taiwan International Video Art
Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
It's Not A Real Film
TamtamArt Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Dead Souls at the Test Drive
Wei-Li Yeh Studio , Yangmei , Taiwan
2014
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story
The Cube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
the 2nd CAFAM Biennale - The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture
The Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum , Beijing , China
2013
'Utopien vermeiden' - Werkleitz Anniversary Festival
Halle , Germany
2013
Film Screening: James T. Hong and Yin-Ju Chen
Chi-Wen Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Counterplanning from the Kitchen
Kino Moviemento Berlin , Berlin , Germany
2013
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story
Para Site Hong Kong
2012
In the Wintry Thicket of Metropolitan Civilization
Ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum , Bolzano , Italy
2012
houseWORK: feminist art in context
University of the Pacific's Reynolds Gallery , Stockton, CA. , USA
2012
Arcane of Patterns - Inceptive of Rythm, an Order and Summon
Mindpirates Projektraum , Berlin , Germany
2012
Taipei Biennial 2012 - Death and Life of Fiction
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
FREAK OUT
Synchronicity Space , Los Angeles, CA. , USA
2012
PLUS C'EST GROS, PLUS CA PASSE
Galerie Le Treize , Paris , France
2012
Karel Appel House Open
Karel Appel House , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2011
Techno-ecologies: XIII International Festival for New Media Culture
Art+Communication , Riga , Latvia
2011
Rijksakademie OPEN 2011
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2011
A Selected History of Abstract Film
Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , UK
2011
Selections of Works by Hong and Chen
Kino Satellite , Berlin , Germany
2011
11th Signal and Noise Media Arts Festival
VIVO Media Arts Centre , Vancouver, BC , Canada
2011
We Live Underground: A temporary exhibition
TrouwAmsterdam - De Verdieping , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2011
European Media Art Festival 2011
Osnabrück , Germany
2011
Karel Appel House Open
Karel Appel House , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2011
Edition N.1 – Wonderland
GlogauAIR Gallery , Berlin , Germany
2011
Magic for Beginners
Skalitzer 140/ Temporary , Berlin , Germany
2011
remise: animation
Städtische Galerie Haus Coburg , Delmenhorst , Germany
2010
Tangible Intangible
tamtamArt , Berlin , Germany
2010
End Transmission
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum , Kristiansand , Norway
2010
RijksakademieOPEN 2010
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2010
Animated Images
Goethe-Institut, Taipei Digital Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Karel Appel House Open
Karel Appel House , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2009
Multitud Singular
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía , Madrid , Spain
2009
Kings of the Sky
UnionDocs , Brooklyn, NY. , USA
2008
The Prison House of Technology
UnionDocs , Brooklyn, NY. , USA
2007
Imported Landscapes
Safe-T- Gallery , New York, NY. , USA
2007
Alternative Visions: When a Stranger Comes to Town: recent Animations
Pacific Film Archive , Berkeley, CA. , USA
2007
Wunderkammer, 2nd Annual Garage Biennale
San Francisco, CA. , USA
2007
Das Prekarium
Arttransponder , Berlin , Germany
2007
Notthatbalai Art Festival
Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
2006
Gen Art SF: EMERGE!
Warfield Building , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2006
Dislocations
NewYorkRioTokio , Berlin , Germany
2006
State of Exception
Studio 27 , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2006
Light Cone Preview Show
Centre Pompidou , Paris , France
2005
APAture 2005: A window on the art of young Asian Pacific Americans
Somarts Cultural Center , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2005
Pirated
Somarts Cultural Center , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2004
Mayhem
Southern Exposure , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2004
En el patio video-arte desde San Francisco en Bogota
Valenzuela y Klenner Gallery , Bogotá , Colombia
2004
APAture 2004: A window on the art of young Asian Pacific Americans
Somarts Cultural Center , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2003
The Element of temporary
New Langton Arts , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2002
Loaded
Dorothy W. and C. Lawson Reed, Jr. Gallery , Cincinnati, AR. , USA
2002
Pedestrian Imposter
Galeria De La Raza , San Francisco, CA. , USA
2000
Decomposition of all living organisms
Leisure Arts Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2000
Improvisation
Crown Arts Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
WARE – Wellington Asia Residency Exchange programme
Wellington , New Zealand
2016
Kadist Art Fondation
San Francisco , USA
2013
Artspace Visual Arts Centre
Sydney , Australia
2010-2011
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2016
Article
Action at a Distance: A non-Scientific Methond and Practice
Art Criticism in Taiwan (ACT)
No. 67/2016.07  
2015
Article
THE FRUITARIAN DILEMMA: A DIALOGUE ABOUT KISSING ASS, CORRUPTION, AND COMPROMISE, by Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong
e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY
2015.07  
2013
Article
ONE UNIVERSE, ONE GOD, ONE NATION: When fragments of thoughts come together
Other Zine
2013.02  
2012
Article
Three Options
Modern Art Bimonthly
2012.03-04  
2006
Article
From Cremaster Cycle to Drawing Restraint 9 - Matthew Barney's Total Work of Art
2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
   
2006
Article
Barney-Style Romance: Drawing Restraint 9
2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival News
no.5  
2006
Article
Another Variant of the Gender Myth: Cremaster Cycle
2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival News
no.2  
2011
Nominee, best short film
Tiger Awards
40th International film festival Rotterdam
Rotterdam , Netherlands
2007
First Prize, Video art
10th Sagunt Sort Film Festival
 
Sagunt , Spain
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Prologue - as Above, so Below
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One Universe, One God, One Nation
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