Yi CHEN

In Yi’s cross-disciplinary artistic practice, he aims to explore issues including human desire, existence, data, environment, politics, economy, and society through the observation and comparison of tangible substance and virtual consciousness. Chen is accustomed to reassemble concepts, media, issues, and site-specific contexts in a set environment. With such a basis, he adopts philosophical dialectic and artistic language in his practice.  


Chen Yi graduated from Taipei National University of Arts. He received the top prize of the “2006 Taipei Arts Award”. In 2010, Yi founded the art collective LuxuryLogico when he digressed from his personal practice to participate in collaborative creation. LuxuryLogico based on the concept of “hybrid”, inspired by natural environment, tackling thoughts and ideas that filled the spectacles of contemporary society, integrating modern technology and cultivation of humanities, representing their ideas via “music,” “visuality,” “installation,” and “document,” their works of fantasies manifest in various forms and genres, including drama, movies, dance, architecture, music and social behavior. Group exhibitions include in Taiwan Biennial 2012; Asian Art Biennial 2013; Asia Triennial Manchester 2014; Thailand Biennale 2018; Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2022. In 2019, LuxuryLogico received Presidential Culture Award, Youth Creative Award, Taiwan.

Education

2007        M.F.A., Taipei National University of Arts,
                Department of Arts and Technology

2003        B.F.A., Tung Hai University,
                 Department of Landscape Architecture

Solo Exhibitions

2022         “Rating |||||| ||”, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2021         “Lichen_”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien,Berlin, Germany

2019         “The Most Beautiful Scenery”, Openspace Bae,
                 Busan, South Korea

2015         “Flowing”, 18th street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA

2012         “Fruition – Fulfill Arts”, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2011         “Fly! no matter what”, Taishin Bank Tower, Taipei, Taiwan

                “Dot‧Dot‧Dot”, MOT Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2010         “Traveling, Here!”, National Central University Art Center,
                  Taoyuan, Taiwan

                 “Dust”, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan

                 “Project Woodpecker-Teignac Projet”, Treignac Projet,
                  Treignac, France

                 “Miscarriage of Time”, IT PARK Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2009         “The flowing feast”, Galerie Grand Siecle, Taipei, Taiwan

2005         “Rear”, ETAT, Taipei, Taiwan

Group Exhibitions

2022        “Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale”,
                MonET Theater, Echigo Tsumari, Japan

2022        “Gaia.: Gene, algorithm, intelligent design, automata_A mirage                       self, The Other Realm”, MOCATaipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2021        “Enlight”, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

                “ALC videort festival 2021”,
                MACA Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

                 “Signals: CREATORS 2020–21”,
                 Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan

2020         “Taipei Dangdai”, Gallery Eslite, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “2020 Taiwan Lantern Festival”, Houli Forest Park,
                  Taichung, Taiwan

2019         “Where Have All The Flowers Gone – These Flowers”,
                  MOCATaipei, Taipei, Taiwan

                 “Beyond the Shadows”, Chi Mei Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

2018         “Re-Base: When Experiments Become Attitude”,
                 Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “2018 Taichung World Flora Exposition”,
                  Houli Forest Expo Site, Taichung, Taiwan

                  “Thailand Biennale Karabi 2018: Edge of the Wonderland”,
                  Krabi, Thailand

                  “the Hidden South”, Dawu Township, Taitung, Taiwan

                  “2018 Taoyuan Industrial Art Festival-《RE：ART 》”,
                  Zhongli Laojie Creek Park , Taoyuan, Taiwan

2017         “2017 Parallax”, Taiwan Chung Hsing Paper Corporation,
                 Yilan, Taiwan

                  “2017 Nuit Blanche” , Treasure Hill Artist Village,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

                  “2017 Kuan-Du Light Art Festival”,
                  Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “You are the Sunshine of my Life－
                  2017 Treasure Hill Light Festival”,
                  Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2016         “Life in Between Delight and Discomfort”,
                 Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea

                  “Nightlife”, École nationale supérieure
                  des beaux-arts de Paris, Paris, France

                  “Regeneration Movement”,
                  National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
                  Taichung, Taiwan

                  “The Way Things Go”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

                  “I "Re" Hsinchu: Contemporary Art Exhibition”,
                  Hsinchu City Art Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2015         “We all cannon fodder of this epoch”,
                  Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2014         “Asia Triennial Manchester”,
                 Museum of Science and Industry,
                 Manchester, United Kingdom

2013         “Everyday Life—2013 Asian Art Biennial”,
                 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
                 Taichung, Taiwan

                  “FASCINATION / IMAGINATION”, K11 Art Mall,
                  Hong Knog, China

                 “Pause in Time and Space- Taiwan Video Art Exhibition”,
                  Taipei Digital Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Landscape of Spectacle”, Treasure Hill Artist Village,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

                  “True Illusion, Illusory Truth—Contemporary Art
                  Beyond Ordinary Experience”,
                  Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2012         “Seed Project IV—Transcendence of Illusion”, Art Arch,
                 Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Yes, Taiwan—2012 Taiwan Biennial”,
                 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
                 Taichung, Taiwan

                  “Crush on EMU”, Museum of Contemporary Art,
                Taipei, Taiwan

                  “The First CAFAM Future Exhibition”, CAFA Art Museum,
                 Beijing, China

                  “MADATAC 04 Contemporary Advanced New Media
                 Audiovisual Art Festival”, Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain.

                  “2012 Very Fun Park”, Songshan Cultural and Creative
                  Park, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Cun—Chang Kuang Bin’s Painting v.s New Media Art
                  from Taiwan”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Down the Rabbit Hole”, The White Rabbit Gallery,
                  Sydney, Australia

                  “Visual Vertigo—New Works by Six Taiwanese
                  Media Artists”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

                 “Transjourney – 2012 Future Media Festival”,
                  Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

2011         “1+1:A Cross-Strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange
                  Project ”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen,
                  China

                  “1+1:A Cross-Strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange
                  Project ”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China

                  “1+1:A Cross-Strait Four-Regions Artistic Exchange
                  Project ”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Vision of Nature: Lost & Found in Asian Contemporary
                  Art”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China

                  “Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art”,
                  National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

                  “2011 Taipei World Design Expo”, Songshan Cultural &
                  Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Macross”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2010         “Time Unfrozen - From Liu Kuo-Sung to New Media Art”,
                  Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Re-shaping the History”, National Convention Center,
                  Beijing, China

                  “2010 Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art”,
                  Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Extreme Sensibility-Taiwanese Contemporary Video Art” ,
                 Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, USA

                  “Super Generation @ TAIWAN, Today Art Museum”,
                  Beijing, China

2009         “Super Gengration @ TAIWAN, Shanghai Art Museum”,
                  Shanghai, China

                  “Move On Asia 2009”,Para/Site Art Space,
                   Hong Kong, China

                  “Move On Asia 2009”,Gallery LOOP, Seou. South Korea

2008         “Room 19”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “New Faces”, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Looking for Horse Latitude”, MOT ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Trans-3rd Digital Art Festival Taipei 2008”,
                  Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Beyond a dial logue”, National Taiwan Museum of
                  Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

                  “Eye of the City”, Museum of Contemporary Art,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Beyond a dial logue”, Hong-Gah Museum,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Digit@logue”, Hong Kong Museum of Art,
                  Hong Kong, China

2007         “Plug and play”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
                  Taichung, Taiwan

                  “Taiwan-Australia New Media Arts Exhibition”,
                  Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Ongoing -Taiwan New Media art”, Allison Residence,
                  New York, USA

                  “Outstanding Art Prize of Fine Arts Department”,
                  Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2006         “2006 Taipei Arts Award”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

                  “Outstanding Art Prize of Fine Arts Department”,
                  Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “The 6th Seoul New Media Festival”, NEMA Exhibition,
                  Seoul.

                  “SlowTech”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

                  “After Dark”, Hua Shan Cultural and Creative Industry
                  Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2004         “Taiwan Avant-garde Documenta II - Fantasy and Obiect” ,
                  Hua Shan Cultural and Creative Industry Center,
                  Taipei, Taiwan

 

Performance 

2013        “Sin City” Performance, Songshan Cultural & Creative Park,
                 Taipei, Taiwan

2012        “M” Interdisciplinary Performance, private studio,
                Taipei, Taiwan

2011        “Equal” Interdisciplinary Performance, Hua-Shan Creative
               Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2010        “Day” Interdisciplinary Performance, Hua-Shan Creative
                Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2010        “SPIN 2010”Interdisciplinary Performance,
                 Experimental Theater, Taipei, Taiwan

Award

2019        Presidential Culture Award, Youth Creative Award, Taiwan

2017        La Vie Creative Awards , Taiwan

2006       2006 Taipei Arts Award, Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
                Taipei, Taiwan

2006        S-An Art Award, S-An Cultural Foundation, Taiwan

2006        Outstanding Art Prize of Fine Arts Department,
                 Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

Artist in Residence

2021        Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2019        Openspace Bae，Busan, South Korea

2016        École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts,Paris, France

2015         18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA

2010        Treignac Projet, Treignac, France

Public Collections

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung

White Rabbit Gallery，Sydney

Jut Art Museum，Taipei

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︎ CV (June. 2023)