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He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974. In 1997 he graduated from National Institute of the Arts and has exhibited internationally since, including Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Reina Sofia Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Mori Museum, OK Centrum.

Kuang-Yu Tsui has been trying to respond to the adaptation relation between human and the society from a biological point of view. He also attempts to redefine or question the matrix of the institution we inhabit through different actions and experiments that ignore the accustomed norm. In doing so, the artist has developed new means to adapt to the environment and redefine reality. His action can be regarded as a medium, or a parameter, to gauge social tolerance. Also an attempt to show relationships in the present institution and the relation between man and his environment, Kuang-Yu’s repetitive body experiments accent the absurdity of the social values and reality that people have grown accustomed to.

During his creative process from 1995 to 2010, the artist has gradually given his systematic “interceptions” to the living environment a demonstrative significance. His contrasting actions and interactions with the surrounding environment can be taken as a trace of or parameter for social interception. In addition to being absurd, the actions also act as a question to the institution. The artist refers these actions as a shortcut that can further detect and expose other shortcuts to a different system within the present institution. Alternatively, one could say that Kuang-Yu has demonstrated a way to alter the reality or survive within the crevices in the present institution, or to overcome obstacles in the living environment. Within this imaginative system bonded closely to an urban environment, Kuang-Yu Tsui remains his original identity and tries to unearth a crack in this system or to expose an invisible parasitic system.

birth year
1974
Place of Birth
Taipei
Taiwan
education
1997
BFA
Taipei National University of the Arts
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2018
Exercise Living
Double Square Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
"Arctic Diary: The Wrong Ice", Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui
Museum of Contemporary Art , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
"Absence – 1995 and 2005 Documenta", Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui
IT Park Gallery& Photo Studio , Taipei , Taiwan
2007
"The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Invisible City", Solo Exhibition by K.Y Tsui
Eslite Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2006
"The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Crevice", Solo Exhibition by K.Y Tsui
Winchester Gallery , Winchester , U.K.
2006
The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Spirits", Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui
IT Park Gallery& Photo Studio , Taipei , Taiwan
2005
"You So Crazy: Kuang-Yu Tsui’s Video Works", Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui
he Chelsea Art Museum , New York , U.S.A.
2002
"The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Circumstance", Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui
IT Park Gallery& Photo Studio , Taipei , Taiwan
2001
"Chien. Kuang. Huei Taking a Shortcut ", Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui
Prototype Art Gallery , Tainan , Taiwan
2018
"52 Artists 52 Actions", Instagram online program planned
Artspace , Sydney , Australia
2018
"Avant-Garde from Taiwan", LOOP Barcelona 2018
Cinema Girona , Barcelona , Espanyol
2018
"Upside Down City", 2018 Nuit Blanche Taipei
SPOT Cinema , Taipei , Taiwan
2018
"Mon super kilomètre-Constellation des Invalides", Nuit Blanche 2018
Esplanade des Invalides , Paris , France
2018
"PROYECTOR", Festival de Videoarte, Sede Sala Equis 2018
videocreación , Madrid , Espanyol
2018
"CINEMA TAIPEI", A screening project of Taiwanese contemporary art videos and films
as part of the Bangkok Biennial 2018, Bangkok Cho Why , Bangkok , Thailand
2017
Discipline the City
The Substation , Singapore , Singapore
2017
Fibering- Eco As A Verb International Video Installation Exhibition
Yo-Chang Art Museum NTUA , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
A Nonexistent Place
JUT Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
"Eco as a verb (2017 selection)" / " Taiwan Videa2.0: Cultural Encounter" 2017 Night of Museums
Museum of Noncomformist Art / Art Center "Pushkinskaya 10 , Petersburg , Russia
2017
Elsewhere is nowhere
WUK , Vienna , Austria
2017
Very Period
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Declaration / Documentation: Taipei Biennial, 1996-2014
Taipei Fine Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
"Eco as a verb", 35th Asolo Art Film Festival
Eleonora Duse Theaterin Asolo , Veneto Region , Italy
2016
TAIWAN VIDEA 2.0: Cultural Encounter
35th Asolo Art Film Festival The Taiwanese Avant-Garde Video Exhibition , Asolo , Italy
2016
Elsewhere is nowhere
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2016
No Cause for Alarm
La MaMa Gallery (NPO Gallery) , New York , US
2016
Double Vision
Double Square Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Marginal Matters at Arkipel
Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival , Jakarta , Indonesia
2016
M+ Screenings: Visible Places
Broadway Cinematheque , Hong Kong , China
2015
Familiar Otherness: Art Across Northeast Asia
Hong Kong Arts Centre , Hong Kong , China
2015
REWIND_ Taiwan Video Art since 1980s-90s
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
"Taiwan Videa", 34th Asolo Art Film Festival
Eleonora Duse Theater in Asolo , Veneto Region , Italy
2015
Dances with the Times-40 Years of Artist and Contemporary Art in Taiwan
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2015
Future of Imagination 10 – International Performance Art Event Video screen
Flaneur Gallery , Singapore , Singapore
2015
Gestures-Body Art Stories-Marina Abramovic & The Others
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2015
I have a dream
Taipei Fine Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Bloom, ESLITE GALLERY 25th Anniversary
Eslite Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists 1971-1980
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2014
REMODERNIZATION, 2014 Wuhan 3rd Documentary Exhabition of Fine Arts
Hubei Museum of Art , Wuhan , China
2014
We Love Video This Summer
PACE Beijing , Beijing , China
2014
The Other ∙ The Distance Cross-Strait Contemporary Art Exchange
Hubei Museum of Art , Wuhan , China
2014
The Other ∙ The Distance Cross-Strait Contemporary Art Exchange
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2013
West Bund 2013, A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art
Oriental Dream Works , Shanghai , China
2013
Intersecting Vectors, Experimental Projects from the TFAM collection
Taipei Fine Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2013
Everyday Life: 2013 Asia Art Biennial
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2013
Pagyeong: Performances of Video Art
Korea Film Archive, Media Theater i-Gong , Seoul , Korea
2013
Artificial Amsterdam
De Apple Centre of Contemporary Art , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2013
"Crosseroads Another Dimension" – A Cross-Strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange Project 2013
He Xiangning Art Museum , Shenzhen , China
2013
inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013 – MicroCities
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery , New York , U.S.A.
2013
(Con) temp oraryspace- time–Performance and Action Art from Taiwan
Stattberlin , Berlin , Germany
2013
Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004-2013
City Gallery Wellington , Wellington , New Zealand
2013
True Illusion Illusory Truth Contemporary Art
Taipei Fine Art Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
"Artist in Wonderland " Kuandu Biennale 2012
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
"YES TAIWAN" Taiwan Biennale 2012
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2012
Boundaries on the Move Taiwan –Israel a Cross-culture Dialogue
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art , Tel Aviv , Israel
2012
Third Show: The Urban Condition-Works from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Mani House , Tel Aviv , Israel
2012
Sincere Subversion
VT Art Salon , Taipei , Taiwan
2012
Moving Image in China 1988-2011
Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci , Prato , Italy
2011
"VIDEONALE", Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2011
Moving Image in China 1988-2011
Minsheng Gallery of Mordern Art , Shanghai , China
2011
SAMSUNG Media Art Exhibition: Dream_WhiteNight
Daegu City Hall square , Daegu , Korea
2011
"Experimenta: Utopia Now", International Biennial of Media Art
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) , Melbourne , Australia
2011
Republic without People
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2011
Arte da Taiwan: La nuova generazione
Museo d' Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, IT / Roma Spazio Espositivo EX GIL, Roma, IT / Roma Spazio Espositivo EX GIL , Roma , Italy
2011
Window
TINA KENG Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2011
A Lesson of Extremes
Osage Gallery , Kwun-Tong , China
2011
Video Taïwan
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais , Dunkerque , France
2011
Scanning the Daily Lives-Highlights of New Media Arts from the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Collection
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung , Taiwan
2010
Alternatives to Memories
Galerie Art & Essai , Renne , France
2010
21st Century Art in the First Decade
Queensland Art Gallery , Queensland , Australia
2010
Taiwan Calling-Elusive Island
Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art , Budapest , Hungary
2010
Get It Louder 2010: SHARISM
Beijing Sanlitun SOHO, Shanghai 800show , Beijing, Shanghai , China
2010
2010 Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art
Taipei Contemporary Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art , Beijing , China
2010
Invisible Stranger
TamTam 8 Art Space , Berlin , Germany
2010
Traversing the Fantasy
The Cube Project Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2010
A Window to the World
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art , Hiroshima , Japan
2010
Experimenta: Utopia Now - International Biennial of Media Art
Redland Art Gallery, CarriageworksBlackBox, the Arts Centre, Federation Square in Melbourne CBD , Sydney, Queensland, Melbourne , Australia
2010
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PMgalerie , Berlin , Germany
2010
Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Tokyo Branch, / Explore Project
3331 Arts Chiyoda , Tokyo , Japan
2010
Today of Taiwanese Art
Gyeongnam Art Museum , Changwon , Korea
2010
ILLUSIONISMO
CaixaForum Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
2009
Niet Normaal * Difference on Display
Beurs van Berlage , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2009
Becoming Intense – Becoming Animal – Becoming…
Exhibition in the public space of the city of Heidelberg , Heidelberg , Germany
2009
Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia
Spencer Museum of Art , Kansas , U.S.A.
2009
ILLUSIONISMO
CaixaForum Madrid, CaixaForum Lleida, CaixaForum Palma de Mallorca , Madrid, Lleida, Palma de Mallorca , Spain
2009
Territoria # 4
a traveling project of contemporary art , Tuscany , Italy
2009
Rendez-vous 09
I Institut d’art contemporain, Rhone-Alpes , Villeurbanne, Lyon , France
2009
A Perfect Day for Kangaroos
MOMA Contemporary , Fukuoka , Japan
2009
The View from Elsewhere
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Gallery of Modern Art and the Australian Cinematheque , Sydney, Brisbane , Australia
2009
VideoDictionary
Media Library of Fundación La Caixa , Madrid , Spain
2009
City as Gymnasium
Centre for Urban Built Environment (CUBE) , Manchester , United Kingdom
2009
DIS-EASE
a new generation of video art from the Rijksakademie archives, South African National Gallery , Cape Town , South Africa
2009
Living Room 09: My Home Is Where My Heart Is
Performance, film and video in Auckland Central business district , Auckland , New Zealand
2009
Invisible Cities
The LAB, Dublin City Council , Dublin , Ireland
2009
The Epic in the Everyday
PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli , Napoli , Italy
2009
Looking up! Looking down!
Eslite Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2009
Taiwan Pics.doc Art Contemporain Taiwanais
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux arts de Paris , Paris , France
2009
Socially Disorganised
Experimental Arts Foundation, Lion Arts Centre , North Terrace Adelaide , Australia
2009
The Great Illusion
The Culture Gallery in National Concert Hall , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
TAIPEI–BEIRUT–MADRID-BERLIN-ISOLA
ISOLA Art Center, Tantrika Shop, Via Pollaiuolo 2 / Soundmetak, Piazzale Segrino 1 , Milano , Italy
2008
CORPOIMAGEM (Bodyimage)
Palácio das Artes , Belo Horizonte , Brazil
2008
Taipei Biennial 2008
Taipei Fine Art Museum / Taipei Art Park / Taipei Brewery / Zhongxiao Xinsheng MRT Station / PDP in MRT / Taipei Arena screen , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Ctrl Z
inFIDI space , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
Haikus
Kuang-Yu Tsui video art selection from 2002 to 2006, Le FRUC , Montpellier , France
2008
Time Crevasse - Yokohama Triennial 2008
Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Kitakyushu , Yokohama , Japan
2008
Voyage without Boundaries
Sea Art Festival Exhibition in part of Busan Biennial 2008, Gwangalli Beach and three other areas , Busan , Korea
2008
Experimenta Playground
Performance Space at Carriageworks, TThe Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Western Australian Museum , Sydney, Adelaide, Perth , Australia
2008
Pacific Meridian
The 6th Vladivostok International Film Festival of Asian Pacific countries , Vladivostok , Russia
2008
Bad Joke
Riga Art Space , Riga , Latvia
2008
DIS-EASE
a new generation of video art from the Rijksakademie archives, Bank Gallery , Durban , South Africa
2008
Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto , Rovereto , Italy
2008
Streetwise
Reina Sofia Museum , Madrid , Spain
2008
Calypso
Sala Rekalde , Bilbao , Spain
2008
Gravity Art
Telic Arts Exchange , Los Angeles , U.S.A.
2008
Bubble Tea: Art of Taiwan and its Contemporary Mutations
Moravska Galbrie in Brno , Brno , Czech Republic
2008
Biennial Cuvée
OK Centrum , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2007
Taiwan Crossover Festival
OK Centrum , Linz , Austria
2007
Pay Attention Please
26cc , Rome , Italy
2007
Bad Joke
Tallinn Art Hall , Tallinn , Estonia
2007
24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
BALi-Cinema , Kassel , Germany
2007
Screening in Museum of Okinawan Time
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum , Okinawa , Japan
2007
Path of virtue: those who stay on the track
Taiwan New Arts Union , Tainan , Poland
2007
Transpacific. An Encounter in Santiago
La Moneda Palace Cultural Center (LMPCC) , Santiago , Chile
2007
National pride - the second layer
Arti et Amicitiae , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2007
European Media Art Festival
Lagerhalle , Osnabruck , Germany
2007
Impakt Festival 2007
Panorama 10: Star Skattered Skies, Louis Harlooper Complex, Cinema 3 , Utrecht , Netherlands
2007
A World of Make Believe, Screening tour program from Film Bank
Focus Filmtheater, Verkadefabriek, De Fabriek, Filmfuis, Cinema de Balie, ’t Hoogt, Filmfoyer, Plaza Futura, Vera Zienema , Arnhem, Den Bosch, Zaandam, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Groningen , Netherlands
2007
Videowall
Lazy Marie i.s.m. , Stadsschouwburg in Utrecht , Netherlands
2007
Honey, I understand you, but…
DUMBO Transitions, Safe-T Gallery , New York , U.S.A.
2007
IAQ-Infrequently asked questions
ISE cultural foundation , New York , U.S.A.
2007
New Wave of Taiwan Digital Art I
Chelsea Art Museum , New York , U.S.A.
2007
After The News
BankART1929 , Yokohama , Japan
2006
Liverpool International 6_Liverpool Biennial
Tate Liverpool , Liverpool , United Kingdom
2006
Open Ateliers 2006 Rijksakademie
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2006
2006 The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum Jeu de Paume, French Cinematheque , Paris , France
2006
Staring into Space
Temp d'Images Festival, Trafo Space , Budapest , Hungary
2006
Happy Believers
7th Werkleitz Biennale, Volkspark Halle , Saale , Germany
2006
Wondering About (What, Where and Why)
Moving Maastricht #3, Hotel La Bergère on the Wilhelminasingel , Maastricht , Netherlands
2006
V International Show of Video Art / VAIA 2006
Cultural Centre , Alcoi , Spain
2006
I don't know what else to do with myself!
Screening in AK28 , Stockholm , Sweden
2006
Screen Culture in Asia
ART (212) Contemporary Art Fair, Asia Society Museum , New York , U.S.A.
2006
International Short Film Festival France and Asia
(part of La Fete Festival) , At Bangkok Code , Thailand
2006
Made in Asia
Program: Le Monde Bouge / The World Movies, La Nuit Blanche Festival 2006, Le Divan du Monde , Paris , France
2006
Première vue
Passage de Retz , Paris , France
2006
Strobe 06 • Festival de Video Creació
Amposta , Spain
2006
Taipei: Views and Points
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2006
Festival Rayons Frais
Tours , France
2006
War & Nature
Virgil de Voldère Gallery , New York , U.S.A.
2006
The Age of Anxiety
Chi-Wen Gallery , Taipei , Taiwan
2006
Empieza el juego, Video Festival
La Casa Encendida, Centro Cultural Caja Madrid , Barcelona, Zaragoza , Spain
2006
Projected Realities: Video Art from East Asia
ACAW (Asian Contemporary Art Week program), Asia Society & Museum, Jack Tilton Gallery , New York , United Kingdom
2006
Eastern Alliance 3 or TeleDivision Show
MNAC (Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana) , Bucharest , Romania
2006
Eastern Alliance 3 or TeleDivision Show
Centrul de Arta Contemporana KSA:K , Chisinau , Moldova
2006
Exploding Television - Satellite of Love presents: Sex and Sadness Curated by Jan Schuijren, In the framework of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, in collaboration with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Rotterdam , Netherlands
2006
VIM (Very Important Messages), Amsterdam local television Salto A1 and produced by Bellissima Foundation
Amsterdam , Netherlands
2006
Sex and Sadness
Platform Garanti , Istanbul , Turkey
2006
Empty Fields, A dialogue between Contemporary Art and Contemporary Philosophy
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taipei, Taichung , Taiwan
2006
i-Dentity
Fashion and Textile Museum GB, Biennale of Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo , Brazil
2006
i-Dentity
House of Palomino, The Chelsea Art Museum , New York , U.S.A.
2006
Wrong(ed) Attitude
Sparwasser , Berlin , Germany
2006
Wrong(ed) Attitude
CCTP , Paris , France
2006
Short Turns
Argos Gallery , Brussels , Belgium
2006
The Gravity in Art
De Apple Centre of Contemporary Art , Amsterdam , Netherlands
2005
Impakt Festival-Video Dictionary
Casco Gallery , Utrecht , Netherlands
2005
Joy
Casino Luxembourg Luxembourg
2009
Red Stable, The LAB / Dublin City Council
Dublin , Ireland
2008
OK Centrum
Linz , Austria
2006-2007
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Stichting Trustfonds
Amsterdam , Nederlanden
2004
Gasworks Studio
London , U.K.
2008
The Visual Arts Award
Taishin Arts Award
TaishinTaishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture
Taipei , Taiwan
2003
Jury's Special Award
Taishin Arts Award
Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture
Taipei , Taiwan
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Video Performance , Single-channel video ,
07'08"
Video Performance , Single-channel video ,
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01 / 10
Rubbing the City: Beautiful Dirty Bubble
For this video, I first created a bubble machine that runs on the exhaust of buses. The goal was to transform these passenger carrying city buses, tourist buses, or trucks into mobile bubble machines that criss-cross the city, coating the dirty city air with the beauty of imaginative possibilities. Similar to the various objects that fill our daily lives, I am optimistic that through this transformation and whitewash, this imperfection can in fact become a street bubble show reverie. At the s ...
Performance Art , Video Art ,
Video Performance , Single-channel video ,
04分04秒
01 / 10
Invisible City: Sea-level Leaker
This series video were developed during a residency at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 2006 and premiered in the Open Ateliers 06. It is parts of an ongoing action project, conveying varies video documentations of my actions taken place in Taipei, London, Liverpool and Amsterdam from 2002 to 2006. Here I tried to expose an invisible reality that governs our ordinary life. Projecting the time track of the past on the reality of Amsterdam is the fantasy of ‘Invisible City’. So to speak, the work at ...
Performance Art , Video Art ,
Single-channel video
14'03"
01 / 10
Invisible City: Liverpool Top 9
This film was commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and shown in Tata Liverpool in 2006. In the process of exploring Liverpool urban transformation, we can find in the old urban plan a lot of spaces and facilities that are vaguely defined and planned. These weird spaces are like mysteries scattered over the city, waiting to be disclosed or changed at an appropriate time. This project continues the core concept of city spirit – through observation and behavioural interposition, the possibilities ...
Performance Art , Video Art ,
Video Performance , Single-channel video ,
07'50"
01 / 10
The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Spirits
Performance Art , Video Art ,
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 2002, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 2002, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 2001, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 2001, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 2001, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 1997, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 1997, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 1996, Performance Art , Video Art
TSUI Kuang-Yu, 1995, Performance Art , Video Art
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