Yong Woon Hwang
jtown91@naver.com
elphoto.kr,
www.ezisum.com
+82-10-8626-4414
Photo Artist
Zisum Gallery Director/Owner
2015.1
2014.8
2014.7
2014.5
2013.12
2013.11
2013.9
2013.9
2013.6
2011.1
2009.12
With Art Fair 2015 | Grand Intercontinental Seoul, Korea
Art JeonBuk Preview, Sori Arts Center Korea
Korea-Japan exhibition, Kanazawa, Japan
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Show 2014
Solo exhibition, COEX Hall, Seoul, Korea
Solo exhibition, New York
JeonJu City Preview, HISC, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Beijing, China
Korea Photo Festival 2013, SETEC. Seoul, Korea
Christian Artist exhibition, Chonsin Univ. Korea
Suwon Corrections Preview, Suwon, Korea
Photo Artist Yong Woon Hwang
One day Mr. Hwang bought a pair of glasses, but he soon had a problem: he couldn’t see through the
left side of them. He went to a glass shop and was told the glass had too many scratches, which was
why they produced a foggy effect. This was the effect of placing his camera’s viewfinder onto his
glasses too many times. But this isn’t the only problem he has faced; he has also received physical
therapy many times for his arms and fingers he works so hard.
Mr. Hwang is well known in the region where he lives because of the shoes he wears. He wears
rubber sandals all year, even in winter, because they makeit easier for him to get into water or
anywhere else he wants to go.
Through Mr. Hwang’s work he wishes to understand how to recover humanity and nature with the
right mixture of the each. Because Hanji dulls sharp lines and bright colors, he figured photographs
on Hanji would appear softer and warmer. Choosing the right type of Hanji for a given photograph
gives extra pleasure. The material offers a warm radiance different from ordinary printing paper,
which has a cold, shiny radiance. Furthermore, Hanji has diverse patterns unique to each sheet of
paper because they are all handmade.
Mr. Hwang would like to share these comforting feelings with you. Be happy with this moment.
Thank you.
Hoyoon Shin
Born: January 31, 1975
Graduated Chosun University
E-mail: shinhoyoon@gmail.com
Home page: shinhoyoon.com
Solo Exhibitions
'Heart for the king' (Dec. 2014, Siam Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand)
‘There is no essence” (Feb. 2013, Artery, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Island’ (2012.06) (Unit one, 798, Beijing, China)
‘There is no essence’ (Nov. 2011) Gwangju, Korea
“Strange flowers: secret factory vol.02. (Nov. 2007. Gwangju, Korea)
“Secret factory Vol. 01” (Nov, 2005, Gwangju, Korea)
Selected Exhibitions
2014. 9. What is essence of 'I'? (LWH gallery, Shanghai, China)
2014.05. art nova 100(K11 Art Mall, Hongkong)
2013.12 Art Nova 100 (Shanghai 1929 Artspace, Shanghai, China)
2013.12. Art Nova 100 (Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center, Shenzhen, China)
2013.11. AAF. (Pit Building, Singapore.)
2013. 9. HFAF (George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, U.S.A.)
2013. 9. Kobe Biennale (Meriken Park, Kobe, Japan)
2013. 8. Art Nova 100. (798 space, Beijing, China)
2013. 5. Korean contemporary, (schultz gallery, Berlin, Germany)
2013.04. All about Korea (White box, Munich, Germany)
2012.11. Media Variegations (AAW, 798, Beijing, China)
2012.11. Mudeun Tales (Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China)
2012.09. Exhibition of famous artists (Macau, China)
2012.09. Korean zone (ARTMIA, Beijing, China)
2012.09. Mudeung Tales.(Today Art Museum, Beijing, China)
2011.12. 'Luggage-2nd Bangkok-Asia Young Artist Festival'(Artery, Bangkok, Thailand)
2011. 12. 11th Ha Jung Woong Young Artist Invitation(Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju)
2011.05. 1st. Sofia International Paper Art Biennial.
(National art gallery & Alley Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria)
2010.10. Artfair21.(Staatenhaus Am Rheinpark, Cologne, Germany.)
2010. 09. Emerging Asian Artists.( 2010 Gwangju Bienalle, Gwangju, Korea)
2009. 05. Blue Dot Asia 2009 (Hangaram Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2008. 09. ‘delightful Zip. Chang. Chon’ 2008 Gwang-ju biennale, (Gwang-ju, Korea)
05. Funstuz: Art and play (Hangaram Museum of Art, seoul, Korea)
2006. 09. ‘Hot rapport!’ 2006 Gwang-ju biennale site 3 (Gwangju city Museum of Art, Korea)
2005 11. vol.3 exhibition. (Gwangju city Museum of Art.)
10. Frankfurt book’s exhibition. (Frankfurt, Germany)
08. Nam-bu modern art festival. (Gwangju, korea)
2004 09. 2004 Gwangju biennale site 3 (Gwangju, Korea)
09. open studio in Gwangju city Museum of Art studio for creative activity (Gwang-ju,Korea)
06. 1st international art book fair (COEX. Seoul)
2003 : -join in 5rd alternative space exhibition of Group ‘fusion’ ‘fusion in library’(Gwangju. Korea)
2002 : - Busan beach bienniale (Busan, Korea),
2001: - join in 3rd alternative space exhibition of Group ‘fusion’‘circumference or Center’ (Gwangju,
Korea),
2000 : - join in 2000 ARTFACTORY- blind love (Seoul, Korea),
1999 :- Foundary (Gwangju, Korea)
Residence Program
Gwangju city Museum of Art studio for creative activity in Bejing (2012.01-)
Dae-in art market program of Art studio for creative activity (2009.03 - 2009.11)
Gwangju city Museum of Art studio for creative activity (2005.01-2006.01)
Awards
2012.11 Grand Prize of Republic of Korea Paper Art Contest
2011. 11th Ha Jung Woong Young Artist Invitation
2011.11. Silver Medal of Republic of Korea Paper Art Contest
2006. 09 ‘Hot rapport!’ 2006 Gwang-ju biennale site 3
2002. 10.special price in busan benniale in see art festival
2002. 01. Gold medal in Tae-baek International Snow Sculpture Exhibition
2001. 01. Silver medal in Sul-ak Snow Sculpture Exhibition
2000. 04. 4th medal in Dam-yang Bamboo model Competition
Collections
Lester Marks‘s collection(USA), Yung's collection(South Korea), Crown & Haitai Co.ltd(South Korea).
建业住宅集团（中国）有限公司；建业艾美酒店(Jianye Housing Group (China) Co., Ltd.; Jianye
Meridien.)
Seongjin An
Photographic Medium Artist
An's installation at Art-Athina 2015 comprises photographs of Sakura or Cherry Blossoms. He
depicts them in the dusk or moonlight giving them a meditative aura that envelopes visitors in its
embrace. The lightness of the cloud-like Sakura are juxtapose against a dark background.
This type of night photography requires high technical skill and is able to create mood depending on
the shutter speed, aperture setting, and light sensitivity and requires very long exposures for depth
of field quality. An's Sakura blossoms are in moonlight the whole installation creates a mood of
melancholy, like a statement about the passing of propitious times.
Seongjin An was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Kwansei Gakuin Junior High
School, An lived in Korea. After studying Business Management at Seoul University, he studied
photography in the correspondence course of Kyoto University of Art and Design and the
photographic expression course of Takarazuka Media Library.
While running his father’s business and managing a fruit and vegetable market, he makes
photographic art works. His theme is to consider business management as art, and also to search for
a more flexible and tolerant society, etc.
Born in 1968, Hyogo, Japan
Education
Kyoto University of Art and Design
Graduate Seoul National University
Selected Exhibitions
2015
Solo Exhibition Cherry Blossoms, Multi Media Center, Palisades Park Library, NJ
Solo Exhibition Cherry Blossoms, Gallery in Cliffside Park Library, NJ
Scope Art Fair New York 2015, Tenri Cultural Institute Booth at the Metropositan West, New York
2014
Solo Exhibition Sakura, Sakura, Curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos, Tenri Cultural Institute of New
York, NY
Solo Exhibition, Lee C Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013
Marc Prust Rising Sun Workshop Special Exhibition, T.I.P. Blue Wall Gallery, Tokyo
Mio Photo Award Prime (Selection: Yasumasa Morimura)
Mio Photo Award Prime Exhibition (December: Tennouji Mio)
2012
Group Exhibition “Dasaek Dagam: Many Colors Many Feelings),” Gallery Toast, Seoul
Joo Hyun Kang
artsyjoo@yahoo.com
My work interprets contemporary society’s utopian aspirations while visualizing the
fundamental truth that natural phenomena embody both beauty and power. In my work, natural
and animal motifs intertwine to display such conflicts come from the fundamental instincts for
virtue and vice that reside inside of us. I find the critical edge through representations of power
against backgrounds of peace and beauty. I intend, finally, to provide a space for the dignity of
mankind. My works are metaphors for the rhythms and dualities that underlie existence. I’m
presenting nature’s realities in compositions of such seduction that the power is formalized and
mitigated.
I was born in Seoul, Korea. I completed my MFA from Pratt Institute in 1998. My work has been
exhibited at Korea Culture Center, John Jay University, The work space, Artist space, Exit Art, in
New York, Milan and Korea. My work has been reviewed in NY Art Magazine, Art in Culture, and
Symposium on Korean Contemporary Art.
Born in Seoul, Korea
New York Based Artist Since 1992
EDUCATION
1997
1996
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
2012
2010
2008
2006
2004
2003
2001
2000
1997
1996
1995
Passage, Nabi Museum of the Art, NJ,USA
Power Game II, Riverside Gallery, New York
Power Game, Tenri Art and Culture Center, New York
The Longing for Garden of Eden, John Jay College, New York
Visible-Invisible II, St. Peter’s Church, NY
The Longing for Garden of Eden, Gallery PICI, Seoul, Korea
Visible-Invisible, Multimedia center, Palisade Park Library, NJ
Encrustation and Entropy, John Jay Gallery, John Jay College, NY
Order in Chaos, New Gallery, New York, NY
Ontogenesis, Lindenberg Gallery, NY, NY
The Sacred Earth, East Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Mark on the Earth, Steuben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY
Earth And Nature, New Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2007
2005
2002
2001
2000
1998
1997
1996
1995
Sia Gallery, New York, USA
Belskie Museum, NJ, USA
Community Art Project, New York
Gold hand, Asia Society Museum
Los Angeles Convention Center, LA
Ahl Foundation of Art, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Art Miami, Miami, United States
Asian Contemporary, Las Vegas,
Banns Project, New York NY
The Road to Contemporary Art,
International Art Fair in Rome, Italy
ACAF (Asian Contemporary Art Fair) New York.
MI-ART2007, Fiera Milano International SPA, Milan, Italy
Beyond Acculturation, Tenri Gallery, New York, NY
Similarities and Difference, FGS Gallery, New Jersey
lose Approximately, Hun Gallery, New York, NY
Pulse, The Puffin Room, New York, NY
Leaps and Bounds, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Blobs, Wiggles and dots, Webs and crustillations, The Work Space, NY
Blue Sky, Manhattan Borough President Center, New York, NY
A room of Their Own, Korean Cultural Center, Washington, DC
Ruffled Feathers, The Puffin Room, New York, NY
Reaction, Exit Art, New York, NY
Small Works, 80 Washington square East Gallery, New York, NY
Asian Women’s Artist Group Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
absorption on the ground31, Space World Gallery, LIC, NY
New Movement, Artist space, New York, NY
Asian Women’s Artist Group show, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Skin Deep, Gallery Korea, Korea Culture Center, NY
1999 Confluence of Culture, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Center, NY
Ear Art, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Asian Women’s Artists Group Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Changing and Transformation, Gallery Korea, Korea Cultural Center, NY
Art of books, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY
The Annual Pratt MFA Juries Show, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
WAC Pier Show IV, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Asia Art New, May, June Issue 2010
NY ARTS, Raul Zamudio, ”Energy and Entropy” October 2003 p11
Joo Hyun Kang, Essay: Lilly Wei, “Paradise Revised”, editor at ART news and Art Asia Pacific and
write regularly for Art in America.
Joo Hyun Kang, Essay: Robert C Morgan, John Jay University, 2003
Joo Hyun Kang, Essay: Thalia Vrachopoulos, John Jay University, New York.
BongJung Kim
bong.kim258@gmail.com
1962 Born in Seoul Korea
Since 1990 Lives and Works in NY as an Artist
EDUCATION
B.F.A Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 “Addiction” Elga Wimmer-Hyun Contemporary, Chelsea, New York
“Traces” Riverside Gallery, New Jersey
2012 “Oblivion” Gallery Oms, New Jersey
“Traces” Gallery 1&9, New Jersey
2011 “Time of Red and Traces” Riverside Gallery, New Jersey
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 “8 Holes” Studio 481 Gallery”, Piermont, New York
“8 Holes” Flushing Town Hall” New York
“Shades of time” Queens Museum of Art, New York
“Heart of Gold” Nabi Museum of Art, New Jersey
“Verge Art NYC”, Soho, New York
“Shades of time” Gallery Korea in Korean Cultural Service, New York
2013 “Happy Together” Elga Wimmer PCC, Chelsea, New York
“Introspection” Tenri Gallery in Tenri Cultural Institute, New York
“Walk” Flushing Town Hall New York
“Variations on the Canon” COOHAUS ART, Chelsea, New York
“Element” COOHAUS ART, Chelsea, New York
“Asia Contemporary Art Show” Hong Kong
2012 “White Market” Gallery Oms, New Jersey
“Loud Imagery, Quiet Words 2012” Gallery1&9, New Jersey
“Korean Art Show 2012” New York
2002 “Pulse” Gallery Korea in Korean Cultural Service, New York
1998 “Asian Arts American center” New York
1990 “The Rotation and Revolution” Seoul, Korea
“The Groping of Man” Seoul, Korea
“The Collection Exhibition” Seoul, Korea
“An Art Action” Seoul, Korea
“The Great New World” Seoul, Korea
“The Modern Sculpture” Seoul, Korea
“The 1990 Exhibition” Seoul, Korea
Wang Zhijie
1972 Born in Qi Xian, Shanxi Province, China
EDUCATION
1997 MFA Beijing Institute of Education, Beijing, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Wang Zhijie: Dreamer's Wish, Asian Art Works, Busan, Korea
2013 Linger in Beauty, Asian Art Works, Beijing, China
Wang Zhijie Solo Exhibition, Pyo Gallery South, Seoul, Korea
2012 Crossed Signals-Wang Zhijie Solo Exhibition, Elga Wimmer PCC Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Wang Zhijie Solo Exhibition, Michael Schultz Gallery, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
2014 Feminine Icons in Chinese Contemporary Art, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
Feminine Icons in Chinese Contemporary Art, Gallery KONG, Seoul, Korea
Korea International Art Fair, Tenri Cultural Institute, Seoul, Korea
Art Gwangju, Asian Art Works, Gwangju, Korea
Her Girlhood Chum, Brown Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art Show Busan, Asian Art Works, Busan, Korea
2013 Korea International Art Fair, Asian Art Works, Seoul, Korea
Living Room, Asian Art Works, Busan, Korea
The Fifth Season, Asian Art Works, Beijing, China
2011 Dual Exhibition: The Girl from China, Gallery Kong, Seoul, Korea
2010 Newcastle/ Gates head, Newcastle, UK
Scope New York, New York, USA
2009 Scope Miami, Miami, USA
Newcastle/ Gates head, Newcastle, UK
Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Bridge New York, New York, USA
Dramatic Change - Group Exhibitions, Michael Schultz Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 Asian Art Festival in Miami, Miami, USA
Subvert Beijing: Art for Love, Porto, Portugal
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, China
Chinese Contemporary Art: Hai Gallery Opening Exhibition, Hai Gallery, London, UK
Pulse New York and Miami, New York, USA
China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Art, Dresden Museum of Fine Art, Dresden, Germany
Four Young Chinese Positions, Michael Schultz Gallery, Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions, Red Elation Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2007 Art Beijing, Beijing, China
2006 China International Galleries Exposition, Beijing, China
Xin Song
My recent work borrows pictures from all kind of magazines, in the service of large questions
about social & political values. Many of the issues are discussed in these magazines because they are
questions people already think about every day. Current affairs, Political, War Health, Beauty,
Fashion Population, Poverty, Luxury The Environment & the Beauty of Nature Modern Life &
Technology Sex & Taboo While I am collecting image for my paper cut collage, I consider each small
piece and its meaning, and when each piece finds its way into my work, it brings that message &
connection to the world in to my work. Every day I see, hear, feel and think about the world through
magazines which people glance through & then throw away. For me, I have found importance &
value in these materials as in many ways they are mirror the world around us.
EDUCATION
1994 Graduated Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1990 Beijing Haidian Art Vocational School, Major: Fine Art, Beijing, China
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014
“Finding new realities” Pace university, NewYork.
The “Asia Art Fair” Asia Art week, NewYork.
“Art Beijing” Zhanzhou international, Beijing, China
2013
Participate “Cut out the darkness” Panasonic launched a project to deliver solar lanterns and shades
to non-electrified regions based on the designs contributed from all over the world. Ongoing project.
On Paper/Grand Central at 100,MTA arts for Transit and Urban Design, Grand Central Terminal
Dining Concourse, Lower Lever. Sep 2013-Sep 2014.NYC.
Darkness visible, Chinese and American Artist Group Show, National Art Museum of China, curator
Richard Vine, Beijing.
Five Elements, site-specific public arts installation, Broadway Plaza, between 41-36street. NYC.
Living in a Material World, Featuring renowned Chinese and Chinese-American contemporary artist,
SUNY Orange, New York.
2012
Cutting Dreams, site-specific public arts installation, Prow Art Space, Flatiron Building, NYC
Peekskill Project V, site-specific public arts installation, guest curator Cheryl McGinnis through the
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
Routes: Spiritual Odyssey of 12 Chinese Artists, produced by JL Global Entertainment Inc. and
sponsored by Chase Bank, traveling exhibition with documentary of the same title.
August Unveiling of MTA Permanent Arts for Transit: Bay Parkway Landmark Station, D Line,
Brooklyn, NY, Design for Laminated Glass Work, Public Art (awarded in 2010), highlighted on PBS
program, Treasures of New York
Hindsight-Foresight, February 6 – March 10, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NY
Witchy Women, June 1 - July 13, 73 Dee Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey
Every Pictures Tells A Story, Amy Simon fine Art, Westport, CT
2011
The Point At The Infinity Of The Circle, Red Zone Gallery , Switzerland, Geneva
2011 Paper Art Biennial National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria. (catalog)
Inter-Mediate: Seliected Contemporary Chinese-American Art, Sarnoff Museum, The College of New
Jersey.
Ocean Fantasy, The Fashion Center Space for Public Art, New York, NY
2010
Cut It Up! Contemporary Papercutters Exhibition, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Song Xin: Contemporary Palimpsest, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY
MTA Permanent Arts for Transit: Bay Parkway Landmark Station, D Line, Brooklyn, NY, Design for
Laminated Glass Work
Push/Pull, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Mentoring Program for
Immigrant Artists
The Last Loft Show, Puffin Room Gallery, Not-for-Profit, New York, NY
2009
Breaking Lines: Hu Bing & Xin Song, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY
Trans-formation, Art Next Gallery, New York, NY
Seeds of the Wild, Puffin Room Gallery, Not-for-Profit, New York, NY
2008
Coney Island, Maybe? Puffin Room Gallery, Not-for-Profit, New York, NY
Song Xin: New Bloom, Tao Water Gallery, Provincetown, MASong Xin, Fine Art Work Center Gallery.
Provincetown, MA
Touched by Women’s Hands, Lin Yan Guest Curator, Catalogue, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York,
NY
Visual Art Fellow Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM),
Provincetown, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PUBLICATION
S30 minute documentary interview “In Focus”, SinoVision Channel on cable channel 73,Jan 2014
Xinsong’s paper architecture at Grand Central station, Installation magazine issue 34, 2013
Xin Song :On Paper,Grand Central at 100,New York Post, Oct 1, 2013
Xin Song: Grand Central at 100, World Journal, New York, Oct 12, 2013
Xin Song: Grand Central at 100, China Press, New York, Oct 12, 2013
Xin Song: Grand Central at 100, China News Agency, Oct 12, 2013
Xin Song: Five elements, The Columbia Journalist, 2013
Xin Song: Five Elements, China News Agency, July 12, 2013
Xin Song: Five elements, World Journal, New York, July 12, 2013
Xin Song:Five elements, China Press, New York, July 12, 2013
Xin Song: Five elements, WWD News, 2013
Xin Song: Five Elements, DNA info, 2013Cutting Dream: Asian Art News review June. Robert C
Morgan.2013
Xin Song: Cutting Dream, World Journal, New York, Dec 06, 2012
Xin Song: Cutting Dream, China Press, New York, Nov 30, 2012
Cutting Dreams: Xin Song Lights Up NewYork with Chinese Folk Motifs, Tina Seligman, Art of the
Times fall/winter issue, 2012
Treasures of New York, MTA Arts in Transit, PBS WLIW (Channel 21) – June 27, 2012 at 7pm; WNET
(Channel 13) – July 5, 2012 at 8:30pm
Femininity in Contemporary Asian Women Artist Works from China,Korea and USA---If the Shoe
Fits, by Art Historian, Patricia Karetzky, 2012
China Press, New York, May 7, 2012
Ming Bao Newspaper, New York, May 7, 2012
What Art in New York?, Beijing news, 2/19 2012 China
New China, New Art, Richard Vine, Prestel USA; Revised edition (September 30, 2011)
Artist of the Month: XinSong, Revisiting the Garden of Eden, by Michèle Vicat,
3dotswater.com.October 2010.
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Breaking Lines, Joe Bendick, Chelsea Clinton News, New York, NY, May 28,
2009
Review of Breaking Lines at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, Sing Tao Daily, New York, NY, May 20, 2009
Touched by Women’s Hands, Catalogue, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY, 2008
Dream and Fish, Book Cover image for Provincetown Writing Fellow, 2008
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2012 MTA Arts for Transit: 6 Line, Bronx NY, Finalist with Honorarium for Design for Ironworks
2012 MTA Arts for Transit: M Line, Brooklyn NY, Finalist with Honorarium for Design for Ironworks
2010 MTA Permanent Arts for Transit: Bay Parkway Landmark Station, D Line, Brooklyn, NY, Design
for Laminated Glass Work
2010 MTA Arts for Transit: D Line, Brooklyn NY, Finalist with Honorarium for Design for Ironworks
2010 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Center, New York, NY
2010 The Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York,
NY
2007 Puffin Foundation for art Grant
2007-2008 Provincetown Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
TEACHING ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
2012 Visiting Artist Lecture, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2012 Chinese Paper Cutting Techniques, 150th Anniversary Event for Flushing Town Hall,
Smithsonian Affiliate, Flushing, NY
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Art E, Art Enlightenment for Children, Cheryl McGinnis, New York, NY
2010 Shadow Puppet Workshops, Flushing Town Hall, Smithsonian Affiliate, Flushing, NY
2010 Shadow Puppet and Paper Cutting Workshop,P.S 1662009 Shadow Puppets and Paper Cutting
Workshop, Calhoun private school, NewYork,NY
2008 Shadow Puppets and Paper Cutting Workshop, Public School 26205Q, Bayside, NY
2008 Kids Art Partners in Education, 6-week Program, Fine Art Work Center, program.6 week
workshop
2008 Shadow Puppets and Paper Cutting Workshop, Puffin Grant, 4-week workshop, SoHo,
Chinatown, New York, NY
2006-2007 Shadow Puppet Workshops, Brooklyn students and Brooklyn Public Libraries, NYC Dept
of Cultural Affairs and the Ford Foundation/Brooklyn Art Council
2001 English Bridge, Featured artist & instructor for Chinese paper cuts, program on China Central
Television.
Tang Wei Hsu
http://www.hsu-tangwei.com
Tang-Wei Hsu (1980 born in Taiwan) currently lives and works in New York. He obtained a BA in
Architecture at the Shih Chien University and finished an MFA in Visual Arts at the Tainan National
University of the Arts. His paintings begin from an imagined fantasy space extending into
installation, sculpture and public art.
Tang-Wei creates complex drawings as well as mixed media installations composed of his drawings,
paintings, and architectural features. He often alludes to nature in his work and interprets physical
features of our universe like the stars and astronomy, either at close range or at a distance. By
combining his fanciful worlds with practical architectural features he asks us to suspend our
disbelief and to embrace his fantasy terrains and enjoy them as part of our everyday surroundings.
Those works hope to produce the relationship between the miniature and enormous scale in his
paintings. Different layers from the painting produce many relationships, in order to make this
imaginary space or scene are fantastic as outer space, every statuses of every distance are
compressed into the flat paintings. Also extends the new imagine and fantasy from this space, by
creating some clustered symbols in an artificial way, to make it feels like some unknown biology,
biological unit, and various imagination of scenes.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 “Observatory”, Art Projects Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 “The Selection of Sketchings”, CANS Tea & Book House, Taipei, Taiwan
“Nature’s Wonderland”, ASYMMETRIK Gallery, New York
2012 “A Crack in Time”, Beyond Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 “Indescribable Scenes”, Gallery 456, New York
“Sphere of Planetesimals – Tang-Wei Hsu ”, National Central University Art Center, Taiwan
2008 “Evolutionism-Hsu Tang-Wei”, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan
“Solo Exhibition of HSU Tang-Wei & CHUNG Shun-lung”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 “Dredging up the drift”, ITPARK Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 “Fantasy”, the Art Center of Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2004 “Follower”, Sly Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Residencies
2013
2012
2011
2010
Art@Renaissance (A@R), New York
New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation (NARS), New York
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Awards
2009
National Culture and Arts Foundation, Creative Subsidy
Asian Cultural Council, Artist Abroad Subsidy
2005
Taoyuan Creative Award, First Place
Taipei Fine Art Award, Honorable Selected
Public Art
2013 “Monkey Magic”, Urban Art Program : NYC DOT, New York
2011 “Fantastic Planet”, Nangang Station, Taipei, Taiwan
2010
“Universe Flower – 2010 Taipei Lantern Festival Public Art Exhibition”, Taipei City Hall, Taipei,
Taiwan
“Space poem fragments – Ground Art Festival”, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
“Arbor of Luminous Fruit”, Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan
2009 “Welcome to the Galaxy Railway”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 “Star Cluster”, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan
Group Exhibitions
2014
“Solstice Synergy”, Mahlstedt Gallery, New York
“Emrupt – International Contemporary Art Exhibition", Leigh Wen Fine Art, New York
“Episode 8”, NARS Foundation, New York
2013
“Love Love : Animamix Biennale 2013-14”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“Delicate Enchantments", NARS Foundation, New York
“Rainbow Pixies”, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York
“Nature Phenomenon”, 4heads: 6th Annual Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, New York
“Fantasy on the spot”, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
“See.Me Happy Hour”, Big Screen Plaza, New York
“The Story of the Creative”, See | Exhibition Space, New York
“Toy Story”, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan
“Untitled”(drawing on site with En Masse), The Governors Ball NYC Music Festival, New York
“Untitled”(drawing on site with En Masse), Fountain Art Fair 2013, New York
“Landscape of Spectacle: 2013 Treasure Hill Artist Village Lantern Festival”, Taipei, Taiwan
“3rd Next Super Star” CANS, Taipei, Taiwan
2012
“Innovation & Re-creation” Selected Works from the NTMoFA Young Artist Collection, National
Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“CAFAM-FUTURE” CAFAM Art Museum, Beijing, China
“Future Pass” National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum,
Shanghai
“2nd Next Super Star” CANS, Taipei, Taiwan
“4heads: 5th Annual Governors Island Art Fair”, Governors Island, New York
“Monster Drawing Rally 2012”, DUMBO Arts Center, New York
“GO: a community-curated open studio project”, NARS Foundation, New York
“5th Annual Open Studio”, NARS Foundation, New York
“Objects in Motion”, NARS Foundation, New York
2011
“2011 Taipei lantern festival”, Zhongshan Station line park, Taipei, Taiwan
“2011 ISCP Open Studio”, Brooklyn, New York
“Postcards To North Brooklyn”, Arts@Renaissance Center, New York
2010
“Art Fair in Taipei”, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei
“Non-Places: Architecture of pheromonal presence”, Shih-Chien university, Taipei, Taiwan
“Very Fun Park”, East District of Taipei, Taiwan
“Pattern of Art”, TAI YU Beaux Arts Salon, Chiayi, Taiwan
“Art Taiwan – Su Meng-hung & Hsu Tang-Wei Group Exhibition”, Taipei Cultural Center in Tokyo,
Shinagawa, Japan
“Best Wishes for You”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“7th Chinese Character Festival”, BR4 Train station, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
“Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA “, TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan
“CIGE 2009”, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
“Cow Parade Taipei 2009”, Huashan1914 Creative Park, National Taiwan
“Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival 2009”, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse”, Art With The Heart, Chiayi, Taiwan
2008
“Searching for the Ma-Wei-Du” MOT ARTS/HOME DELUXE, Taipei, Taiwan
“Art is Now-2008 Busan Biennale Side Show”, Busan, Korea
“Mix & Match Vision-Invitation for 2008 Contemporary Art Communication Across Taiwan Straits”,
Wu Jiao Chang 800 Art Space, Shanghai, China
“Sleepwalking in the Crevice of Cat and Hermann Minkowski”, Warehouse No.20, Taichung, Taiwan
“Young young-young artists’ irresolute purpose”, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
“Spume Black Tea – Taipei MOMA”, The Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic
2007
“Not Full Enough – Asia Art Biennale”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2006
“Variety of Arts", Taoyuan Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taiwan
“Play", NCKU Art Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
“Manga", VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
“New and light art", Art Center of Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li, Taiwan
“Black and white sketch exhibition", Chienguo Technology University, Changhua, Taiwan
2005
“One More Glance", IT-Park, Taipei, Taiwan
“Chameleons", The Sun Arcade, Honk Kong
“X-L “, 138 Art Station, Tainan, Taiwan
“The Enantiomorph -the other and the divergences “, The Art Center of Tainan National University
of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
“Fubon Arts", Taipei Fubon Building, Taipei, Taiwan
“The Flu", Joint Exhibition of Sly Art, Sin Pin Pier – Absolutely Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“Formidable", Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
“Joint Exhibition of Taipei Fine Arts", Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Lin Shih Pao
Lin Shih Pao lives and works in New York and Japan. He was born in Taiwan, studied in Japan, and
completed graduate school at New York University. Lin’s work always reflects the most profound
concepts of Asian philosophy, namely a deep sympathy for human beings and an appreciation of the
value of the union of humans and nature. His installations are urgently concerned with
communication, and gather thousands of participants to form a huge conceptual sculpture.
Therefore, the participants lend a democratic character to his work. He is widely known as the
"Penny Artist" after his Penny for Peace(1997) project, in which he collected one million pennies to
form a gigantic, three-ton sculpture, which is now permanently displayed at Hiroshima University.
He has participated in group exhibitions at the 2005 Expo in Japan as well as the Museum of
Modern Art in Saitama, Japan. His most recent solo show was held at the Fukuoka City Art Museum.
In 2006, he collected one hundred thousand pacifiers to form a Christmas tree piece. In 2005, he
was invited to make a piece called "Gate of Peace" for the world's fair in Tokyo, for which he
collected one million pens. Lin’s work has been collected by many museums, corporations, and
exhibited in many international museums. Lin’s paintings often juxtapose traditional Asian brush
ink landscapes with contemporary mixed media constructions, resulting in "post-surreal"
landscapes.
Education
1996
MFA. Fine Art department, New York University
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
2014
2013
“Paying tribute to invention and contradiction”will be performed in Taiwan
Performed and created with workmen “The Pink “Like” Car” at Union Square, New York
“Tribute to the life and nature” , Taigu Gallery, Taipei Taiwan
October 31st~ December 15th Performed “The Pink “Like” Car” 10 Cities in Taiwan
January – March Performed with people “Text go ahead Fly up” in Taiwan
May Performed and created with workmen “Sun in Action” at Union Square in New York
Performed calligraphy at John Jay College in New York City
2012 Performed with Taiwan community in NY “Please help to pass a dream”
2011 Solo exhibition “Please help to pass a dream” at Gallery 456, New York
2010 “Christmas Love TreeⅡ”made with 12,000 plastic bottles and performed with people in
New York
2009 “ Dream Castle” and “ Tiger” made with 15,000 metro cards in New York
2008 Placed the public sculpture “Heavenly Timing, Earthly Advantage, Human Harmony:
Infinity ∞”, New York
2007 “Heavenly Timing, Earthly Advantage, Human Harmony: Infinity ∞” Queens Crossing Art,
New York
2006 “Peace March Ⅲ “Christmas Love Tree” made with 200,000 pacifiers and performed with
people in Fukuoka-city of Japan
2005 Performed with people “Gate of Wisdom” made with 300,000 used pens at the 2005 EXPO
JAPAN
2003 Held solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama(Japan)
2002 Held solo exhibition “Directions”in New York Elga Wimmer Gallery
2001 Held solo exhibition at Fukuoka City Art Museum (Japan)
2000 Held solo exhibition at National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen memorial hall “Wedding March”
1998 Held rotating exhibition in New York, Taipei and Japan
Penny for Peace permanent installation to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
founding of Hiroshima University
1997 Completed the Million pennies statue “Peace March”
1996 Held solo exhibition in Canada.
1995 Held solo exhibition in New York
1994 Held solo exhibition to commemorate the opening of Takashimaya in Taipei
1993 Held solo exhibition at Taipei City Art Museum
1992 Held solo Exhibition (Kasugai,Nagoya)
1990 Exhibited at the 22nd Nitten, Japanese Painting Section on his first submission.
Held solo Exhibition (Nagoya,Taiwan)
1985 “A Day in the Life of Lin, Shih-pao” broadcast by China Television, Taiwan
1986 Held solo Exhibition (Tokyo)
1989 Held solo Exhibition (Tokyo)
Traveled in France, Spain, Germany, Holland and Austria
Elected a “Statue for World Peace”
1987 Held solo Exhibition (Toyama)
Selected Group exhibitions
2014
2010
2008
2004
TAAC Recognition, Queens Museum, New York
Meditation in Contemporary Landscape, Godwin Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY
Outside in: New Realm for Taiwan Art, Taipei Cultural Center, Columbia University
“Clothing & Eating” “Nexus” Queens Museum of Art, New York
Award
2011 Award from UN of America as the Earth Friendly Artist
2000 Outstanding Asian artist in New York
1999 Received New York modern art media award
1979 -1982 National Art exhibition every year
1987 Received an award at the Exposition “France-Japan” Salon Comparaisons
1998
1989
1991
1992
1992
1989
National Grand Prix Exhibition
International Ink-painting Exhibition
Asian Modern Art Exhibition
National Ink-painting Grad Prix Exhibition
Asian Modern Art Exhibition
National Ink-painting Grad Prix Exhibition
Major award for modern Japanese cultural arts
Exposition “France-Japan” Salon Comparisons
Exposition “France-Japan” Salon Comparisons
National Masterpiece Exhibition
New York modern art media award