Born in 1956 and grew up in Keelung, Wu Tien-Cheng graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese Culture University in 1980. His works of the 1980s revolve around history and politics. After the 1990s, he started integrating folk culture and life experience with a black sense of playful, pretentious humor, and combined everyday objects with photographic images to construct sensational spectacles. His use of the kitsch visual phenomenon, which is characteristic of Taiwanese, has earned him the reputation of “Tai-Ke artist”. After 2000, Wu has further developed his symbolized, uncanny aesthetics into interactive installations combined with staged photography, demonstrating a montage style that is rather retro and modern at the same time. Wu’s work has been exhibited extensively. In addition to being featured twice in the Venice Biennale (1997; 2015), he has participated in iconic art events several times, including the Taiwan Biennial, the Taipei Biennial, and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.

Born in 1956, Taipei. She holds an Ed.D in Art Education from the Department of Arts and Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the chair of the “Photography Cultural Resource Investigation Project” from 2015 to 2016, and is now the head of “go/de-photography,” a society that promotes the art of photography. Chang plays many roles in life: she is an artist, curator, and teacher, as well as a member in various consultation, collection, and evaluation committees in governmental cultural institutions. She has long dedicated her time to the research, education, and promotion of photography, and has been a driving force in the establishment of the National Center of Photography and Images. Her solo exhibitions include 1895, Revisited at Taipei Photo Gallery (1995), Repetition and Forgetting at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (1998), and Makuda Sun Saetju: Where Don’t You Feel Good? at Dimension Endowment of Art (2000). She is also featured in the 20th anniversary exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, titled Is There Anything in Your Family that Can Be Exhibited in the Art Museum? 2001+2021 (2021).

Born in 1954, and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese Culture University in 1977, and received his MFA from Pratt Institute, New York in 1985. In the early days, Mei was fond of and concentrated on classical art. Later, after he studied printmaking with Liao Shiou-Ping, he began experimenting with different media and techniques, gradually shifting to conceptual art. During his time in the US, he was deeply influenced by Dadaism and Marcel Duchamp, and after graduation, he started reflecting on Taiwan’s situation and the question of identity. In 1992, Mei returned to Taiwan, where his intercultural vision and Taiwan’s socio-political tumults became his creative topics. He specializes in transforming historical objects, through which he provokes the audience’s sensitive nerves with ironic double entendre.

Born in 1960, Taoyuan, and graduated from the Department of Arts and Crafts, Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School. As a Taiwanese contemporary artist working with images, Chen challenged and provoked the authoritarian regime during the period of martial law with Dysfunction No. 3, a performance art piece by using guerilla tactics. After martial law ended in 1987, due to difficulties produced by an inability to understand history and reality, Chen gradually ceased making art until 1996. Chen is known for using narratives conveyed with video installations to interpret fabrication, imagination and re-interpellation in between history and reality. He proposes the “history of the photographed” that is excluded from the “history of photography”, and engages in re-creation based on remnants of images to voice his care for the situations of the socially marginalized and oppressed as well as the history of colonization and its critique. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater in Los Angeles, the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Asia Society in New York, the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, etc. He is the recipient of the National Award for Arts – Visual Arts Category in 2009, the Special Prize of Gwangju Biennale in 2000, and more.

Born in 1963, Penghu, and passed away in 2014, Taipei. Chen’s practice spanned photography, installation and conceptual art, with which he explored the intertextual relationship between private family memories and changes of social subjects in the post-martial law period. After the 1990s, Chen utilized an artistic language combining photography and mixed media to liberate image from its two-dimensionality. Chen was the recipient of the 1995 Taipei Art Awards, and the Visual Art Prize of the 2009 Li Chun-Shan Foundation. Chen had presented solo exhibitions at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, and various art galleries. The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) also presented Chen Shun-Chu: Coral Stone Mountain (2015) after his death. His works have been included in the collections of the TFAM, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, the Deutsche Bank Hong Kang, the Fukuoka Asian Museum, Japan, etc.

A Taiwanese photographer and image artist based in Taipei. Manbo’s creative process involves the intimate relationship between the photographer and the object, as well as observations of objects and scenes of daily life. The figures and spaces captured by Manbo’s lenses are direct metaphors for the cool, distant perspective of bystanders. Manbo’s experimental image work Marrow (2009) was awarded the Taipei Film Festival Non- Fiction Special Award, and Manbo has participated in the art production of films Au Revoir Taipei and Monga. Manbo’s past exhibitions include his first solo exhibition SLEEP LESSON in 2011, Taipei, and he was also invited to exhibit in Singapore; other exhibitions include solo exhibition im/permanence in 2014, Shanghai, and image solo exhibition Document 0-4 in 2016, Transpark, Taipei. Manbos’ Father's Video Tape artwork was awarded the grand prize at the 2019 Taipei Art Awards.

Born in Tainan, now lives in Kaohsiung. His photography career has spanned over three decades. Known for his work of staged photography, his representative works include Rebuilding the Kingdom (1997), Rampant Beasts (1999), Home and Rootless (2006), etc. His works have been featured in major art institutions both in Taiwan and abroad. In recent years, he has conducted extensive field research to explore Taiwan’s coastlines for “The Island Project,” in which one of the series, titled The Submerged Beauty of Formosa, won the First Prize in the 2018 Kaohsiung Award.

Born in 1975, Taipei, where he now lives and works. He graduated from the Department of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. From 1999 to 2009, he worked as a photojournalist, and was awarded Best Photographer of the Golden Tripod Awards in 2007 and 2008. Since 2010, he has started making independent art projects. His work, Momento Mori, was awarded the First Prize of the 10th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award in 2012; afterwards, he has stopped making submissions and applications for any awards, grants, and exhibitions. From time to time, Tou’s work can be seen in art galleries, photo festivals and art museums in Taiwan and abroad.

Born in 1965, Taiwan. Graduated from Shih Hsin School of Journalism (now Shih Hsin University). In 1988, as the development of news media flourished in Taiwan during the post-martial law period, Chou launched his photojournalist career fueled by his passion for photography. At the same time, he also dived into the creation of photography and started various photography projects to profoundly portray specific communities in contemporary society. Expressing his ideas through “creative photography,” he initiated several long- lasting photography projects, including Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony (now commonly called the Out of the Shadows series), Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project, etc. Chou has exhibited his works internationally at many art museums, art centers, and galleries. His recent exhibitions include the Taipei Biennial (2014), the Chang Jiang International Photography and Video Biennale (2015), the Beijing Photo Biennial (2015), Art Souterrain 2017 in Montreal, Canada (2017), the Anren Biennale in Sichuan (2019), and more. In 2022, he was invited by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Spain to present a large-scale solo exhibition, Animal Farm, at the well- known Museo do Oriente in Lisbon, Portugal.

YAO Jui-Chung

Born in 1969. Lives and works in Taipei. He graduated from The National Institute of The Arts (Taipei National University of the Arts). His works has been widely exhibited in numerous international exhibitions. Including Venice Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, APT6 Triennale, Shanghai Biennale, Beijing Photo Biennale, Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Media City Seoul Biennale, Asia Triennial Manchester, Asia Biennale, Sydney Biennale & Taipei Biennale. The themes of his works are varied, but most importantly they all examine the absurdity of the human condition. Yao has assembled all the black-and-white photos of ruins he took in the past 30 years, grouped under the themes of industry, religious idols, architecture, and military bases. They reveal the enormous ideological black hole in Taiwan hidden behind the trends of globalization and Taiwan’s specific historical background as a continuation of the main theme of his work: the absurdity of the historical destiny of humanity. Since 2010, Yao grouped his students into a team of photography workshop called “Lost Society Document (LSD)”. He encouraged them to photograph and survey in their hometowns. Through the way of field surveys, they have attempt to draw the outline of “mosquito houses” which have been widely criticized, published five books named Mirage: Disused Public Property in Taiwan and practice looked into the possibility of observing the society by through the meaning of Art. He has also published several books. His works have been collected by lots of public museum and many other private collectors. Also a Part Time Teacher at the National Taiwan Normal University Department of Fine Arts.

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An independent curator, art critic and documentary filmmaker, whose main research areas include urban studies, philosophical construction of space, gender politics, contemporaneity of indigenous art, curating in the margins, situated knowledge, and multiple epistemologies. Her current program focuses on curating as a method of social practice, spatial practice, and critical thinking. She is the co-curator A Revelation from Ponso no Tao (Orchid Island, Taiwan, 2014), Taitung Ruin Academy (Taitung, Taiwan, 2014), Topography of Mirror Cities (Taipei, Dhaka, Bangkok, Jakarta, Phnom Penh and Kuala Lumpur, 2015-2021), 2018 Kuandu Biennale Seven Questions for Asia (2018-2019), 2019 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival Visiting No.15 Liumagou: Memory, Place and Narrative, 2020 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival If on the Margin, Draw a Coordinate, and Ring Project #1 Metaphors about Islands for 2021 Jakarta Biennale. Her first documentary film as the producer/director A Rainbow over the Ruins (exhibition edition) wins the Special Mention prize in 2012 Urban Nomad Film Festival, and has exhibited in several art exhibitions as a documentary film for Mirage: Disused Public Property in Taiwan by Yao Jui-Chung and LSD. Her articles, art critics, and film critics are published on various journals and magazines. She is one of the grantees of Asian Cultural Council, 2012, and one of the grantees of National Foundation of Culture and Arts in 2005 and 2015.

Chen Chin-Pao holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is now a PhD candidate at the Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. He first made his fame with a documentary portrait series, titled A Moment of Beauty — Betel Nut Girls. His Circumgyration and Memory Crystal series combine writing of documents about his photographed subjects and posed photography to explore the subtle boundary among reality, authenticity and memory. Heaven on Earth features small temples and graves in the vicinity of people’s homes, using “housing” as a metaphor for discussing the subject of life and death, while portraying Taiwan as a place co-inhabited by deities, humans and ghosts. Ordinary Household, an ongoing project which Chen has been working on in recent years, concentrates on documenting the ordinary life in contemporary Taiwanese households. In 2008, Chen was awarded the Overseas Photographer Award of the Higashikawa Awards, Hokkaido, Japan. He was also featured in Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2018. Chen now lives and works in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Born in 1960, Rende, Tainan. Graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts (now National Taiwan University of Arts). He started working as a photojournalist in the media industry, and has worked for magazines and newspapers. For more than thirty years, he has focused on issues related to the lower social class and documented images of the Taiwanese who survived the wars (including Taiwanese comfort women, old veterans who fought in the Chinese Civil War, anti-communism war prisoners in the Korean War, Taiwanese imperial Japan servicemen, etc.) and that of the laborers in Taiwan. He was the curator of the documentary photography section in the Taipei International Photo Festival (2018; 2020). His Taiwanese Comfort Women Series has been exhibited in various international photo festivals around the world, including Poland (2017), Busan, Korea (2017), Daegu, Korea (2014), Lishui, China (2011), Tokyo, Japan (2005), and Pingyao, Shanxi, China (2009), as well as at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2017), the National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall (2016), the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (2013), and the square of Warner Village Cinema, Taipei (2008).

Born in 1980, Tainan. After he graduated from the Department of Printing (now Department of Information and Communication), Chinese Culture University, he worked as a magazine editor in Taipei. In 2012, he left his previous job and moved back to Tainan. In recent years, having been fascinated with the homecoming instinct of racing pigeons, he hopes to construct a pathway of self-dialogue through researching on the culture of pigeon racing to explore issues related to the sense of belonging, destiny, and post-globalization. With the narrative works in his Taiwan Pigeon Trilogy, Lee plans to write a Taiwanese history of pigeon racing, which is also a history of early modern Taiwan. In 2019, the first chapter of the trilogy, titled Battle of Mt. Zhugao and Red Feet Ling, was nominated for the Taishin Arts Award and won the Honorable Mention in the Kaohsiung Award. In 2020, his The Memo of Formosa Air Battle was featured in the Taiwan Biennial; and in his latest project of 2021, Pontanus’ Journal, Lee transforms himself into the protagonist who traverses epically through time to search for his beloved pigeon.

Born in 1985 , Taiwan. Graduated f rom MA Photographic Studies at University of Westminster and MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. Cheng had solo shows in Taiwan, Japan, Spain, UK and more. Her works were seen in Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architechture (China), Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo), Tokyo Biennale, Iniva (London), MMCA (Seoul), National Art Museum of China (Beijing)...etc. In her practice, she examines our cultural, national and racial identities through reinterpreting archival materials to construct narratives in the current context.

Born in 1991, Taipei. Lan Chung-Hsuan holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, and currently lives and works in Taipei. His practice deals with photography, existing images, documents, and historical objects by means of erasure, alteration, and remaking. His recent exhibitions include the public art project “Future Nostalgia FM,” in Weimar, Germany in 2022, and his solo exhibition Residual Heat at Aki Gallery Leipzig Prospect, Leipzig, Germany in 2021. He has exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Gimpo, Beijing, and Taipei. Lan has conducted art residencies in Japan and Finland. Lan is the recipient of the Taiwan Depository and Clearing Corporation (TDCC) Contemporary Arts Award, and has been selected into the Ministry of Culture’s Made in Taiwan-Young Artist Discovery and the Shin Leh Yuan Art Space’s Emerge program. His works are included in the collections of the TDCC, the Art Bank, and the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Cultural & Educational Foundation.