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Photographic Art

Chih-Shan MIAO, a former book editor, a freelance photographer, a part-time language teacher, and an interdisciplinary artist, is based in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her BA in English at National Central University in Taiwan, and MA in Communications Studies at Leeds University in UK. Before she started her photography career, MIAO was a senior editor in charge of books editing and publishing.

Her personal works show her interests widely in sociological approaches to contemporary portraits "The Bedroom Project", the power struggles between her as the part-time teacher and her students "The Classroom Project", the context re-created by both images and texts "The Reading Project", the reconsideration of authorship, originality, and individuality "The Writing Project", the dynamic adaptation in languages "The Speaking Project", and the anxiety of efficient communication in languages "The Listening Project".

MIAO was awarded Silver Prize of Photography in 2012 National Art Exhibition and Honorable Mention of Photography in 2014 National Art Exhibition. She was also awarded Honorable Mention of 2014 Kaohsiung Awards of Fine Arts. Her first solo exhibition The Bedroom Project was held in 2012, Taipei, and she was included in several group exhibitions in Taiwan.

birth year

1973

Place of Birth

Tainan

Taiwan

education

2001

MA Communications Studies

University of Leeds

1997

BA Department of English

National Central Univesity

experience

2010

Resigned

MOCA Art Classroom Teaching Assistant of 180° Creative Photo Imaging Workshop

2010

Resigned

Por Que Base Teaching Assistant of Black and White Darkroom

2007-2004

Resigned

China Times Publishing Editor

2003-2002

Resigned

Tittot Glass Art Museum Executive Officer

personal website

https://www.chihshanmiao.com/bio/

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SOLO EXHIBITION
GROUP EXHIBITION
Artist-in-Residence
Curating & Planning
Publication
AWARD

2017

The Reading Project

Shudian Bookstore Gallery , New Taipei , Taiwan

2012

The Bedroom Project

Floor 8 Contemporary Art Space , Taipei , Taiwan

2018

Photobook As Method: Book Exhibition

Lightbox Photo Library , Taipei , Taiwan

2018

Taiwan Annual

Taipei Expo Park Expo Dome , Taipei , Taiwan

2017

Taiwan Annual

Taipei Expo Park Expo Dome , Taipei , Taiwan

2016

Taiwan Annual

Taipei Expo Park Expo Dome , Taipei , Taiwan

2015

Artist Fair Taiwan

Taipei Expo Park Expo Dome , Taipei , Taiwan

2014

Kaohsiung Awards

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan

2014

National Art Exhibition

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan

2012

National Art Exhibition

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan

2012

Female Consciousness

Floor 8 Contemporary Art Space , Taipei , Taiwan

2012

First Shot

Taiwan International Visual Arts Center (TIVAC) , Taipei , Taiwan

2015

Book

The Writing Project

inknet

2015

Young Art Taipei

Portfolio Review

Taiwan

2014

Honorable Mentions

Kaohsiung Awards

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

Kaohsiung , Taiwan

2014

Honorable Mentions of Photography

The 2014 National Art Exhibition

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Taichung , Taiwan

2012

Silver Prize of Photography

The 2012 National Art Exhibition

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Taichung , Taiwan

2010

13 Honorable Mentions, Non-Professional Category

International Photography Awards (IPA)

USA

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The Reading Project

2013

The Reading Project is an exploration of reading as an activity, examining how the image-text-object relationship is interlocked by signifying and being signified. This project assumes the meaning we get from reading is not something in essence, fixed or already exists that delivers to the readers/viewers. But rather, the meanings are produced and practiced by them in the process of decoding. What we read and decode should not be taken as a given, and in fact we organize and produce its signi ...

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The Classroom Project

2009-2015

Almost accidentally, as a part-time language teacher, I started to take photos of naughty or bad behaved students during the classes. However, I suddenly realized what I did was aggressive in many ways when I held my camera and pointed at them. Nevertheless, capturing the naughty or bad behaviors by my camera did not show the so-called “truth.” The photographer, me in this case, who believed the photos could tell facts and show evidences, had nothing but my own absurdity. No deceive moments. ...

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The Bedroom Project

2010-

Being single is in fact the result of a complex set of personal choices and circumstances. The Bedroom Project focuses on the personal space of these PLURAL singles and their diverse ways of life. As a tool to expose, my camera not only resembles a social anthropologist’s viewpoint and approach to the privacy of these individuals, but also explores the relation between the space utilization and his/her lifestyle, and the gap of personal image between the private and the public.

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Life / Work in Progress

2011-

This series is developed independently from The Bedroom Project which focuses on personal space of single people. One of my sitter, Tom Hsu, got married a year after I took his portrait in his room. Changes in life always take place. A single then, a family now. I started this long-term project to photograph them, and pay my visit yearly. It is a work in progress of course, and life is a work in progress as well.

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