STUDIO
Wei Ting Chen
Master of Art Administration
G.A.P., Tokyo University of the Arts
Master of Art Administration
University of Taipei Department of Visual Arts, Taiwan
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.
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」