Modified, shifted or transferred elements amounting to new relationships between status and object: herein lies the pulse of Chou Yu-Cheng’s (b. 1976) practice that builds, across multiple mediums, a subtle critique of mass media, institutions and the mechanisms that produce them. A graduate from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the research programme La Seine, Chou has gained international recognition for his dialectical interplay between the source and results of his creations. Through his selective conversations, Chou shapes a minimal yet deliberate set of intellectual and aesthetic tricks, which ultimately play on the properties of art, object and space.


Chou Yu-Cheng was born in 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan. Chou currently lives and works in Taipei. Paintings, objects and performances are central to his practice, questioning society and the place of art within it. Installations have incorporated audiences, performers and the gallery space itself to examine the structure of cultural industries: how corporate sponsorship influences art institutions, as well as the role of less visible workers such as cleaners and security guards. His work has explored attitudes around hygiene and how new diseases have changed the way societies operate. Series of abstract paintings experiment with pigment and technique to explore ideas around nature and the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Chou sees his work as an amalgamation of Western and Taiwanese traditions.

Kate Macgarry

Taipei

Taipei Art Awards

Performa

New York City

La Biennale de Lyon

Lyon

Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool

Taipei Biennial

Beijing

Art Beijing

Basel

Art Basel

Hong Kong

Art Basel Hong Kong

Paris

Asia Now Paris

Fiac

Art New York

Miami

Pulse

Brussels

Art Brussels

Jeune Création

Kiang Malingue

London

Petzel

Eslite Gallery

International Studio & Curatorial Program

Tkg+

Project Fulfill

Beijing Minsheng Art Museum

Tai Kwun Contemporary Art

Manila

Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (Mcad)

Seoul

Arko Art Center

Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Taipei Contemporary Art Center

Grand Palais

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Taipei Fine Art Museum

Queens Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) Taipei

Genoa

Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce

Naples

Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli

Nîmes

Carré D’Art-Musée D’Art Contemporain

Palais De Tokyo

Chippendale

White Rabbit Gallery

Berlin

Künstlerhaus Bethanien

Kaohsiung City

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

Denver

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Chou Yu-Cheng 周育正

Kunstlerhaus Bethanien

Cité Internationale Des Arts

Korea National University Of Arts

National Taiwan University (Ntu)

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