A graduate of the Western-style Creation stream, Graduate Institute of Visual Art, National Taiwan Normal University. His early work focused on oil painting and woodblock printing. In 1996 he studied contemporary art at a studio in Paris. In 1998, he took up a position in the Department of Art Industries at Taitung University until retirement in 2011 as an Associate Professor.

From his undergraduate days, Lo Pin-Ho has paid attention to issues such as Taiwanese Indigenous anti-nuclear and environmental movements. His series featuring Taiwanese Indigenous subjects have been noticed by the art world.

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Born in Hualien, Taiwan in 1974, Chung graduated from Fotosoft Institute of Photography, and received his master’s degree from London University of Goldsmiths College in Image & Communication. Some of his experiences include training in photograph long-term preservation techniques at Liang-Yuan Art Workshop, photo journalist for Apple Daily (2003-2005), volunteer photographer for John Tung Foundation, and lecturer at the National Taiwan University of Arts Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts and Department of Visual Communication Design (2006-2009). Chung's artwork Seeing Is Believing received the 2002 Taipei Arts Award Selected, and From the Dark received the Kaohsiung Arts Award Selected. Chung is currently a free-lance photographer and a visual artist. His artworks concentrate primarily on the societal changes brought on by developments in civilization, as well as exploring the transformation of objects in image space by reconstructing subtle phenomena in daily life. In 2009, he settled down in his hometown, after which his work begin to incorporate his concerns for agriculture and environment. Aside from photography, he has taken on farming as a career and is currently managing his own brand "Goodeatss".

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Born in 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan, graduating in 2018 from the doctoral program in Theory of Art Creation, Tainan National University of the Arts. In 2007, she graduated from Tainan University of the Arts' Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts. She has previously held residencies in Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, and her works have been displayed in Taiwan, Japan, Germany, France, and in New York. Her works have been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, and BankArt 1929 in Yokohama, Japan.

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Passionate about fashion, documentary, directing, conceptual photography, and skilled at video collage storytelling. His creation issues pertain to people, the city, and the environment of their upbringing. Currently works in media, photography education, and continued photography art creation.

Author of books such as Goodbye, Fox — Teng Po-Jen Video Novel, A Twist of Time and Le Temps Perdu. The work Le Temps Perdu series received the highest honor “Archival Work” (Grand Prize) at the Xu Xiaobing Cup Photography Exhibition. His various series have been archived by the Art Bank Taiwan as well as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. He has also been introduced in China Photography Magazine (June, 2016) as one of 10 Taiwanese contemporary photographers. In recent years, he is focusing on photography book editing. He has served as chief editor for My Own Landscape (Kuo Ying-sheng, 2021), Distilled. Reflection—Narrative Video of Kang Tai-sheng (Kang Tai-sheng, 2022), Interview Transcripts 3, 4, 5 (2020-2022).

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Tsai Chang-Chi was born in Beigang Township, Yunlin County, receiving his master's in Art Creation from the Department of Fine Arts, University of Salamanca, Spain, and having taught at Lingtung University of Technology for over 30 years. He has received numerous national photography accolades, including the first prize at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi International Photography Competition, EPSON Color Imaging Contest runner-up and Jury Prize, Nanying Biennial Award Photography Category, National Art Awards Photography Category, Kaohsiung Prize Photography Category, TIVAC Photography Prize, and other awards.

Early on, he worked in art printing and visual graphic design, and left his stable career to embark on study of Western contemporary art in Spain after being inspired by Van Gogh, thus transforming his cumulative art experience into photography creation. His solo exhibitions include The Solitude of the Periphery; Photography. Talking Images; Situation, Representation. Phenomenon; Existence / Margin; City. Vision. Scape. Realization; Route. Subject; Deepest Pleasures of Life—2010 Tsai Chang-Chi Digital Image Art Exploration Exhibition.

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Chen Chun-Lu was born in Tainan on February 20, 1956. In 1977, he graduated from the Department of Public Relations at Shih Hsin School of Journalism (now known as Shih Hsin University), and in 1985 from the Commercial Photography Department in Tokyo College of Photography, Japan. He has previously worked in the technical department at Horiuchi Professional Image Studio, participated in the founding of Taipei Photography Art Gallery, and served as a jury member for the Council for Cultural Affairs (now known as Ministry of Culture), the Golden Tripod Awards, and various cultural centers. He currently is the president of Zone 5 Professional Printing. He has previously held many solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, as well as displaying his work in places such as Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Milan.

—Reference: Chen Chun-Lu, The Creation (Taipei: Chen Chun-Lu, 2000)

Chen Yan-Cheng, Taiwanese, enjoys exploring the nature of time, continually allowing photography to impact himself, and relishing in the sparks that are generated. Since becoming a full-time caregiver in 2016, he moves between raising his child, cooking, chores, and other fields, also creating video art and curating. Recently, he has begun a creative project discussing family, love, and time, taking new life as its subject. His work has been displayed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and in countries such as Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, and China.

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Born in Tainan. He developed film for the first time in the fourth grade. He decided to study photography when he was studying in Tainan Normal School. He became a teacher after graduation, and purchased his first camera in 1955. In 1958 he co-founded the Phoenix Photographic Club, and in 1959, he co-founded the Anonymous Photographic Club with his friends. Starting from 1959, He won numerous awards at photography competitions. Regardless of black-and-white photos or color slides, Hsu could always catch the jury's eyes with the emotions of his photographs. After 1969, He focused on promoting photography locally, and founded the Dots Photographic Club in 1972, gathering many fellow photography lovers and making significant contributions to the promotion of photography in southern Taiwan. He specialized in capturing profound instantaneous emotions in daily life, or deconstructing through his lens the forms of objects, and creating abstract pictures through light and shadow; he most frequently observed corners overlooked by people through unconventional perspectives, making his works innovative and highly-experimental. In 1993, he planned and participated in the photographing, editing, and publishing of the photo album Historic Sites of Tainan in the Eyes of Photographers, and served as editor-in-chief of Focus on Tainan 1860-2006—History and Records of the Development of Photography in Tainan, published in 2008, which chronicled the history of photography in Tainan over nearly half a century. The 2018 Tainan International Foto Festival featured Hsu Yuan-Fu as the first Keynote Photographer.

—Reference: Sun Xiao-Tong, Photographers of Taiwan: Hsu Yuan-Fu (Taipei: National Taiwan Museum, 2018)

A native of Taipei, Mike Chuang graduated from the Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University. In 1971, Chuang went to New York, where he engaged in commercial photography, and returned to Taiwan in 1990. Chuang has organized many solo exhibitions, and won the Sun Yat-Sen Academic Award in Photography in 1984, and his Beauty of Huangshan photo album won the Golden Tripod Award in 1986. From 1981 to 1996, Chuang held solo exhibitions at the American Cultural Center in Taipei, National Gallery of National Museum of History, Spring Gallery in Taipei, and Yuanyi Art Space. His works were collected by Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1992, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2004. Chuang has published photo albums The Mount of Great Wonder—Huangshan (1985), Legends of Jade Mountain (1995), Endless Images (1997), Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (2000), and Sceneries of Six Decades (2006); Chuang has also served as juror of National Arts Exhibition, Nanying Art Exhibition, and Long Chin-San Memorial Award of Photography.

—Chuang Ming-Ching (Mike Chuang), Focus on Taiwan: Idealism vs. Realism (Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2003), 189

Chang Kuang-Ho studied photography at New York University in 1988. He brings Western darkroom techniques together with traditional Eastern ink painting techniques for the Museum series. Overturning the concept of photography as reality, he challenges the temporality of photography, because the work is continually darkening (not completely fixed). In 1994, he wrote Taiwan's first Photoshop digital image book Darkroom Terminator, creating the image composite Botany, signaling the termination of the darkroom. 18 years later, Kodak declared bankruptcy, and digital images came to prominence. In 2004, he created Digital Aesthetics of the Body, creating virtual environments using 3D illustration, revealing our existence in a reality without source or truth, a “hyperreal”. At present, augmented reality and virtual reality saturate our lives. In 2010, he re-created Botany 2.0, raising the image resolution and increasing artificial augmentation, such as fingerprints, scratches, blemishes, and dust, using an illustrative method to return to the bare, but humanistic aura that existed at the dawn of photography. In 2022, he re-created Botany 0.5 as a prelude to Botany. It is a kaleidoscopic image that continues on four sides. Employing effects from installation art, viewers can enter into a dreamlike environment.

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Born in 1986, and graduated from the Department of Architecture, Shih-Chien University 2012，MFA in New Media arts, Taipei National University of the Arts Master's degree,2016，Currently lives and works in Taipei. Chang's works are inspired by the experience of utilizing digital tools, drafting everyday narratives with participants. Through this process he explores the subtle, unforeseen connections between people, from the individual to the community. The body disciplined by technology is emphasized in his Map Poetry series which portrays a player depending heavily on navigation technology to explore the city. Miscommunications triggered by search engines form its own artistic language in Our Poetry which is a collection of trending phrases coming together to construct poetry of the people.

—Source: “CV”, Po Chieh Chang, browsed on Sep. 9, 2022, www.pochiehchang.com/cv.html

Born in Jiangsu, China. He came across photography for the first time as a child of ten. Then, he followed his uncle Chin Yuan-Hua to take pictures in many places, beginning his lifelong engagement with photography. In his early years, Chin worked in the Shanghai Bank. Amazed by the pictures he had taken, his colleagues encouraged him to sign up for the photography competition of The Young Companion. Appreciated by Long Chin-San, a jury member, Chin was awarded with a prize. This induced Chin's firm decision to switch job and work as a photojournalist for The Young Companion, marking the start of his career in photography. Chin's career was closely related to journalism. Aside from his military service in the Nineteenth Army as an information officer at the rank of major, he joined the Central News Agency as a photojournalist since 1945. In 1953, he became the first Taiwan-based representative of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Decades of career in photojournalism fostered his expertise in capturing key moments.

After retirement from the advertising business, Chin's passion for photography did not subside; on the contrary, he became keen on trying out different styles and subject matters. Having travelled in over thirty countries in the world, he used his camera to take in scenes of foreign cultures and landscapes. The corpus of pictures accumulated through his lifetime exceeds a hundred thousand. Inspired by his strong curiosity and energy, his friends in the circle of photography dubbed him as the "old gamin of photography" in his late years.

Chin's photography deals with a variety of subject matters, ranging from photojournalism, pictorial landscape, abstract figures to cultural scenes. In the capacity of a photojournalist, he recorded many important political and social events "on the spot", including the disaster relief of Hualien earthquake and the launching ceremony of a branch line of Taiwan Railways. Those pictures possess documentary value to mark the development of history. His photojournalistic aptitude for catching the "decisive moment," as well as his creative viewpoints on images cultivated by his career in advertisement business, fused in his late years to nurture his artistic productivity, allowing him to diversify his style. Resplendent in details, his subject matter is framed in a visually compelling composition. His unbound and rich vision is embodied in engrossing works that represent vast natural landscape, foreign cultures, poetic still life and so on.

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Hung Yu-Hao was born in Taipei in 1989, and graduated from the Graduate Institute of New Media Art, National Taiwan University of Arts. His creative focus centers on the expression of virtual and real in atlas images in new media environments, stemming from his life experiences at his own residence. Through his long-term observation of urban life in Wanhua, Taipei, he invests his experience of observing societal consciousness and group fluidity in plebeian spaces, further moving into drone photography, 3D scanning and VR environment production. This opens one’s cognition of time to different dimensions of place in local societal networks.

His exhibition experience includes: Liquid Streets solo exhibition in the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Joy in Pain solo exhibition in Munich, Germany. Participating in 2020 Taipei Nuit Blanche; Perforated City; Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival; 2018 Meditation Biennale in Poznań, Poland, and others. He has been nominated for The Lumen Prize; the Arte Laguna Prize; the Gold Prize in New Media Art Category of 2018 National Art Exhibition, and others. His work has been collected by the Art Bank Taiwan, as well as the OUR MUSEUM, National Taiwan University of Arts.

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Richard Lin was born in the Wufeng Lin Family Gardens, Taichung, in 1933 during the Japanese colonial era. From 1954 to 1958, he studied architecture and art at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, managed by Gimpel Fils Gallery, London. In 1964, he was invited to participate in the 3rd Documenta, Kassel, Germany. In 1967, he was jointly invited to the 44th Annual Carnegie International Exhibition alongside Chu Te-chun, Chuang Che, Walasse Ting, and Zao Wou-Ki. In 1983, the National Palace Museum collected his work Modern Painting Relief Diptych via the decision of the National Palace Museum Management Association, making him the first living artist to have his work collected by the National Palace Museum, and making his work the first work of modern art collected by the museum. He passed away in 2011 in Taichung.

—Curator Chang Kuang-Ho

Lin Tian-Fu made his name early on in portraiture, having previously worked as the photographer for the Chinese editions of fashion magazines Vogue and Elle as well as People magazine. His fashion portraiture has previously been invited for display in North America. In 1987, he travelled to China for a photography project, and for the past 30 years has centered on ethnic minorities and areas as his subject. This makes him a Taiwanese photographer who understands China rather well. His representative works include The Winter of the Tvrung vrvng, Caravan, A Half-Century of Love, and The Dragon Dance of A-Zhe of the Yi People. His most well-known work may perhaps be A Half-Century of Love, which he spent over two decades creating. He searched for couples among China's various peoples who had been married for over 50 years, recording their stories. Recently, he has switched to smartphone photography, further establishing a photography group that takes “A Picture a Day” using their smartphones. “Most people use their smartphones as a backup device, but I take a professional stance on smartphone photography”. Lin is highly involved in advocating for the convenience and instantaneity of smartphone photography.

—Teng Po-Jen, “Taking Photography as Illustration, The Colors of ‘Alchemy’ are Rich as a Fairy Tale”, 1 IMAGE ART, browsed on Nov. 9, 2022, https://www.1imageart.com/post/momo2020042301

Born 1981 in Taipei. He presses the shutter hoping to capture that fleeting moment. In the blink of an eye, he's a veteran jack-of-all-trades, at once film and television worker, weekend artist and disconnected family member. Last year through happenstance he participated in some adult film work, adding another check to his bucket list. His impulse to press the shutter has never once faded.

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From Taishan, Guangdong Province. Born 1948 in Guangzhou, later settling in Tainan. Graduated in 1970 from Tunghai University's Architecture department. In 1974, studied at Washington University at St. Louis, earning a Master's in Architecture and embarked on independent research in the art school, focusing on photography. After graduation, he worked in St. Louis, continuing his photographic craft. From 1983, he taught for 30 years in the architecture department at Tunghai University, retiring as associate professor. In 2014, he held his solo exhibition Capturing the Aura of Spaces, and published an eponymous album. In 2016, he won the first prize in the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi International Photography Competition. From 2017, he devoted himself to professional artistic photography work. He has participated in photographic art expos in San Francisco, Paris, Arles, and New York, and has held solo photographic exhibitions in cities such as Kyoto, Tokyo, Vienna, Shanghai, and Taipei.

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Lee Kuo-Min is a freelance photographer currently residing in Bali, Taipei. He began his photographic career in 1992. In 1996, he was selected for the Tainan Photographic Exhibition, and selected as the interior photographer for Arch magazine. In 1999, he began to present his works at exhibitions. In 2002, he presented his work at the Young Chinese Artists Exhibition in Munich, and in 2006, at Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei. In 2007 he was selected as an artist for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2004, he published his book, AND: Lee Kuo-Min Interior Photography Collection with Tianyuan Publishing. In 2016, A Fool for Thirty Year was collected into the permanent collection of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. In 2018 he participated in Acts Without Effort—The Societal Architecture of Hsieh Ying-Chun, by the Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum. In 2022, he participated in Action and Recovery—A Trace of Modern Architecture in Taiwan at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, and the “Keelung Tower” photography project with AxB Architecture Studio.

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Founded Taipei Photography Festival in 1991 as its first Vice Director. From 1992 to 2003, provided out of his own pocket the Taipei Photography Festival Newcomer Scholarship. Previously taught at Chinese Culture University, National Taiwan University, Shih Hsin University, and was the Jury Member for Exhibitions, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Executive Director, Chinese Photography Education Association; Consultative Committee Member, Chinese Photography Art Exchange Association; Executive Director, Taiwan Association for Photography Museums and Culture. His serial writings on photography collections have been assembled by Chinese Photography Weekly, and were published together in the 2007 Beijing Huachen Image Auction Catalogue.

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Wu Mei-Chi is from Tainan, and graduated from the Department of Traditional Art and Creative Design at National Kaohsiung University. She previously photographed a work about military villages, editing Old Times, Good Times: A Photobook of Zuoying Military Villages, leaving a final record for the Chongshih, Tzuchu, and Fuhsing villages imminently facing historical destruction. As the artistic director for NEPO Gallery, she was involved in the curation and design of photo publications. She also previously held the solo exhibitions, XXY—The Space of Things, XYX—A Moveable Feast, YXX—The Flares, as well as participating in many international joint photography exhibitions. Wu loves works by surrealist masters such as Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, and René Magritte, as well as space fantasies such as “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Interstellar”, “Inception”, and “Arrival”. Through a trilogy that investigates gravitational pull and the complexities of temporal space, she aims to reach a state of connection to cosmological fantasy.

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Currently working in photographic art creation and education, with a career in video creation spanning 32 years. Important subject works include series such as Three Times Ferried, Cycling, Ai-Ma-O, Vacuum Existence, Homeless, A Home is Not a Home, Starlight of the sea, Lonely Passage, Wondrous Plane, Thoughts, Mountain / Not-Mountain. Previously held over 12 solo exhibitions and 40-some joint exhibitions.

In 1996, he began to publish his series Three Times Ferried at the Taipei Photographic Art Gallery. His Homeless series was shown at the Nikon Salon in Tokyo, Japan in 2005; Taiwan Art Biennial in 2008; Taiwan's New Photography Generation in 2011; Eyes of an Age—100 Years of Taiwan at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2012; Into Society—Taiwan Contemporary Photography Exhibition at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2012; The South Ashore Joint Exhibition at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; Taipei International Photography Festival; Dali International Festival; Pingyao International Photography Exhibition; Beijing International Photography Week; Rêve La Terre in Paris, France; Greater Taipei Arts Festival and others.

Through his work, he aims to explore the value of life, the correspondence between time and space, the meaning of home, to impact people's understanding of surface-level existence, and to incite deep reflection in the viewer upon the meaning of the self, life, and care for others. His visual style, detailed and full of humanistic sensibilities, allows the image to further demonstrate a relationship of pensive dialectics.

In 2011, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts collected his series A Home is Not a Home, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts following suit in 2013. In 2021, the National Center of Photography and Images collected Vacuum Existence.

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Yu Chung-I holds a master's degree in Electronic Audiovisual Arts from the Graduate Institute of Technological Art, Taipei National University of the Arts. The format of her work mostly falls into live performance, still image and performance recording methods. The core philosophy of her creation mostly comes from her own life experience and from her cognitive, connective and observational senses of her daily life, as well as from her concern for time, space, the environment, and memory. She externalizes her internal cognitive experience, turning these into artistic methods of expression that can be sensed, hoping to make the viewer smile and give them some space to think.

Previously participated in Pureland—International Performance Art Festival (2021, Taiwan); 2020 Crossing Border Border Crossing International Intermedia Art Festival (2020, Hong Kong); Live Art of The Era of Compound Eyes—RANDOMIZE Intl. Unstable Media Art Festival 2019 (2019, Taiwan); UP-ON International Live Art Festival (12 Years of Live Archives, 2021; 6th Annual, 2018, Chengdu, Sichuan); ArTrend International Performance Art Festival (2021, 2020, 2017, 2014, 2010, Taiwan); 4th Cologne International Video Art Festival; SCOPE Art Show in Basel, Switzerland. Aside from in Taiwan, her works have been displayed in China, Germany, Iceland, France, India, Venezuela, Sweden, Malaysia, Switzerland, and other countries.

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Wang Pan-Yuan was born in Jiangsu, China, in 1908. Orphaned at a young age, he encountered many challenges in his early years. In 1933, he was accepted to the Department of Law at Fudan University. Later, because of his interest in art creation, he entered Shanghai University Fine Arts College the next year. During this period, he studied under masters such as Pan Tian-Shou, Pan Yu-Liang, and Liu Hai-Su, becoming proficient in media such as ink painting, watercolor, and oil painting, bringing them to bear between Chinese traditional and Western modern styles. After graduation, his art study was interrupted due to the Sino-Japanese War, preventing him from studying in France. In 1949, he brought his family to Taiwan alongside the KMT government. Later on, he settled in Yilan as an art teacher, forming the Lanyang Painting Society with friends in 1961, which down the road was invited to many domestic art exhibitions, gradually gaining recognition for their creation. In 2001, he was awarded the 5th National Culture Award, cementing his position in Taiwanese art history. In 2017, Wang passed away in Yilan at the ripe old age of 109 years old.

—Curator Chang Kuang-Ho

Wang IS (Wang Sheng-Wen) currently resides in Taiwan, and specializes in portraiture, landscapes, and architecture photography, and has won numerous first prizes and related accolades in photography competitions domestically and abroad. Based on his passion for architectural design spaces, he moved in 2016 from commercial photography to architectural photography, in particular taking Taiwanese contemporary architecture as his creative subject. Executing his creative photography project, in 2017, the X-Y Building Facade project was born, and have been collected by the Art Bank Taiwan for the second time. In 2017 he won the 1st Prize of Paris PX3 Professional Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced, the 1st Prize for Fine Art-Abstract and the 3rd Prize for Architecture-Building in 2017 Moscow International Foto Awards.

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Born in 1983. He graduated with MFA in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Arts. His artworks mainly focus on the video, film and mixed media installations. He is also the assistance professor of Communication of design in Shih Chien University.

During the creative process, Niu has investigated the incredible relations between materiality and spirituality which in our life consciousness from the individuals to groups. He has worked with different sorts of participants to narrate their past experiences for the creation of a more united, joint experience.

Niu Jun Qiang's artworks have been featured in the short film competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands; Osmosis Audiovisual Media festival in the United Kingdom; Pixilerations Tech Art Exhibition in the United States; the Aguilar International Short Film Festival in Spain; Tours Asian Film Festival in France; ARTchSO Video Festival in Rennes, France; It Takes Four Sorts: Cross-Strait Four-region Artistic Exchange Project in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival; Taipei Arts Awards in Taipei...etc. His works also had been showed in Paris, Berlin, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Mexico, Seoul, Beijing, Shenzhen. He won the 53rd Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival; Best Experimental Film in the 35th Golden Harvest Award; and was selected for the 17th Taishin Art Award.

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