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LAST UPDATE : 2023.02.4 / EDITOR : tcaa
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Wu Chi-Yu (b. 1986) is an artist based in Taipei. Chi-Yu’s work has long been focusing on re-establishing the connections among humans, things, animals, and the ruined world left by technic capitalism. His practice revolves around the moving image, looking for contemporary narratives in lost memory through the reproducing of oral history and myths. He is also involved in different collaboration projects of installation, video installation, and performance.

Wu Chi-Yu was a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (2014-2015). He had the solo show: “91 Square Meters of Time” (TKG+ Project, Taipei 2017). The exhibitions he once participated include: “The 12th Shanghai Biennale” (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018); “Trans-Justice” (MOCA, Taipei, 2018); Taipei Biennial (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2016). His films have been screened at the Beijing International Short Film Festival (2017); EXiS Festival, Seoul (2017); Arkipel Festival, Jakarta (2016).

birth year
1986
Place of Birth
Taipei
Taiwan
Place of Residence
Taipei
Taiwan
education
2011
MFA Department of New Media Art
Taipei National University of the Arts
2008
BFA Department of Fine Arts
Taipei National University of the Arts
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2022
The Epoch of Other Things
TKG+ , Taipei , Taiwan
2021
Atlas of the Closed Worlds
TheCube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
91 Square Meters of Time
TKG+ Projects , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Flies 8 : The Ten Thousand Beings
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2022
Multispecies Clouds
Macalline Art Center , Fujian , China
2022
Pailang Museum of Settler Colonialism-BLEED (Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital)
MoCA , Taipei , Taiwan
2021
From Object to Cosmos
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2020
Liquid Love
MOCA Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Love Songs
Each Modern , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2020
The Oceans and the Interpreters
Hong-gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Talking Drums Radio: Season 3
TheCube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
So Far, So Right
Display , Prague , Czech
2019
Sensuous Tua-Tiu-Tiann (Wu Chi-Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying)
Taipei Contemporary Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
The Ouroboros
The Cube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
The Ouroboros
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art Contemporain Luxembourg
2019
Serious Games
HOW Art Museum , Shanghai , China
2019
Letter, Callus, Post-War
Galeri Lorong , Yogyakarta , Indonesia
2019
Letter, Callus, Post-War
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
The Nomad Sets Off For the Desert
Display , Prague , Czech
2019
Talking Drums Radio (Wu Chi-Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying)
The Cube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
Shanghai Biennale: Proregress
Power Station of Art , Shanghai , China
2018
Re-Base: When Experiments Become Attitude
C-Lab , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
Crush (Wu Chi-Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying)
Para Site Hong Kong
2018
Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology
MOCA Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
Against Architecture
SeMA Storage , Seoul , Korea
2018
f(r)iction in between
Werkschauhalle , Leipzig , Germany
2018
Data Mania — Now&After’18
CCI Fabrika , Moscow , Russia
2017
So Far, So Right
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Taipei Arts Awards
MOCA Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
The Aftermath: The Lift of Martial Law
Liang Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Tropical Cyclone
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Beyond Freedom (Wu Chi-Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying)
Cattle Depot Artist Village Hong Kong
2017
A Map Of The World That Does Not Include Utopia Is Not Worth Glancing At (Wu Chi-Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying)
Beijing Commune , Beijing , China
2017
365 Days: Life Muse
Art Centre Silpakorn University , Bangkok , Thailand
2016
For a Better Tomorrow
InCube Arts , New York , USA
2016
Portrait Portrait (Wu Chi-Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying)
Taipei Contemporary Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Event Notes
GArt , Nanjing , China
2016
Taipei Biennial: Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future (Wu Chi- Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying)
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Engage, Exchange
De Nederlandsche Bank , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2015
Rijksakademie Open 2015
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2015
Wild Legend
Juming Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
The 2nd CAFAM- Future Exhibition: Observer- Creator, The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art
CAFA Art Museum , Beijing , China
2015
A Climate Fictionalism
Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Rijksakademie Open 2014
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2014
The Other, The Distance
Hubei Museum of Art , Wuhan , China
2014
The Other, The Distance
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin , Berlin , Germany
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Ars Electronica
Linz , Austria
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0
La Maison des Metallos , Paris , France
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0
Ambika P3 , London , UK
2014
Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Instants Video Festival
Marseille , France
2014
It's not a REAL film
tamtamART TAIPEI IPIX , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
The Wormhole Theater
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2013
Here, There, and Everywhere
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon , Seoul , Korea
2013
Asynchronous States — AIA Asia in Independent Asia
VT Artsalon, FreeS Art Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Stranger
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2013
Green Box: Remapping — The Space of Media Reality
Tianhong Mei Heyuan Arts Center , Hangzhou , China
2012
9th Busan International video festival
Openspace Bae , Busan , South Korea
2012
Crush on EMU
MOCA Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Ambiguous Being
tamtamART , Berlin , Germany
2012
Ambiguous Being
Kav16 Community Gallery for Contemporary Art , Tel Aviv , Isreal
2012
Ambiguous Being
Houg-gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Sincere Subversion
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2011
Transparent Refraction
tamtamArt , Berlin , Germany
2011
Flu-Fatigue Video Screening
Taipei Contemporary Arts Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Donʼt Brush off What You See
Meme Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Trans-Plex Weaving Platform
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Video Taiwan
FRAC NordPasde Calais , Taipei , France
2010
Bio-Image (Fuxinghen Studio)
Paint House Studio, Pingpong Artspace , Tainan, Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Trans-Plex
Tokyo Wander Site Hongo , Tokyo , Japan
2010
Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art 2010 (Fuxinghen Studio)
Taipei Contemporary Arts Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
The practice of everyday
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Prattle
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Channel V
SinPinPierArt Space , Kaoshiung , Taiwan
2009
POST.O — The Reverse of TOPOS (Fuxinghen Studio)
MOCA Taipei Plaza , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Squid 5 — The King of Seafood Will Be Back Fighting (Fuxinghen Studio)
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Play Stadium 2008
Artist Commune (Cattle Depot Artist Village) Hong Kong
2008
Sea Slug 2.0
Taipei National University of Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
Asia Culture Center
Gwangju , Korea
2019
Yamanaka Suplex
Shiga , Japan
2018
Grey Projects
Singapore
2016
Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture
Ratchaburi , Thailand
2014–2015
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2013
Seoul Art Space Geumcheom
Seoul , Korea
2013
Exhibition
No Promissing Video Art Festival
Fotoaura institute of photography
Tainan , Taiwan
2012
Exhibition
Post Office
Pingpong Art Space
Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Honorable Mention
Taipei Art Awards
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Special Jury Award, Chinese Short Films
 
Beijing International Short Film Festival
Beijing , China
2010
 
Kaohsiung Awards
Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts Curatorial projects
Kaohsiung , Taiwan
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SELECTED ARTWORKS
video , Sound ,
4’04”, 4’01”, 4’16”
video , Sound ,
4’04”, 4’01”, 4’16”
01 / 10
Tu-di Temple
Tu-di Temple is a work film in Taoyuan, Guishan Township, Leshan Village; land expropriation from the major construction of “Airport MRT A7 Station” means the surface structures of the village is gradually disappearing, what is left are bizarre and strange imaginations. After all the village buildings have been removed, only the various Tu-di Temple (land temple) that is scattered around the village remained, becoming the land guardians that only guards the land, and left only with the land. ...
Video Art ,
Three-channel video installation
Three-channel video installation
Three-channel video installation
01 / 10
New Town
Video Art ,
short film
5'18"
short film
5'18"
01 / 10
The Nuclear Power Plant and the Dog
This work is inspired by my walking to the Nuclear Plant No. 1 in Taiwan. In the middle of the way, there came abandoned night markets, waste water drained from the Nuclear Plant, the temple of the 18th King, etc. ... Through the process of shooting, these logically unrelated things gathered geographically get rearranged, and the clips of image stimulate the imagination of strange story happened here. This film ties the nuclear power plant, abandoned night markets, stray dogs and local gods t ...
Video Art ,
video
6'04"
video
6'04"
video
6'04"
01 / 10
Cockroach Trap-The Mystery Hole
Living in old buildings, full of holes, slits and covered with cockroaches, people need to put more cockroaches trap to patch them. "Cockroaches Trap" is about a gecko accidentally runs into a cockroach trap, wanting to get out, like the washing machine in the kitchen... This work is taken in an old home environment, which is loose and unreliable. In this case, the house seems to have a life. The old house was filled with all kinds of annoying little creatures, whose life were t ...
Video Art ,
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