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LAST UPDATE : 2022.09.8 / EDITOR : tcaa
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Kuang-Yi Ku lives and works both in Taiwan and the Netherlands. He is doing his Ph.D. research at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and the research topic is the interdisciplinary practice between art, design, and bioscience. He has graduated with triple master degrees with social design from Design Academy Eindhoven, dentistry from National Yang-Ming University, and communication design from Shih Chien University. He is a former dentist, bio-artist, and speculative designer. He also co-founded TW BioArt (Taiwan bioart community) to stimulate the fields of BioArt and Science+Art in Taiwan. His works often deal with human body, sexuality, interspecies interaction, and medical technology, aiming to investigate the relationships among technology, individual and environment.

Kuang-Yi Ku’s “Tiger Penis Project” has been awarded Gijs Bakker Award 2018, the annual prize for the best project by a graduating master’s student in Design Academy Eindhoven. He has also won the 1st prize of Taipei Digital Art Awards in 2015 with “The Fellatio Modification Project”, where he involves body modification, gender studies, queer theories, and dentistry all together. His works were featured in international medias such as New Scientist, The Huffington Post, Elephant Magazine, DAMN° Magazine, Dezeen, Designboom, VICE, Dazed Digital, Daily Mail, New York Post, and so on.

birth year
1985
Place of Birth
Taipei
Taiwan
Place of Residence
Eindhoven
Netherlands
education
PhD Lab4Living
Culture and Creativity Research Institute
2018
MA Department of Social Design
Design Academy Eindhoven
2015
MDes Department of Communications Design
Shih Chien University
2015
MS Department of Dentistry
National Yang-Ming University
2009
BS School of Dentistry
Kaohsiung Medical University
experience
2021
Resigned
Institute of Applied Art National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Adjunct Assistant Professor
2021
Present Position
TW BioArt (Taiwan BioArt Community) Co-founder
2014-2020
Resigned
Ouroboros - Organic Organism of O Co-founder
2020
Present Position
Coevolution Research Assembly (an NPO of artist and scientist collaboration) Founder
2020
Resigned
Department of Industrial Design, Shih Chien University Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor
2019-2021
Resigned
Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts Lecturer, Bio Art course
2016
Resigned
Commission on Youth, Taipei City Government Committee
2015-2016
Resigned
Commission on Youth, Taipei City Government Committee (Cultural Policy Consultant)
2015
Resigned
Private Dental Clinic Dentist
2011
Resigned
Taipei Veterans General Hospital Dentist
personal website
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2021
Kuang-Yi Ku: Form Follows Fiction
Willem Twee Kunstruimte , Den Bosch , Netherlands
2021
Grandmom Mom
Honggah Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Provocative Futures: Speculation, human body, and medical science - Paul Gong & Kuang- Yi Ku Double Solo Exhibition
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2018
Tiger Penis Project Exhibition
Baltan Laboratories , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2012
The Ambiguous Pink Project – Organic Mimicry of Prosthesis / Fred Ku Solo Exhibition
Mon Espace D'Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2022
Unknown Unknowns
Triennale Milano , Milan , Italy
2022
Colliding Epistemes: Art & Science Exhibition
Cluj Culture Center , Cluj , Romania
2022
Colliding Epistemes: Science for Art's sake?
Bozar , Brussels , Belgium
2022
The 5th Anniversary of Jut Art Museum - LIVES: Life, Survival, Living
Jut Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2022
Colliding Epistemes: Art, Science, Anthropocene
Laznia Center for Contemporary Art , Gdansk , Poland
2021
2021 Taipei Art Awards
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2021
Provocative Futures II: Speculation, Medical Science, Human Body and Gender
Taipei Digital Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2021
Phantasmapolis - 2021 Asian Art Biennial
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2021
Embassy of Food
Dutch Design Week , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2021
Embassy of Inclusive Society
Dutch Design Week , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2021
It’s in our Nature
Dutch Design Week , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2021
Folk is Strange Thing
Ziemniaki , Warsaw , Poland
2021
Interspecies Future
Center for Book Arts , New York , U.S.A.
2021
Dwell in Light-2021 Treasure Hill Light Festival
Treasure Hill Artist Village , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
CHRONIQUES - Biennale of Digital Imagination
Marseille , Marseille , France
2020
Taiwan HYPE Exhibition
Breeze Center XIN YI , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Sci-fi Prototype
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Embassy of Health-World Design Embassies
virtual exhibition
2020
Genetic (R)evolution: BioArt Exhibition
National Yangming University Arts Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Taiwan Biennial
VT Art Salon , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
new now - critical, speculative and fictional
Sunsun Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Unpacking the 3Pckage Deal 2019/2020
VondelCS , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2020
Artificial Unit
TheCube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2020
Uncertainty Seminars
Stroom Den Haag , Den Haag , Netherlands
2019
State of Extremes
Design Museum Holon , Holon , Israel
2019
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival E.A.T.
Hong Kong City Hall , Hong Kong , China
2019
RTS: ReTranSens - 14th Digital Art Festival Taipei
Museum of Contemporary Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
Inscience International Film Festival
Mariënburgkapel , Nijmegen , Netherlands
2019
Przemiany Festival
Copernicus Science Centre , Warsaw , Poland
2019
Embassy of Health
klokgebouw , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2019
City Flip-Flop
C-Lab , Taipei , Taiwan
2019
Ars Electronica, Human Limitations – Limited Humanity
POSTCITY Linz , Linz , Austria
2019
Gogbot Festival, Bio The New Digital
Grote Kerk , Enschede , Netherlands
2019
Friday Late : Pick of the Litter
Victoria and Albert Museum , London , UK
2019
Farming the Future - Zoom in and Out
TAC , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2019
Beyond Species - The art exhibition
FIT , New York , U.S.A.
2019
Creatures Made to Measure
Design Museum Gent , Gent , Belgium
2019
Milan re-used
Yksi Expo , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2019
Future (H)eart(H), Milan Design Week
BASE Milano , Milan , Italy
2019
TEC ART festival
Worm Slash Gallery , Rotterdam , Netherlands
2018
L.A.B : 2018 NCKU Bi²ennale – Technology and Art
NCKU Art Center , Tainan , Taiwan
2018
ReShape - Mutating Systems, Bodies and Perspectives
MU artspace , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2018
Embassy of Food - Edible Invisible
De Witte Dame , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2018
G18 - Graduation Show of Design Academy Eindhoven
De Campina , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2018
Embassy of Health - Chronic Health
Innovation Powerhouse , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2017
Designing Desire
FACT , Liverpool , UK
2017
Materialising the Internet
MU , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2017
Atypical Human
YIRI Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Future Lab
Play Design Hotel , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Satyricon
Yiri Arts at Kaohsiung’s Pier-2 Space , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2017
Alien Matter - Transmediale 2017
Haus der Kulturen der Welt , Berlin , Germany
2016
Mouthy : Into The Orifice
Science Gallery London , London , UK
2016
Animal and Us
Digital Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Dutch Design Week
Microlab , Eindhoven , Netherlands
2016
Designer's Gaze
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Coexist Exhibition - Try me
Nanhai Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Bio Apartment Vol.3-Succession
Radicalsign , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Digital Art Festival Taipei - Digitopia
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Imaginary Body Boundary
Digital Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
Bio Apartment Vol. 2 - Colonization (Bio)
h*ours cafe , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
#HLab14:JOG
Langgeng Art Foundation , Jogjakarta , Indonesia
2014
Taxidermist’s Magical Play
YIRI Arts , Tainan , Taiwan
2014
Missing Words
182artspace , Tainan , Taiwan
2013
ART KAOHSIUNG 2013
Chateau de Chine Hotel Kaohsiung , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2013
YOUNG ART TAIPEI (YAT) Contemporary Hotel Art Fair
Sheraton Grande Taipei Hotel , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
The Incubator - Biology + Science + Art Interdisciplinary Exhibition
Freedom Men Art Apartments , Taichung , Taiwan
2013
The League of Creators
Taichung City Cultural Center Wen Ying Hall , Taichung , Taiwan
2013
Worlds Apart Fair
Conrad Hotel , Singapore , Singapore
2012
The Ambiguous Pink Project – Organic Mimicry of Prosthesis / Fred Ku Solo Exhibition
Mon Espace D'Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
You Just Can’t Get What You Want
A-7958 Gallery , Taichung , Taiwan
2012
Both
Shih Chien University , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Exhibition of the Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan 3D Creation Series
Taichung City Seaport Art Center , Taichung , Taiwan
2012
There Is No Reason
Shih Chien University , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Asia Contemporary Art Show - Hong Kong
Grand Hyatt Hong Kong , Hong Kong , China
2012
Party Is Over
Shih Chien University , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Geisai Taiwan 3 Winners Exhibition
Hidari Zingaro Taipei , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Cos-Cosmos
Shih Chien University , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
Geisai Taiwan 3
Huashan1914 Creative Park , Taipei , Taiwan
2020-2022
STUDIOTOPIA – Art meets Science in the Anthropocene hosted by GLUON
Brussels , Belgium
2019-2020
Waag Society, Next Nature Network
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2018
AirWG
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2018
Waag Society
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2016
Eindhoven
Eindhoven , Netherlands
2016
Foundation for Art and Creative Technology
Liverpool , UK
2022
First Prize
Bio Art & Design Award
ZonMW, MU Artspace, BoiArt Laboratories
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2021
Selected
2021 Taipei Art Awards
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei , Taiwan
2019
Awarded
3 Package Deal (Social Design)
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2019
Awarded
Stimuleringsfonds, Talent Development
Stimuleringsfonds
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2019
Awarded
Core77 Design Award, Speculative Design Award
Core77
New York , U.S.A.
2019
Awarded
Design grants
Stimuleringsfonds
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2018
Awarded
Starting grants
Stimuleringsfonds
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2018
First Prize
Gijs Bakker Award 2018
Design Academy Eindhoven
Eindhoven , Netherlands
2018
Awarded
Future Food Design Award
The Dutch Institute of Food & Design
Nominee , Netherlands
2016
Awarded
Creation Grants
Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
Taipei , Taiwan
2015
First Prize
Taipei Digital Art Awards
Digital Art Foundation
Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Selected
Exhibition of the Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan 3D Creation Series
TaiChung City Seaport Art Center
TaiChung , Taiwan
2011
Awarded
Geisai Taiwan 3, Most popular award
BIGART PRESS
Taipei , Taiwan
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New Ultimate Imperial Feast
As the choices we make around food consumption is increasing seen as an environmental and social responsibility, the ethics of its production are now coming in conflict with many of the cultural traditions that surround the meals we eat. Instead of abandoning these traditions in favour of alternative lifestyle trends, the ‘New Ultimate Imperial Feast’ uses the history of China’s most extravagant banquets to bring cultural heritage and radical food production techniques together. ​Based ...
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Millennium Ginseng Project
The consumption of ginseng in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is believed to connote the supplement Jing Qi (Chinese: 精氣; essence and qi/vitality) as ginseng grows in a harsh, natural environment and takes the shape of a man's body. The conceptualization of "qi" is considered to be consumed more than consumption of the material itself. Long-lived wild ginseng, in particular, is deemed as anti-ageing. Due to the belief system of TCM, people think that wild ginseng is more powerful than its ...
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Delayed Youth
Delayed Youth is set in the year 2050, Taiwan. In this futuristic world, conservative groups have successfully taken hold of political resources through referendums and by taking an aggressive stand in political participation, and are instigating the Ministry of Health and Welfare to change policies on gender and sexuality. By collaborating with the Endocrinology Department and pediatricians, these groups use medication for sexual precocity to control sexual maturity among adolescents. The go ...
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Tiger Penis Project
Many cultures have their own systems of alternative medicine, whose effectiveness cannot always be proven according to contemporary scientific analysis. They are usually regarded as mere cultural myths, such as the use of the tiger penis to increase virility in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). At the same time, the huge demand for wild animals in TCM poses a threat to endangered species. Nevertheless, TCM may offer other benefits beyond mainstream western medicine. Is there a way to resolv ...
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