# Facts About me That May Surprise You

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Tsui Kuang-Yu、Chen Wan-Jen、Chen Ching-Yao、Huang Hai-Hsin

  • Tsui Kuang-Yu (b.1974) was born in Taipei. In 1997 he graduated from the National Institute of the Arts and has exhibited internationally since, including Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Werkleitz Biennial, Reina Sofia Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Contour Biennial, Chelsea Art Museum, Mori Museum, OK Centrum. Tsui has been trying to respond to the adaptation relationship between humans and society from a biological point of view. He also attempts to redefine or question the matrix of the institution we inhabit through different actions and experiments that ignore the accustomed norm. His repetitive body experiments accent the absurdity of the social values and reality that people have grown accustomed to.

  • Chen Wan-Jen (b. 1982) was born in Hsinchu. He received his BFA from National Taiwan University of Arts in 2005, and was the recipient of Taipei Art Awards in 2006. In 2012, he was invited to participate in the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. His works have been showcased multiple times in New York, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Tokyo and many more as well as featured in various major art museums and art galleries in Taiwan. Currently a high-profile video artist in the art scene, his works are included in the collections of White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), Hubei Museum of Art (China), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, etc.

  • Ching-Yao Chen (b. 1984) was born in Taipei. Chen received his MFA in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2006. He has won the Award of Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan and the First Prize of Taipei Arts Award. He was also the recipient of Asian Cultural Council's grant in 2009, which enabled him to conduct a residency in New York. In recent years, Chen's work centers around photography and painting. The range of his subject matter is very wide, and his work focuses on the deconstruction of power and symbols. He often appropriates symbols of popular culture, and even the portraits of politicians, and drastically recreates and transforms them into humorous, amusing images and behaviors, or simply assumes the roles of these figures himself in his work.

  • Huang Hai-Hsin (b. 1984) was born in Taipei. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2009. She was awarded Honorable Mention in the Taipei Arts Awards of 2011. In recent years, she has presented solo exhibitions at the Art Basel Hong Kong, the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany and the ISE Culture Foundation, New York. Her works have been showcased in the 12th Taipei Biennial in 2020, respectively presented at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France. Her works are included in the collections of various prestigious art institutions, among which are the White Rabbit Gallery in Australia; Leipzig in Germany; the Taipei Fine Arts museum; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the UBS Art Collection; and the Yageo Foundation.