Yao Jui-Chung

Born in 1969 in Taipei, Taiwan
Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan

Graduated from the Taipei National University of the Arts with a degree in art theory.

Yao specializes in photography, installation, and painting. The themes of his works are varied, but they all examine the absurdity of the human condition.

In recent years, he has created photo installations combining the style of “gold and green landscape” with the superstitions that permeate Taiwanese folklore, expressing a false and alienated “cold reality” that is specific to Taiwan.

Ava Hsueh

Born in 1956 in Taichung, Taiwan
Lives and works in Taichung, Taiwan

Ava Hsueh obtained her D.A. degree in Arts from New York University, and currently serves as the Professor Emeritus in the Tainan National University of the Arts. She has been appointed as the Director of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Chief Executive of National Cultural and Arts Foundation, and has served as the Dean of the College of Visual Arts, the Chair of the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory in Tainan National University of the Arts.

Hsueh has long chosen abstract language as her artistic expression. In dexterously conjuring biomorphic abstraction and geometric abstraction, she creates a hybrid reality that corresponds to epochal shifts in contemporary abstract art.

Lin Ju

Born in 1959 in Yilan County, Taiwan

Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan

In the real world, Lin Ju is a storyteller, a traveler in a dreamland who sometimes appears eccentric, with perhaps a bit of feigned insanity. He believes in the idea of life, with religious, even cultish passion. The imagery of his painting depicting entities with severed limbs devouring each other, seemingly points out another way to salve his calloused soul. Often terrifying at first sight, Lin Ju’s work is permeated with a peculiar sense of mysticism and irrationalism.

An abstract artist since the 1960s, Fong Chung-Ray (b.1933, China) is considered to be one of the major Chinese avant-garde artists. Initially, his work focused on abstract landscapes, but he gradually moved away from this movement when he turned to Buddhist spirituality. By going beyond the formal representation of nature, Fong Chung-Ray has revived the spiritual essence that emanates from the paintings by the great old masters and invites the viewer to contemplate.
In 1961, he became a member of the Wuyue Group (Fifth Moon Group) and participated in many exhibitions.
In 1971, he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant that enabled him to travel to Europe and the United States.
When he settled in San Francisco, in 1975, he began to work with acrylic paints.

Born in 1934 in Beijing, Chuang Che comes from a family of scholars. His father was a well-known calligrapher and curator of the Palace Museum in Beijing. Traditional Chinese painting has remained an inexhaustible source of inspiration throughout Chuang Che’s career.

Chuang Che studied at the Department of Fine Arts at the Taiwan Provincial Normal University. In 1958, he joined the Wuyue Group (Fifth Moon Group), in which he played a major role. In 1966, he received an endowment from the Rockefeller Foundation that enabled him to make his first trip to the United States, where is still lives today.

Chuang Che invented the Third Way, a unique artistic concept that sought to merge Asian and Western aesthetics.

Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) was born in Bologna, Italy, where he lived until his death. By 1920, Morandi had established the small-scale depictions of still lifes and landscapes that he would pursue throughout his oeuvre, and that were associated with no other school or style but his own. Monographic exhibitions have been held at Tate Modern, London, which traveled to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2001–2002); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which traveled to the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy (both 2008); Museo d’Arte Città di Lugano, Switzerland (2012); BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2013); Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2019); and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2020). His work is held in prominent public collections worldwide.

Michaël Borremans (b. 1963, Geraardsbergen, Belgium) has gained international recognition over the last twenty years for an innovative approach to painting. Combining technical mastery with subject matter that defies straightforward interpretation, his charged canvases address universal themes with a specifically contemporary relevance. Recent monographic exhibitions have been held at prominent institutions such as the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2020); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2020); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (2015); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2014); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2014), Dallas Museum of Art (2015); and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2014); among others. Work by the artist is held in public collections worldwide. 

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958, Mortsel, Belgium) is known for his distinctive paintings that demonstrate images’ power to simultaneously communicate and withhold. Based on preexisting imagery culled from various sources, and rendered in muted, hazy palettes, his large-scale canvases undermine and reinvent traditional notions of monumentality through their insistence on ambiguity. A solo exhibition of Tuymans’s work, La Pelle, was held at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, in 2019. Major international surveys have been organized by the Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha (2015); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009–2011); Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels (2009); and Tate, London (2004). His work is held in public collections worldwide.

Yokomizo was born in Tokyo, and currently lives and works in Kyoto.
Her unique installation work has been shown in many galleries and museums including the Museum of modern art, Saitama, Saitama(2000), Museume of Comtemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo(2002), Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York(2002), Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York(2002), Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba(2003). Yokomizo won a scholarship from the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2001 and the same year participated in a residency program of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NYC. Other residency programs included the Taipei Artist Village in 2003 and the Aomori Art Contemporary Art Center in 2004. She won a fellowship from the International Research Center for The Arts in Kyoto in 2005.

Hsu Yunghsu was born in Kaohsiung in 1955.
Treating the body as a creative tool, the artist devotes himself entirely to the field of ceramic art. He emphasizes the dialogue between the body and his artworks, and confronts the clay by integrating the subject with the body. His artworks are created on the basis of the interplay between the world and his perception as well as tactile and algesic senses within the clay-based structure. To create the purest and finest ceramic artworks, the artist not only adopted complex and painstaking procedures of production, but also exercised his superior skill in kilning. Through the constant process of deconstruction and reconstruction, he successfully transformed the heavy clay into delicate lines and shapes.