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Kuo Yu-Ping
LAST UPDATE : 2019.02.11 / EDITOR : newmedia
6 artworks / 33 exhibition
New Media Art

Kuo Yu-Ping was born in Taiwan and she received her MFA in trans-disciplinary arts from Taipei National University of Arts.

Her currently practice deals with the relationship between personal experiences and history. Using video, installation and painting, she illustrates the ways in which modernity is considered a concept of progress, but in its rise to dominance creates various remnants and legacies as it rewrites traumas. Her works penetrate tribe and nation, exploring realism in the collective consciousness, and the relationship between society, politics and the economy. On another level, she transforms art into a poetic narrative body that is a form of life in it of itself.

Her recent major works — Delay and Pit, Eastern Messiah, and Autonomy — concentrate on the depiction of trauma in the process of life. Drawing from personal experience and her family history, she investigates Eastern Asian’s acute sense of “lack” in their collective consciousness that has developed due to contemporary historical circumstances.

The strain of her inner life has been thoroughly expressed through her eerie and mystical paintings.

Kuo currently lives and works in Taipei.

birth year
1986
Place of Birth
Nantou
Taiwan
Place of Residence
Taipei
Taiwan
education
2016
MFA Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts
Taipei National University of the Arts
2008
BFA Department of Sculpture
National Taiwan University of Arts
personal website
http://www.kuoyuping.com/
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2017
My Little Black Book
Michael Ku Gellary , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Sun Yat-San Freeway
Michael Ku Gellary , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Delay and Pit
Haohaus Contemporary Art , Hsinchu , Taiwan
2013
Cement Love
Nan-hai Art Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
2018 Taiwan Biennial: Wild Rhizome
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2018
Black Ships, Civilization, Remarks, and ______s’ Footprints: From Japanese Modern to East Asian Contemporary Art
Galerie Niched Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
Family Memo — Island of Memory and Migration Southeast Asia New Immigrant themed Contemporary Art Exhibition
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
We can’t come from nothing –eight strategies for undoing borders and rethinking identities
Haohaus Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
Even though the future may be far away, Even though saying good bye needs not be at an airport, If only you could describe a future
Michael Ku Gellary , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Tobacco, Carpet, Lunch Box, Textile Machinery and Cave Men: the narratives of craftsmanship and technologies in contemporary art
Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Tropical Cyclone
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Family Reunion
Pi Artworks , London , UK
2017
Shattered Sanctity
Museum of Contemporary Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
RIVERRUN
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
The Third International Biennial of Muralism and Public Art
Cali , Colombia
2016
Taipei Biennial: Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Who’s Who
Waley Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Who’s Who
Audio Visual Pavilion , Seoul , South Korea
2015
Taipei Arts Award
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Taipei South Town Art Festival 2014 —The Contemporary Art of Chinese Characters
National Museum of History , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
The Red Bloc
Treasure Hill Artist Village , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Taipei Arts Award
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei
2012
Open Studio
Taiwan Photo Museum Preparatory Office , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Pineapple Queendom Party
Taipei National University of the Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Measuring temperature of City
Taipei National University of the Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Green Label (, or its Negative)
Nan-hai Art Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Punto Diablos
Open Contemporary Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Mobile Man
Wolong 29 , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Perception-Standing on The Earth
Forty-Four South Village , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
From There to Here
Xian Guang Second Village , Taoyuan , Taiwan
2007
A Piece of Cake
National Taiwan University of Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2007
Biolistic Technology
435 Art Zone , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
Finalist
Taipei Arts Award
 
Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Finalist
Taipei Arts Award
 
Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Honorable Mention
Taipei Arts Award
 
Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Video Arts
 
S-An Cultural Foundation Art Award
Taiwan
2009
Video Arts
 
S-An Cultural Foundation Art Award
Taiwan
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Goose
In the work "Goose", the artist simulated a pseudo-history of the species “goose.” She constructed a monument on which stands a statue of goose. Then she attached two light-salmon-colored and wax-made columns to the body of the goose statue. Organs of female sexuality carved in relief covers the two wax columns. Accompanying this statue, the artist selected various images derived from entering the term “goose” to the Internet search engine. The contents of these images include daily streetsca ...
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sound installation,pamphlet,
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Gift
In the work "Gift", the artist treated the families of public servants as the object of survey, while her parents are also public servants. These families can be regarded as the bourgeoisie in terms of economy. However, they lack the capability for comprehending symbols. The artist collected various objects such as ornaments and souvenirs from these families, and interviewed the owners of these objects about their attachments and memories. Together with the detailed sketches of these objects, ...
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Three-frequency Projection
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Three-frequency Projection
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Punto Diablos
The work "Punto Diablos" documented a headland at the north coast of Taiwan (now known as Yehliu) with images. There were a number of settlements supported by small-scale capture fisheries, which began to decline after Taiwan was incorporated into the labor-division system of global production. Thanks to its unique geomorphological features, Yehliu has become a tourist attraction since the 1960s. In the 1970s, the government built a nuclear power plant there. Nowadays, Yehliu is transfo ...
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site-specific,Photography,Printing Materials,
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site-specific,Photography,Printing Materials,
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site-specific,Photography,Printing Materials,
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Landscape
In the work "Landscape" created in 2010, the artist tried to find the previous resident of a now-abandoned house in a military dependents’ village, and record his life story and his journey back to China to visit relatives on behalf of his father. During the interview, the interviewee invited the artist to the memorial hall of soldiers to offer sacrifices to his father. The artist then narrated the man’ s life story with the photo documents and the contents of interview, along with audio inst ...
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Delay and Pit
Kuo Yu-Ping, 2013, New Media Art
Eastern Messiah
Kuo Yu-Ping, 2015, New Media Art
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