Huang Chia-Ning, born in Taipei, 1979, currently lives and works in Taipei.

Huang Chia-Ning continues her realistic painting of life scenes and brings back memories of life by precisely depicting a balance between reality and perception. The approach of the artist is to use 4×6 inch or smaller photographs for sketching, take the information from the photographs as the content of her paintings, and faithfully depict the image to express the differences between perfect photographs and paintings. Those differences are about the interaction and understanding of different aspects and stages of visual perception, which filled with personal experiences and become a kind of existence outside of time.

Zhang Xu Zhan is internationally recognized for his unique stop-motion animation video works, combining traditional crafts with his interest in the evolution of cultural beliefs. He was awarded the 2021 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year, with his work exhibited at Palais Populaire, Berlin, and will feature in the upcoming exhibition at The Museum of Cultures of Milan (MUDEC) in September. His significant solo exhibition will be held at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in August. Zhang Xu Zhan’s paper puppet sculptures are handmade using traditional Taiwanese zhi zha techniques,  depicting characters based on familiar folktales, reflecting the universality yet transformative nature of our cultural containers.

Tomoko Nagai is known for the fantastical worlds that she depicts in her paintings. Her signature use of candy-pastel colors depict dreamscapes often filled with teddy bears, children, animals and plants. These scenes remind viewers of fairy tale worlds where magical places and encounters with a host of imagined characters are possible. Her paintings resemble picture book narratives that she leaves open-ended, “when I think about the different views and stories that come from different viewers, it is like a journey on a spaceship, bound for limitless possibility – it’s exciting.”

Hsieh Mu-Chi’s art practice reflects his ongoing dialogue between contemporary painting and Taiwan’s art history during the nation-building era of the 20th Century. For Hsieh, bold is an understatement, known for his richly layered, colorful paintings, he adeptly interweaves landscape, figure painting, historical as well as contemporary cultural references in a captivating composition. His latest series delves deeper into the heritage of Taiwan’s abstract painting and how contemporary artists today are reinterpreting this legacy. Hsieh’s 2019 solo exhibition was a finalist of the Taishin Art Award, and he was recipient the 2021 CTBC Painting Prize Merit Award, with his work acquired by the CTBC Foundation for Arts and Culture collection.

LEE Shi-Chi who has co-founded the “Modern Print Art Association” with YANG Yu-Yu, CHIN Song as well as other artists in 1959. He joined “Ton Fon Art Group” in 1963 and became an indispensable member. He has been devoted to the promotion of modern art for a long time. In 2012, he was awarded “National Award for Arts”. His creative process spans different media, from the modern printmaking in 1960s, the expression of ready-made objects in late 1960s, the combination of poetry and calligraphy in 1970s, and the lacquer painting that started to develop in 1990s. His daring and experimental spirit has earned him the reputation of “Bird of Variation in Art” in Taiwan art field.

HSIAO Chin (1935- ), winner of “National Award for Arts”, was the earliest artist among the members of “Eight Gallants” to go to Western for development. In 1965, he studied in Spain, during his stay in Europe, he has held several exhibitions of “Ton Fon Art Group “which made him an important promoter for the exchange of art between the East and the West. Under the banner of “Mindfulness”, he had founded “Punto International Art Movement” which was the only international avant-garde art movement in the post-war west initiated by Asian artists and ideologically based on Eastern philosophy.

OYAN Wen-Yuen (1928-2007 ) is an important representative artist of Taiwan’s post-war abstract painting who had been living in Brazil for many years and his works were mainly published abroad. He was the first student to study in LI Chung-sheng’s studio and was the initiator of “Ton Fon Art Group”. Working in ink and oil painting mediums, he was a freelance writer who abstracts from objects and images, daring to pursue creative forms of ideas and concepts. He gained international prestige very early and his works were collected by Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil.

Currently situated in Norway, American artist Charlie Roberts, receives his creative inspiration from traditional art, pop culture, hiphop, comics, folk art, and artists such as Matisse, Ensor, Florine Stettheimer, etc. Roberts explores across different medias, blurring the boundaries of forms, breaking established models for art and creation. Charlie Roberts has involved himself in wood sculpting, ceramic production and oil painting. Roberts has the courage to try to create with new materials, styles and techniques; filling his work with energy and unique expressions. Roberts elongates his figures, making them slimmer and giving them seemingly impossibly long limbs; featuring a cast of humans, animals, and hybrid creatures enacting bizarre, surreal scenarios.

Maja Djordjevic (b.1990, Serbia) lives and works in Belgrade and London and has completed her BA and MA at Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade. She has participated in various solo and international exhibitions including This Must Be The Place at Carl Kostyál Gallery, London; Deal Again at Balkan Projects, LA; I am Always a Different Person at Dio Horia Gallery, Athens; The Artist is Online at Koning Gallery, Berlin; Mixed Pickles 9 at Ruttkowski Gallery, Munich; and her participation at the 57th October Art Salon, Biennial exhibition, Belgrade. Her work has been featured on Juxtapoz, Time Out London, Hypebeast among other art publications. She has received two awards for Painting, the former being the Ristai Beta Vukanović prize and the latter from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.

A central figure of Düsseldorf’s postwar Group Zero, Günther Uecker has for six decades developed his reliefs comprising dynamic arrangements of nails. Born in 1930 in Wendorf, Germany, Uecker studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where he lives and works today.
His work resides in such collections as the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Tate Modern, London. Among his many honors are the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (2000) and the Staatspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (2015).