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PENG Hung-Chih
LAST UPDATE : 2019.10.20 / EDITOR : avatintern
30 artworks / 38 exhibition / 0 essays

My artistic identity is no different than that of ordinary intellectuals in other disciplines, only it involves more artistic technique and aesthetic ability. I express common problems, just like a writer uses his pen to comment on current events, I use art to criticise society.
I wish to forcefully grasp fragile and entirely oppositional poles, allowing them to coexist. This is a type of cyclical relational structure; up and down, high and low, fundamentally don’t have opposites, but have been mutually matched. In this process, the center is removed, as well as the self.
I want to take all my work, no matter if it’s video, sculpture, installation, or painting, and create an image lattice, which allows viewers to enter the mind and achieves the goal of dissemination. Art should be a tool of propaganda, a tool to awaken the collective conscience. This is the only choice under very pressing conditions.

birth year
1969
Place of Birth
Taipei
Taiwan
Place of Residence
Taipei
Taiwan
Beijing
China
education
1997
MFA
San Francisco Art Institute
1992
BFA
National Taiwan Normal University
experience
Present Position
Visual Artist
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2018
Warm up the Landscape
DOUBLE SQUARE GALLERY , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Post-Inner Scripture
Art Issue Project , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Propaganda
Art Issue Project , Beijing , China
2009
God Pound
Musee Guimet , Paris , France
2009
200 years
IT Park Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Hung-Chiih Peng
Gallery Paule Anglim , San Francisco , USA
2007
Hung-Chiih Peng
MIT List Visul Art Center , Massachusetts , USA
2006
Beware of GOD
IT Park Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2002
Little Danny
O.K Center for Contemporary Art , Austria
2001
Gou-Dong-Xi
IT Park Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
1998
Expansion Underground
Southern Exposure , San Francisco , USA
2012
Project Daejeon 2012: Energy
Daejeon Museum of Art Korea
2012
Boundaries on the Move: A Cross-Cultural Dialoque
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Israel
2011
Everything Changes
DNA Gallery , Berlin , Germany
2010
Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York
Museum of Chinese in America , New York , USA
2009
Manimal
National Center of Contemporary Art , Moscow , Russia
2009
Art in Busan 2009: Inter-City
Busan Museum of Art , Busan , Korea
2009
The Epic in the Everyday
PAN Palazzo della Arti Napoli , Naples , Italy
2009
Taiwanpics.doc
ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts , Paris , France
2009
Spectacle- to Each His Own
Museum of Contemporary Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Home-Taiwan Biennial 2008
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2008
Reflective Asia - The 3rd Nanjing Tiennial
Nanjing Museum , Nanjing , China
2008
In Between - Asian Video Art Weekend
Mori Art Museum , Tokyo , Japan
2007
10th International Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul , Turkey
2007
Taiwan: From within the Mist
Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center, Ransbury Gallery, the Illges Gallery , Washington, South Dakota, Indiana, Georgia , USA
2007
Taiwan: From within the Mist
Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art , Vancouver , Canada
2007
Taiwan: From within the Mist
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2007
Remote/ Control
Museum of Contemporary Art , Shanghai , China
2006
Happy Believer, 7. Werkleitz Biennale
Germany
2006
Taipei/ Taipei: Views and Points
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2006
Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai
Silpalorn University , Bangkok , Thailand
2005
Two Asias, Two Europes
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art , Shanghai , China
2005
Archaeology of The Future-The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art
Nanjing Museum , Nanjing , China
2004
The Era of Contention: Contemporary Taiwanese Visual Culture
Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , New York , USA
2004
City Odysseys: Loosing and Lost
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2003
Time After Time
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco , USA
2003
The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum , Fukuoka , Japan
2001
Labyrinth of Pleasure-Childhood Revisited
Museum of Contemporary Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2005
New York Studio Program
2003
The International Studio And Curatorial Program
New York , USA
2002
O.K Center for Contemporary Art
Upper Austria , Austria
2001
Hong Kong Arts Center
Hong Kong , China
2007
 
The 5th Taishin Art Award
Taishin Bank Foundation of Arts and Culture
Taiwan
1998
 
SOCA Award
Society of Contemporary Art
Taipei , Taiwan
KEYWORDS
SELECTED ARTWORKS
Video Installation , Single-channel video , HD ,
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Dogs of Guru Granth Sahib
2005-2008
Sikhism is born and practiced in the state of Punjab in Northern India. It is the fifth largest religion in the world. Sikhism emerged from the foundations of Vaishnavism and Sufism. It was founded by Guru Nanak Dev in 1469. Its most important scripture the “Guru Gobind Singh” includes selected works of many philosophers from diverse socio-economic and religious backgrounds. The text was decreed by Gobind Singh, the final guru of the Khalsa Panth. When I began to work on the Sikhism texts, my ...
Installation Art , Video Art , Painting ,
HD , Single-channel video , Video Installation ,
01 / 10
Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius
2005-2008
Is “Confucianism” a religion? It is debatable. It has its own ritual systems and temples. However Confucianism does not concern with supernatural thing or gods and demons. It is secular. It sets up human relations and morals. One may says that China is built on human relations, and the Western nations are built on religion beliefs. Confucianism is the religion for the Chinese intellectuals. Since the ancient times, it has controlled the tradition of Chinese politics and culture. Furthermore, ...
Installation Art , Video Art , Painting ,
Video Installation , HD , Single-channel video ,
01 / 10
Unity of All Religions
2005-2008
The text written by the dog in this piece is taken from the Baha'i religion. According to the faith, religious history has unfolded through a series of messengers from God who have brought teachings suited for the people of their time. The teaching of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the religion in 19th century Persia, is regarded as the most recent, but not final, in a line of messengers that includes Abraham, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and others. Central to the Baha'i faith is the pursuit of unit ...
Installation Art , Video Art , Painting ,
HD , Single-channel video ,
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Excerpts from the Bhagavad Gita
2005-2008
“Bhagavad Gita” is a Sanskrit text from the “Bhishma Parva” of the “Mahabharata”epic. The contents of the excerpts range from Yogic and Vendantic philosophy to the episode of Krishna revealing his identity as “supreme being” (Bhagavan) and then blessing Arjuna with an awe-inspiring glimpse of his divine and absolute form. The Gita is considered a concise guide to Hindu philosophy and also a practical, self-contained guide to life. The two final sentences read: “When a sensible man ceases to s ...
Installation Art , Video Art , Painting ,
PENG Hung-Chih, 2005-2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2005-2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2005-2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2005-2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2005-2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2005-2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2010, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2005-2008, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
PENG Hung-Chih, 2007, Installation Art , Video Art , Painting
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