Wen Hsiang Mark Chen was born in 1957, Taipei, and graduated from the fine arts department of Chinese Culture University in 1980, Taiwan. He obtained the MFA degree of CUNY in 1990, USA. After returning to Taiwan in 1992, he and couples of artists found Shin Le Yuan Art Space, a non-profit co-op artist group and continued to participate in group exhibitions and released solo shows every two or three years. Among the early stage in 1983, to echo the political and social movement, he created a method of “scrabble Chinese painting” as a symbol of resistance to traditional preach of Chinese propriety, developing a kind of none expected, non-reason “black and white painting” (sounds like “scrabble” in Taiwanese) series. When study art in New York In 1987, he started to try mixed medias and later joined the “ready-mades” to fabric his art works. By using proliferation, consumption wastes, the contents of his art shift to Involve the allegory of social and political phenomena. Returning Taiwan in 1992, he first tried installation in space. Until today he keep searching and imagination the situation of the individual under the manipulation of specific Party-state capitalism in Taiwan. He often applied the Taiwan unique red stripe plastic bags as converted symbols of vulgar and sacred, reality and extraordinary, deconstruction and identity.