Wei Ting Chen 

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Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, Taiwan. He spent his childhood on cartooning, and he liked to draw with poem. In Fu Jen University, he majored in Chinese Literature and started to write poems. He read Roland L. Bachmann's concept of fragment. Roland's work is composed of fragments. When readers read his works, they need to put together his thoughts. For Chen, he thinks that the writing is a slice of life, and writing poems has become another way of making a drawing.

 

His works are mostly paintings with acrylic and oil pastel, often accompanied by poems that correspond to the visual parts and provide a hint. He always thinks that his works are showing the differences between children and adults. He also works with different medias, such as video art, performance, and sculpture. Those year he exhibited overseas such as New York, Beijing, Hongkong, Japan and so on. Some works can be found in the collection of Lih-pao Cultural Arts Foundation. 

 

In order to seek for more opportunities for exchange with artists and new projects, he currently lives and works in Tokyo.

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Solo Exhibition

2022  「Paradise」in Villazan Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2021  「I don’t want to change You」in Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong

          「Falling Rain」 in Jia Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

          「I Saw You Before」 in GR Gallery, New York, American

2019  「An Apple」 in Lei Xiang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2018  「Partial Men」 in Songshan cultural park, Taipei, Taiwan

          「events and mine」in Park Lane, Taichung, Taiwan

2017  「Part of Us」in Pasadena Italia House, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

          「Talking to Nobody」in Pasadena Bakery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2015  「Wandering Dream」in Dear Deer Gallery Café, Taipei, Taiwan

          「Long Dream」in Huashan1914 Creative Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Group Exhibition

2022 「Exodus」, K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong

         「Break in Emergency 3」, 4BYSIX, London, England

         「Graduation Works Exhibition 2022」, The University Art Museum, Japan

2021 「Doll House」, Line Gallery, Beijing, China

         「Satellite Village」, Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong

         「De’Construction」, Toride Museum，Japan

         「Fresh」, Padre Gallery，New York, American

2020  「Art Kyoto」, Kyoto National Museum，Kyoto，Japan

         「We burned, we lost and we still run as child」, Jxjbooks Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

         「Beijing Contemporary Art Expo 2020」, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China

2019 「POPEYE 90thAnniversary exhibition」, Joy city, Beijing, China

         「Restart the game」, Joy city, Beijing, China

2018 「Art Taipei 2018」,TWTC,Taipei, Taiwan

         「Art Formosa」, Eslite hotel, Taipei, Taiwan

         「Infinity Japan Contemporary Art Show」, Royal-Nikko Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan

         「Taipei International Book Exhibition」, TWTC,Taipei, Taiwan

2017 「Art Taipei 2017」,TWTC,Taipei, Taiwan

         「Daily Float 」, diida ART BOX, Taipei, Taiwan

         「Nuit Blanche」, Taipei, Taiwan

         「Lin Yen Liang and Chen Wei Ting exhibition-home 」, diida ART BOX, Taipei, Taiwan

         「Opening‧Into the Future」,Hsinchu 241 art space,Hsinchu, Taiwan

2016 「2016 Taiwan Annual」,Taiwan Expo parkExpo Dome, Taipei, Taiwan

2015 「Taipei Free Art Fair」in Huashan1914 Creative Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

         「Tagboat Art Fes. 2015」, HULIC HALL, Tokyo, Japan

         「Mighty Jaxx’s Maitreya Custom Show」in Wrong ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2014 「Mainland China and Taiwan Painting Group Exhibition」,Fuzhou , China

 

Cooperation 

2021 「KUKIKODAN: Our Wishes」album illustration 

2019 「Ryoji Arai: Journey」Painting cooperation and exhibition curator 

2017 「NET」store new opening painting Activities

2016 「Christmas story」Children Album cover illustration painting 

         「Dear Bear City Festival」, Expo park, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Publication 

2016 《Room 913》

2015 《Long Dream》

 

Award

2022  Tokyo Geidai Art Fes（Judges’ Award）

          Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2022（Nominate）

          Japan Art Salon（Judges’ Award）

2021  Shibuya Awards 2021（Grand Prize / Audience Prize）

          Tokyo Geidai Art Fes（Judges’ Award）

2016  Taipei Poetry Festival（Honorable Work)

2015  Gary Baseman's exhibition in MOCA Taipei（Judges’ Award）

 

Collection

2018  Lihpao Cultural Arts Foundation, Taiwan

​          Dali Art Plaza, Taiwan

2017  Lihpao Cultural Arts Foundation, Taiwan

 

Artist-in-Residence

2018  Taichung Dali art residency

 

Media Interview

2022   The Window of Arts Magazine「New Artists in 2022」

2021   Art and Piece Cover and interview

           Art Plugged 「Chen Wei Ting: I Saw You Before」

2019   Youth Magazine 「Popeye Group Exhibition interview」

           Illustration Magazine 「Scene: Arai Ryoji Solo Exhibition《Journey》」

           Art Media Yishuzs interview「 Chen Wei Ting」

2018   Udesign「Chen Wei Ting Solo Exhibition：Partial Men 」

           China Times News「Chen Wei Ting Solo Exhibition：Partial Men 」

2017   ARTMAP cover「2017/11」

           Art Media Yishuzs 「Taiwan Artist: Chen Wei Ting」

2016   Nownews「Close and Open－Chen Wei Ting《Room913》」

2015   M'INT art news interview「Chen Wei Ting－What do you want to talk?」

           Personal Interview in the TV Show "Super Artists"「Chen Wei Ting」

           Art plus 「2015/9」

           Big issue「2015.9.1」、「2015.3.1」

           ARTMAP「2015/09」、「2015/03」