Born in 1952, Chu graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1976, and received diplomas from L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts De Paris in 1983, and L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts-Decoratifs De Paris in 1984. He is currently the director of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. Chu is also the board member of the Lee Chun-shan Modern Painting Foundation. Chu is an artist whose practices focus on abstract painting and plays an important role in Taiwan contemporary art scene. He has exhibited internationally both in solo and joint exhibitions. As one of the key figures in the art scene, art education and arts administration in Taiwan, Chu’s endeavors have made great influences on higher education and international exchange.

Jam Wu

Born in 1979 in Tainan, Taiwan
Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan

Jam Wu explores the relationship between imagery and medium. Employing elements such as paper cutting, video, and space, his artistic practice involves notions of culture and community through a profound participatory approach in local projects and publications. He dedicates his focus to the individual’s universal pursuit of the creative self, while emphasizing the uniqueness of each culture and individual. His spiritual motivation lies in his poetic and primitive yearnings. In his work, imagery, allegory, and concept manifest themselves not as aesthetic contemplation, but as spiritual comfort immersed in life.

Kong Chun Hei

Born in 1987 in Hong Kong
Now lives and works in Hong Kong

With a bachelor’s degree from the fine arts department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Kong Chun Hei has cultivated an artistic practice galvanized by his keen, unperturbed sense of observation. His work examines everyday objects and their inherent forms, while exposing varying nuances in the relationship between the object and the context where it is found. This has underpinned his practice which stretches intuitively across painting, installation, and video in an artistic exploration propelled by the artist’s inquisitive nature.

Chiu Chen Hung was born in 1983 in Hualien, Taiwan. In 2008, he completed the graduate program in plastic arts at the National Taiwan University of Arts. His works are primarily presented in the framework of installation and sculpture. Like conducting an archeological expedition, he is especially proficient in excavating remaining outlines and imprints from bygone time and space. Through his practice of abstraction and reinterpreting both designed and rationalized logics, he vividly reshapes these existed objects and thus develop a vast memory restoration.

Katarína Janečková Walshe was born in 1988 in Bratislava, Slovakia. From 2009 to 2013, she pursued her education and received an MA in Painting from the Academy of Fine Art in Bratislava with her first solo show in 2009. She currently resides in Corpus Christi, Texas as well as New York. Inspired by the roles of masculinity and femininity, the wide availability of sexual content, and challenging the male gaze through sexual liberation, Janečková Walshe uses playful colors and characters to direct and discover the role of sexuality in the modern world. Cartoonish bears depict the virility of men while beautiful women in Rococo colors play and pose for the audience, allowing viewers to reflect on their own preconceived notions of gender roles and identity.

1978     Born in in Arcata, CA, USA

2000     University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A. Painting SOLO SHOWS

2003     Tyler School of Art, Temple University, M.F.A. Painting

2008     Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Now living and working in Brooklyn, NY.

Mao Yo-Wen is currently working and living in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts Department of Painting and Calligraphy Arts and now studying in Graduate School of Fine Arts in National Taiwan University of Arts. In Mao’s work, he is good at reconstruct everything that already been define by human being with imagination. In his recent work, he is focus on research and collect people, events, medium or places that were forgotten or neglected, which hidden in the history or in the visible layers. He brought up the questions and combine personal sensation and rational thinking with field study, probing, and physical contact.

Thao Nguyen Phan is a Ho Chi Minh City-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses video, painting and installation. Drawing from literature, philosophy and daily life, Phan observes ambiguous issues in social conventions and history. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Vietnam and internationally including Tate St Ives, Cornwall; Chisenhale Gallery, London; WIELS, Brussels; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; Lyon Biennial; and Sharjah Biennial, among others. She has been invited to the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Cecilia Alemani. In 2023, she will exhibit in the Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, curated by Lucia Aspesi and Fiammetta Griccioli.

Chulayarnnon Siriphol (b.1986, Bangkok, TH)
Chulayarnnon Siriphol works between the role of a filmmaker and an artist, using video as a medium. His works range from experimental film to video installation which are in–between personal and social memory, documentary and fiction, reality and supernatural. In 2018, he premiered ‘Planetarium’ at the Cannes Film Festival as part of ’10 Years Thailand’. Siriphol just had his work presented at the 8th edition of Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan in 2021.

Alex Face (b.1981, Chachoengsao, TH)
A skilled painter and sculptor, Alex Face is one of the forefront street artists of Asia, he has brought his iconic three-eyed child in a ragged animal suit inspired by his daughter to the public sphere of major cities across the world expressing his concerns over the becoming society. This year marks the 20th years anniversary of Alex Face’s artistic career.