SUNG-CHIH CHEN
© 2022 by SUNG-CHIH CHEN.
Sung-Chih CHEN
1978 born in Taiwan, lives and works in Taichung, Taipei, Taiwan
Education Background
2005 M.F.A., Institute of Plastic Art, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan
2002 B.F.A., Department of Visual Communication Design, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Professional Career
2019 Artists-in-residence Program, Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama, Japan
2015 Artists-in-residence Program, ISCP, New York, USA
2014 Artists-in-residence Program, MMCA Goyang Art Studio, Goyang, Korea
2007 Artists-in-residence Program, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
2005 Artists-in-residence Program, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2004 Artists-in-residence Program, Visiting Arts London, London, UK
Artists-in-residence Program, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
Awards
2013 Grand Prize, Spirit of Travel–Espace Louis Vuitton Taipei Audition, Taiwan
2012 First Prize, 35 Visual Artist Support, Taiwan
The 12th Visual Arts Prize of LI Chun-Shan Foundation, Taiwan
2008 Honorable Mention, Taipei Arts Awards, Taiwan
2005 Top 7 of Visual Arts, The 3rd Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan
2003 Honorable Mention, Taipei Arts Awards, Taiwan
2002 S.A.N Art Creativity Sponsored Reward of S.A.N Foundation, Taiwan
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Special Projects, Freedom Men Art Apartments, Taichung, Taiwan
2019 Invisible Line, Chiayi Cultural and Creative Industries Park, Chiayi, Taiwan
2018 A Fork in the Road, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Rambling Sentence, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, China
2017 Comparative - Deep - Hues, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016 Sung-Chih Chen Works 2005-2006, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Sung-Chih Chen, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Upside Down, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Time After Time, Gallery 456, New York, USA
2014 Another Place, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Undercover, Espace Louis Vuitton, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Sung-Chih Chen 2012, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Delicate Sensibilities, Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Unrelated Accident, Black & White Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2010 Polar Region, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
My Dear Wrinkle, Ever Harvest Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Untitled, The Quan Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2008 You to Be, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Sung-Chih Chen Solo Exhibition 2008, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Once Upon a Time, Cité Internationale des Arts Gallery, Paris, France
2006 The Sunday Morning, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Domestic Play and Quotidian Poetry, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
2005 Vol.7, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 Then …You See Me Like That, Sin Pin Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The Eighth Day, Nell’s Home, Taichung, Taiwan
2003 Dropping Body Temperature to 37.5℃, Life Science Library, Taipei, Taiwan
Artificiality, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2001 Wa Ha Ha, Want Space, Taichung, Taiwan
Search…, Showplace, Taichung, Taiwan
Group Exhibitions
2022 On Paper, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Uncertain Outlines, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Texo, Yiri Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Taipei 2021, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Places of Being: Space and Materiality in Taiwan's Avant-Garde Art, 1980-2021,
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Art Future, Grand Hyatt Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Dawn Light: Project Fulfill in Focus, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Pseudo Site, National Chiao Tung University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Symbiosis Relationship, Treasue Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Now is the Time: Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition 2019, Silk Factory, Wuzhen, China
Sui Generis: Jing-Pai of Taiwan, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Existence ‧ Sense，H.R.H. Princess Sirindhorn Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Organism, International Hall, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Existence ‧ Sense，Tunghai University Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
AAM Arts Festival, Art & Arch Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
2017 As Usual–As Unusual, Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse, Chiayi, Taiwan
Mandala of Ink Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
Pyeongchang Biennial, Gangneung Green City Experience Center, Gangneung, South Korea
2016 Shin Leh Yuan 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Transformations: Contemporary Media and Manifestations, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015 Dreams–Habitations, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Stopping the Sun in its Course, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
ISCP Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
Light to the Homecoming, Treasue Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 The Art of Time Exhibition, Bellavita Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Forest, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Fair Tokyo, Toyko international Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Mind on Forms, Mobile Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
Transforming, Suzhou Yucun Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Asia Cruise, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Mental–Logue / Monster–Logue, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Soft Power: The Intangible Indicator, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Daily Collection of Abstract Play, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
2012 The 12th Visual Arts Prize of Li Chun-Shan Foundation, NCKU Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Looking for 101, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 A Pace, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
2011 Very Fun Park 2011, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Flourishing and Flowing, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Flourishing and Flowing, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
T-ART Taichung Art Fair, Evergreen Hotel, Taichung, Taiwan
Freshmen Welcome Party, The Stock 20 , Taichung, Taiwan
2010 Time Unfrozen, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 One Day One Decade, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
Contemporary Value: A Processing History, Ever Harvest Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Taipei Arts Award, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Sweeties, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The Light Enters You—ISSEY MIYAKE x Young Taiwanese Artists, ISSEY MIYAKE, Taichung
Local Viewpoint: Made in Taiwan, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Resident Artist's Group Show, 435 International Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
M.O.T. Salon, Museum of Tomorrow, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Transformation in Perception, Modern Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2006 CO6 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta , Taichung City Cultural Hall, Taichung, Taiwan
Transit: City Passenger, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
Artist Exposition, Huashan Art District, Taipei, Taiwan
Ubiquitous, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
0~10~∞, Art Center T.N.N.U.A & The Stock 20, Tainan/ Taichung, Taiwan
City Mambo, SLY Art Space & Stone Villa Gallery, Taipei/ Sydney, Taiwan/ Australia
Noise—Video Art Festival, Warner Village Cinema - Xin Yi, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 City: Flying Hearts, Bee TV, Taipei, Taiwan
Skylight: Open the New Page..., Eslite bookstore, Taichung, Taiwan
Best of 2004 Taishin Arts Award Exhibition, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi A9, Taipei, Taiwan
Shin Leh Yuan vs. Sin Pin Group Exhibition, Sin Pin Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2004 Drawing: Selected Exhibition of Sketch, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
One More Glance, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
CO4 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Huashan Art District, Taipei, Taiwan
Out of Infinity: T.N.C.A Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts(91), The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
The 6th Term Group Exhibition of S.L.Y, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2003 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival 2003, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Asynchronism in Local, Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse, Chiayi, Taiwan
Taipei Arts Award, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Life Science Library Group Show, Life Science Library, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 CO2 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Huashan Art District, Taipei, Taiwan
You Can Use Me, Tainan National University of The Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
Romantic Revolution of The Stock 20, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
Super Deluxe Display, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 New Appearance of Chairs, Taichung City Cultural Hall, Taichung, Taiwan
2001 Taiwan–Japan International Haulm Culture Exhibition, Nantou, Taiwan
Floating Masculinity Group exhibition, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Railway Art Festival Exhibition, Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse, Chiayi, Taiwan
Want Space Group Exhibition, Taichung Port Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
Stopover, The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
Body Party, Showplace, Taichung, Taiwan
2000 Group Exhibition in Rain Season, Juming Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The Light Installation Exhibition, Chingshuei, Taichung, Taiwan
1999 International Paper Art Exhibition 1999, Chungshi Paper Factory, Yilan, Taiwan
Collections
2000-2022 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Art Bank Taiwan, Taichung Museum of Art
Juming Museum, Private collection
Grants
2021 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2021-2 Fellowship
2018 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2018-1 Fellowship
2016 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2016-2 Fellowship
2016 Taipei City Government Department of Culture Affairs 2016-1 Fellowship
2012 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2012-1 Fellowship
Taipei City Government Department of Culture Affairs 2012-1 Fellowship
2008 Taipei City Government Department of Culture Affairs 2008-2 Fellowship
2006 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2006-2 Fellowship
2005 National Cultural and Arts Foundation 2005-1 Fellowship
Reviews
Nai-Ming Cheng, “Destruction is the Best Path Towards Fulfillment”, Cans Asia Art News, Issue 161
Chih-Yi Wang, “The Smeared Eraser”, LEAP Magazine, Issue 47
Li Cheng, “People Will Be Disrupted, But Not Machines—Sung-Chih Chen ‘Rambling Sentence’”, Understand Media, May. 1. 2018
Mei-Cheng Lee, “Recalling Memories on a Sensory Journey—Sung-Chih Chen ‘Comparative - Deep - Hues’”, Comparative - Deep - Hues—Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition Catalogue
Yen-Ying Huang, “Comparative Grey Depths”, Comparative - Deep - Hues—Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition Catalogue
Chia-Feng Hsu, “‘Comparative - Deep - Hues’ Sung-Chih Chen Solo Exhibition”, Taishin Arts Award–Art Talk
Ching-Jung Huang, “Interview with Sung-Chih Chen ‘Comparative - Deep - Hues’”, ArtTaiwan Media, November. 24. 2017
Pin-Hua Wang, “Where Materialness Dwells—The Reduction by Sung-Chih Chen”, Upside Down—Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition Catalogue
Sean Wang, “Upside Down. It Is Where Art Resides”, Upside Down—Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition Catalogue
Wei-Tzu Chuang, “Expression of Daily Perceptual Experience: Objects and Art in Sung-Chih Chen’s Works”, The Artist Magazine, Issue 492
I-Hsiu Lin, “Upside Down—Sung-Chih Chen”, Artco Magazine, Issue 283
Ping Lin, “Does Taiwanese ‘Spatial Installation’ Art Exist?—From the Story of Sung-Chih Chen”, Taishin Arts Award–Art Talk
I-An Lu, “Sweet, Sweet Home, Read from the Ruins”, Yiri Good Paper Vol. 5
Hsuan-Cheng Chen and Cheng-Chi Cheng, “The Poetics of Little Things: Sung-Chih Chen’s ‘Minor’ Aesthetics and the Uncertainty of Corporeal Characteristics”, Art Critique of Taiwan, Issue 62, 2015
Hsin-Tien Li, “Dance of Appropriateness—Sung-Chih Chen and Yen-Fang Yu”, Art Plus Taiwan, 2015.03
Wen-Hung Tsao, “Searching for Your Another Place”, Milk X, 2015.02
Yin-Hui Wu, “Sung-Chih Chen’s Another Place—Sailing, Making Life Lighter”, December 10, 2014 China Times News
Dana Ter, “Imperfect Art”, Taipei Times, December. 14. 2014
Ming-Hsueh Li, “Dotted Line of Middle Boundary: ‘Another Place’ of Sung-Chih Chen”, Taishin Arts Award–Art Talk
Chun-Hsien Li, “From Chewing Gum, Lak-tshat to LV—‘Dark Energy’ Tour of Artist Sung-Chih Chen”, Taishin Arts Award–Art Talk
Fu-Chin Chiang, “Old Time Memories in Wood Texture Lines”, Marie Claire Taiwan, Issue 252
Ying-Hua Chang, “Microscopic Experience of Sung-Chih Chen”, Men’s Uno, Issue 170
I-Hsi Huang, “Destination of Secret Customization: Sung-Chih Chen’s Life Microcosm of Extreme Sloppiness and Concentration”, Art Collection + Design Magazine, 2013.06
Shu-Yin Kuo, “Trip of Wood Pieces to Men’s World”, Ming Pao Weekly, Issue 168
Hung-Wen Tsao, “Invisible Time–Accumulated Beauty”, Milk X, 2013.05
I-An Lu, “Waste Wood Pieces into Boutiques”, Business Weekly, Issue 1327
Fu-Min Yen, “Life Journey of A Wood Board”, United Daily News C5, April. 18. 2013
Tzu-Chin Kao, “Rooms of Rhizome—On the Destruction, Smell and Memory in Sung-Chih Chen’s Artworks”, Sung-Chih Chen’s Works 2002-2012
Juin Shieh, “The Delicacy of Collage ‘Polar Region—Sung-Chih Chen Solo Exhibition’ Artists Talk Records”, Sung-Chih Chen’s Works 2002-2012
I-Chuan Ho, “Introspective Body: Memories of ‘Your Being’ in the Room—On Installation Creation of Sung-Chih Chen”, Sung-Chih Chen’s Works 2002-2012
Hsun-Wei Hsu, “A Journey of Climbing Up—The Profound Happiness and Meaning”, Sung-Chih Chen’s Works 2002-2012
Yin-Hui Wu, “Scrap Landscape: Delicate Sensibilities by Sung-Chih Chen”, China Times News A14, June. 24. 2012
Sheng-Hong Wang, “From Minimal, Concept to Site-specific Installation”, Artitude Magazine, Issue 9, 2010
I-Chuan Ho, “Inside of the Body: An Inorganic Space Change to an Organic Field–by CHEN Sung-Chih Solo Exhibition ‘Then …You See Me Like That’”, 2010.01
I-Chuan Ho, “Between inside and outside: Field and View of the Installation Art–by CHEN Sung-Chih Solo Exhibition "You to Be"”, 2009.06
Yin-Hui Wu, “Turning Ugliness into Art: The Beauty of Fragmentation Exhibited by Sung-Chih Chen”, China Times News A14, July. 26. 2008
Shih-Kai Liu, “Accumulating Life in Life—Comment on the Exhibition of Sung-Chih Chen’s ‘You to Be’ in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei”, The Artist Magazine, Issue 401, 2008
Chia-Hsuan Wu, “Bringing the Feeling of Existence to Light”, Artco Magazine, Issue 191, 2008
Ching-Wen Chang, “Appreciating through Delicate Perception” The Artist Magazine, Issue 399, 2008
Yi-Ning Shen, “All the Happiness in the Garden Starts from ‘You’”/The Special Article in Sung-Chih
Chen’s Solo Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2008
Hai-Ming Huang, “Desolation of Materials and Spirit”, Taishin Art Review–Visual Arts 2007 Edition, 2007
Shih-Kai Liu, “Vaporization—A Kind of Primary Teaching Materials Related to State/Discussion on CO6 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta”, 2006
Yu-Sheng Lin, “Poetry is Outnumbered by Chanters of Poetry—Comment on ‘Domestic Play and Quotidian Poetry’”, ArtTop Magazine, Issue 29, 2006
Chiung-Ju Huang, “A Beeline Does Not Exist—Comment on ‘Domestic Play and Quotidian Poetry’ in Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition”, Artco Magazine, Issue 162, 2006
Yu-Ling Lee, “Between Poetry and Play—In Addition to Life, Where Does Art Exist in? - Comment on ‘Domestic Play and Quotidian Poetry’ in Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition”, Artco Magazine, Issue 162, 2006
Meng-Chin Liu, “The Zeroing and Losing Direction of Perceptual Energy”, The Special Article in Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition
Yi-An Lu, “The Extraordinary in the Ordinary”, Look! The Artists: 2004 Taishin Arts Award–Top 7 of Visual Arts, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, 2006
Szu-Hsien Lee, “Talent for Reading Life—Brief Comment on ‘Vol.7—Chen Sung-Chih Solo Exhibition’”, Taishin Art Review–Visual Arts 2007 Edition, 2007
Wei Yu, “Writing the Works of Sung-Chih Chen (or Those Rooms Manipulated by Him)”, The Special Article in Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition Catalogue, 2005
Pao-Ping Huang, “Then …You See Me Like That—Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition–The 3rd Taishin Arts Award”, Mingshen News A12, April. 2. 2005
Tai-Sung Chen, “The 3rd Taishin Arts Award–Top 7 of Visual Arts Awards–the Reasons for Being Selected as the Finalists”, Artco Magazine, Issue 151, 2005
Tzu-Chieh Chien, “Then …You See Me Like That—Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition”, Artco Magazine, Issue 151, 2005
Chen-Ching Ku, “Fantasy and Materials: Introduction to Invitation of Works of CO4 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta”
Hsun-Wei Hsu, “Searching, in and out of Life…”/The 7th Special Graduation Collection of Tainan National University of the Arts–Special Collection of Sung-Chih Chen’s Works, 2004
Tien-Fu Chen, “Are You in the Right Position?” —Writing after “Sung-Chih Chen: Then …You See Me Like That”, 2003
Chuan-Li Yu, “Experiencing the Past, Moving towards the Future—Dancing in the Dark”, Taiwan Contemporary Art Series (Politics/ Power), 2003
Tien-Fu Chen, “Then …You See Me Like That”/ The Special Article in Sung-Chih Chen’s Solo Exhibition”, 2003
Hsiao-Yen Huang, “Please Remember! It Is the 21st Century Now.”, Artco Magazine, Issue 131, 2003
Hsiang-Chun Chen, “The New Gender Lurking in Anxiety and Consciousness”, Artco Magazine, Issue 112, 2001
Pei-Yi Huang, “Wa Ha Ha” the Four “Wa Ha Ha” Exhibited in the Exhibition of Sung-Chih Chen’s New Works, Want News, 2001
Min-Chen Chiang, “Making a Tour or Going Exiled?” A Report on 'Group Exhibition of Want Space', The Artist Magazine, Issue 319, 2001
Cheng-Lin Chang, “Casual Meetings in Space: Conversations with Several Pieces of Works in the Exhibition of 'Stopover'”, Want News Issue 7, 2001
Ching-Ling Wang, “Honey-like Whispers of the Childhood—A Report on Sung-Chih Chen’s ‘Search…’ Exhibited in the Premiere of His Creations”, 2001
Hsun-Wei Hsu, “Aside from ‘Search…’” —The Premiere of Sung-Chih Chen’s Creations”, The Artist Magazine, Issue 310, 2001