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Nien-Ting Chen                
Curator╱Artist╱Researcher

Nien-Ting Chen(b.1990,Taipei) is an independent curator and visual artist. She holds a PhD from the Liverpool School of Art and Design(LSA, LJMU) in 2023 and Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art(GSA,GU),United Kingdom in 2018. She works across cities in both Asia and Europe, with her research, artistic practice focusing on developing strategies to bring young artists onto the world stage through the exchange and combination of resources. At the same time, she continues to actualise various interconnected art projects and curatorial works in places such as United Kingdom, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Ukraine etc., where she hopes to promote and enhance the exposure of Taiwanese arts and cultural scene within the global landscape of contemporary art. In 2023, she found The Middle Of Art Space, which is an independent art space served to the contemporary art exhibition, seminar and residency project in Taipei.

Her doctoral research delves into the objective analysis and evaluation of how the Chinese ethnic(oversea Chinese) has impacted the advancement of global contemporary art, particularly in the broad Asia since the 1990s. By reviewing the retrospective frameworks of Asian contemporary art’s development, she aims to outline the evolution of the contemporary art movement in the last three decades, while drawing links between the cultural, historical, political and geographical development of various regions in Asia.

Education

2019 - 2023
PhD Art in Liverpool School Of Art & Design at LJMU, Liverpool, UK

2016 - 2018
Master of Fine Art(MFA) in Glasgow school of Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2009 - 2014
B.F.A Department of Material Arts and Design in Tainan National University of Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

2011 - 2012
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (exchange)

Solo Exhibition

2019
“Collecting a little shimmer from life” , Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore.

2012
“Wind. Light. Blur”, Solo Exhibition, National Tsing Hua University Arts Workshop, Hsinchu, Taiwan
 

Group Exhibitions

2023
“공동의 자아_우리가 도시를 기억하는 법 Collective I : City Recall”, Seoripul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2022

“공동의 자아_우리가 도시를 기억하는 법 Collective I : City Recall”, art ground hQ, Ulsan, South Korea

2020

“Playing Hide and Seek with Myself ”, KeepInTouch Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

2019

“47M : 4D”, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Metaphorical Landscapes”, Baan Tuek Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand.


2018

“MFA Degree Show”, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK.

“Skip- Ad; Play”, Savoy Centre, Glasgow, UK.
(Glasgow International 2018)

“Fishes out of water”, Veneer Gallery, Glasgow, UK.

“Last Future”, Tramway, Glasgow, UK.

2017
“MFA Interim Show 2017 GSA Exhibitions”, Reid Building, Glasgow, UK.

2016
“A Random Piece of Someone”, Tontine Building, Glasgow, UK.

2014
“C Technology”, Group Exhibition, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1a.k.a TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall, Taipei, Taiwan.

2013
“The Dream Hatchers’ Diarrhoea ”, Group Exhibition, 1914 Creative Park Introduction, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Accumulation point”, Group Exhibition, I.B.T Gallery , Taipei, Taiwan.

2012
“Teeth’Gritting Harmony”, Group Exhibition, URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan

“That the days of youth consumption”, Group Exhibition, Min-Hwei College of Health Care Management Arts Center, Tainan, Taiwan

2011
“Taiwan Art Exhibition - graphic art series new look”, Group Exhibition, Taichung City Seaport Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan

“zero”, Group Exhibition, Eslite Cultural Space, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Curatorial Projects

2022
“2022 Taipei Sun x Site 2.0 public art project ”, Zhongshan district public areas, Taipei , Taiwan.

“Unstable Condition: Greeting From A Stranger”, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine. (Due to the Ukraine War it change to online platform)

“News from the fields: Taiwan & Ukraine International artists Exchange Exhibition”, VT Artsalon , Taipei ,Taiwan.

“An uncanny assortment of miscellaneous objects- Taiwan & Singapore International Young artists Exchange Exhibition”, starch gallery ,Singapore. (Co-operated with Singapore curator Jaxton Su )

2021

“Down the Melting Pot in George Town Festival”, Penang ,Malaysia.( because of covid-19 change to online)

“NonStopMedia festival 2021: Superposition”, Kharkiv, Ukraine (cooperation curator )(cancel because of covid-19)

“Lightnight Liverpool 2021 Play Commission: Cyber Labyrinth ”, Liverpool , UK. ( because of covid-19 change to online)

“Ta-Thai BoBa Milktea Wave Wave”, Digital Art Center Taipei(DAC), Taipei ,Taiwan.

“An uncanny assortment of miscellaneous objects- Taiwan & Singapore International Young artists Exchange Exhibition”, VT Artsalon , Taipei ,Taiwan. (Co-operated with Singapore curator Jaxton Su )

2020

“2020 Taipei Sun x Site public art project ”, Zhongshan district public areas, Taipei , Taiwan.

“Down the Melting Pot Screeing”, Fotoaura Institute of Photography/ Bansu House, Tainan/ Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

“Down the Melting Pot”, ALT Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea.

“ Lightnight Liverpool 2020 Commission: Down the Melting Pot”, the Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool, UK. ( because of covid-19 change to online)

“Down the Rabbit Hole—Video Art Screening”, The Dead Poets (I ART SEOUL), Seoul, South Korea.

2019

“Taiwan Annual (Video Art Curating Project) “ KHU-KHU-SAU” How To Do?”, Expo Dom, Curator, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Penang Georgetown Festival: The Unsettled Dust- Asia Short Film Festival ”, Hin Bus Depot, Curator, Penang ,Malaysia. (Co-operated with Singapore curator Jaxton Su )

“ Dare you do this? FFFF it! Taiwan Gangshan Dist Contemporary Art Warehouse International Exchange Program” ,Curator, Sun-wood Warehouse No.7 (日盛七號倉庫), kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Co-operated with curator Chia-Nuan Chen)

“ The Unsettled Dust- Asia Short Film Festival ”, Curator, VT Artsalon , Taipei ,Taiwan. (Co-operated with Singapore curator
Jaxton Su )

“ Dare you do this? FFFF it! – Pre-exhibition in Taipei ” Curator, VT Artsalon, Taipei ,Taiwan. (Co-operated with curator
Chia-Nuan Chen)

“The Unsettled Dust- Asia Short Film Festival”, Asian Culture Station(ACS) , Curator, Chiang Mai ,Thailand. (Co-operated with Singapore curator Jaxton Su )

2018

“The Unsettled Dust- Asia Short Film Festival”, Centre for Contemporary Arts(CCA ), Curator, Glasgow, UK. (Co-operated with Singapore curator Jaxton Su )

“Fishes out of water”, Curatorial Assistant, Veneer Gallery, Glasgow, UK

Awards

2020
The selected exhibition of 2020 Open Call for Independent Curator program, Alternative Space LOOP, South Korea.

The selected exhibition for Liverpool Lightnight 2020, UK.

2019
Nomination, The 18th Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan

2017
The cash prize, Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, New York

2013
First Award, U.S. cotton 1914 Creative Park Introduction creative Award, Taiwan

First scholarship, Tainan National University of Arts the 4th Department of Material Arts and Design term total score

2012
Adoption, The Industrial Bank of Taiwan Education Foundation sponsorship scheme, Taiwan

2011
Best Concept Award (equivalent to the first prize), The 4th Tainan National University of Arts Department of Material Arts and Design series of exhibition, Taiwan

Select Award ,Taiwan Art Exhibition - graphic art series new look Award , Taiwan

Second scholarship, Tainan National University of Arts the 4th Department of Material Arts and Design term total score

2010
Adoption, Tainan National University of Arts South campus walking trails Design Project ,Taiwan

2009
Special Activity Mayor award, Taipei Municipal Yucheng High School graduation transcripts

Experience

2016
working in Fish Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Job Title: Gallery Project and Media Specialist.

2012 - 2013
The president of the 4th Tainan National University of Arts Department of Material Arts and Design graduation exhibition Committee.

The Artists convenor of Industrial Bank of Taiwan(I.B.T.) Education Foundation Artistic activities Workshop.

2011 - 2012
The president of the 4th Tainan National University of Arts Department of Material Arts and Design series of preparatory exhibition Committee.

Admit “the National Tsing Hua University and Tainan National University of Arts Student Exchange Program” to National Tsing Hua University Department of Humanities and Social Sciences studying one year (first semester majoring in sociology and second semester majoring in philosophy).

The project manager of National Tsing Hua University Department of Chemical Engineering the 25th anneversary foundation Public Art Workshop.