Wu Chuan-Lun born in Tainan, Taiwan. The ever-going changes, compromises and contradictions informing the relations between nature and civilization, ecology and politics as well as materials and the digital have formed the general background of Wu Chuan-Lun’s art practice. He employs a diverse range of media, such as computer-generated imagery, photography, drawing, found objects and porcelain, to create conceptual and research-based installations. His recent work often uses the process of collecting/gathering as a point of departure to explore the identity and meaning of the collected/gathered objects, from which he gradually unravels the underlying, entangled historical and social context. Wu has won the selected Prize of “Taipei Arts Award” (2007), selected prize of “Kaohsiung Arts Award” (2011) and nominated for the Finalist for Taishin Arts Award (2020). His works have been shown at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Gwangju Museum of Art, Rockbund Art Museum, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and have been featured in the 2014 Taipei Biennial—The Great Acceleration. His work collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taipei Fine Art Museum. In recent years, he has conducted artist residencies with final presentations of the creative results in Seoul, Berlin and Peru. Wu currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Tainan, Taiwan.
educations & residencies/
2021 Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2021 Dawn Artist Village, Taitung, Taiwan
2017 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (MOC Overseas Residency Project)
2016 OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Kuandu Residency Program)
2015 MFA, Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan
2007 BFA, Department of Fine Art, Tung Hai University, Taiwan
solo exhibitions/
2019 No Country for Canine, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Grafrath: A Schäferhund Story, LAGE EGAL [IN THE RACK ROOM], Berlin, Germany
2017 AF II, Ho-Yo Space, Tainan, Taiwan
Schäferhund, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 You Will Not Be Wasted, NHUE Art Space, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2013 Cabinet of Rendering, Art Taipei - MIT：Young Artist Discovery, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 KiSS... and SAVE, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
selected group exhibitions/
2020 Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2020 New Relics I: Crossing Over, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheist Theist, Waley Art, Taipei, Taiwan
An Opera For Animals, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Li Yuan-chia and Homages To, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 The Fourth Age of Man - Contemporary Art in Jinguashi, Gold Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
Art-eology Zoo, Juming Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
2017 2017 Cre8tive Report, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016 Animals and Us, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
As Small As the Universe, Galerie Nichido Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Sailing In The Dark Cave - The Historia Naturalis of Sino Art, Lin&Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Life between Delight and Discomfort, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju. Korea
Space In Mind - Animatrix Bienniale 2015-2016, Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai, China
The Essence of Things, Aura Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Incommensurable - Formosa Sculpture Biennial 2015, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung. Taiwan
Dreams‧Habitations - NTMoFA Young Artist Collection Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2014 The Spine of Spectrum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei Biennial 2014 - The Great Acceleration, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The Scene of Nature: East and West, Art 8, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Disco‧Very, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Words, 182 Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
2011 Petject, Fotoaura, Tainan, Taiwan
High Difficulty Fault, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohisung, Taiwan
2007 2007 Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
selected awards & honors/
2021 Winner, Artist in Residency Special Prizes – Labverde (Brazil), 15th Arte Laguna Prize, Cultural Association MoCA, Italy
2020 Finalist, 18th Taishin Arts Awards, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture (No Country For Canine)
2011 Selected Prize, Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
2007 Selected Prize, Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
collections/
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
Art Bank, Taichung, Taiwan
selected publications/
2020 Yao-Jui Chung, Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial, Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
2020 Chu Feng-Yi, Relocating Divinity, Taiepi: Elephant White
2019 Wu Chuan Lun - No Country for Canine, text by CHEN Kuan-Yu, CHU Feng-Yi, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Yao-Jui Chung, Shauba Chang, interview by Hai Lin, PHOTO-LOGUES Ⅱ, Taipei: Garden City
2016 Lim Jong-Young, Jo Hsiao, Life between Delight and Discomfort, Gwangju: Gwangju Museum of Art
2015 Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei Biennial 2014 - The Great Acceleration, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
selected projects ＆ events/
2021 Where The Wild Things Are - Posthumanism (co-host with Ko-Fan Lin), Royal Institute of Art, Sweden (online)
2018 Off - Site Project 3: Micro-Historical in Peru, Lima and Cusco, Peru
2015-2017 Spine Project Vol. 96-99, Parkett Magazine, New York, USA