Born in 1974 in Taipei, Wu Dar-Kuen got his Master of Fine Arts from Taipei University of the Arts in 2002. After graduated, he was invited to be the resident artist from several locations including NIFCA (Finland, 2002), Location One Artist Village by Yageo Tech-Art Award (New York, 2005), ISCP (New York, 2006), and Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo, 2008). Throughout the years, Dar-Kuen has applied his art practice in theatre, movies, arts teaching, arts criticism, and curating. His artworks have been shown in Taiwan, England, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Iceland, USA, Indonesia, China, Japan, Korea and Macau. He has been invited to participated in several major exhibitions include Osaka Triennial (Tokyo, 2001), Jakarta Biennial (Indonesia, 2005), and collaboration program in Taipei Biennial (Taipei, 2010).
Specialized in video installation and new media, Dar-Kuen’s works generally explore how images in world-wide-web have influenced in the human’s psychological status and the multiple possibilities of transferring time and space. The recent mass production, an interactive installation work, “Mi-Lou-Taipei” has been shown in Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), Gwangju Museum of Art (Korea), Rhode Island School of Design (USA), Guangdong Museum of Art (China) and Galeria Tap Seac (Macau). Works have become the permanent collection in Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, foundations and private collections.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 “A-Maze – Wu DarKuen interactive new media exhibition” Tap Seac Gallery, Macau
2008 “ Mi-Lou Tokyo” VT artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2008 “ Mi-Lou Tokyo” Tokyo Wonder Site , Tokyo , Japan
2005 “ Waveset Stretching” TC284, Danshuei , Taiwan
2003 “ Streamer ” The Bamboo Curtain Studio , Taipei , Taiwan
2003 “ Submerging blue pupils ” Taipei Artist Village , Taipei, Taiwan
2002 “ Walking over the light front ” fnac ,Taipei , Taiwan
2002 “ Open it ” NIFCA , Helsinki , Finland
2000 “ Media Eugenics ” Front art gallery ,Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 “Restoration”Art Gwangju 13 Gwangju, Korea
2013 “Horizon Realm Contemporary Art from Taiwan”, Tenri Cultural Institute New York,USA
2012 “Project M” hole and corner M, Gwangju, Korea
2012 “2012 Move on Asia” Alternative space LOOP、Beijing Commune、City Gallery Wellington、
FACT、ICC、ZKM
2012 “Passing Through Memory” Jinji Lake art Museum, Cuzhou, China
2011 “In Bliss, 2011 TAIPEI WORLD DESIGN EXPO 》Songshan Cultural and Creative
Park,Taipei,Taiwan
2011“100 Gender Photographs” Fisherman's Wharf Art Space,Tamsui,Taiwan
2011 “Move on Asia Travelling Exhibition in Europe” Casa Asia , Madrid/ Barcelona and
LABoral, Gijon, Spain
2010 “Stand-In Techniques”- New Taiwanese video Style , 456 gallery, NewYork, USA
2010 “ 7th Busan International Video Art Festival ” Space Bandee , Busan , Korea
2010 “ Sensory Topology–Bodily Perception of Taiwan Contemporary Art ” Guandong Museum
of art , Guandong ,China
2010 “ YES!TAIWAN–2010 Taiwan Biennial ” Taiwan Museum of Fine arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2010 “ Pixilerations 2010 ” FirstWorks,Rhode Island , USA
2010 “ 2010 Taipei Biennial ” Taipei Fine arts Museum ,Taipei , Taiwan
2010 “ The 15th Anniversary of Bamboo Curtain Studio ” Bamboo Curtain Studio ,Taipei, Taiwan
2010 “Art Gwangu 2010” DNA ( Digitalart Network Of Asia ) 2nd DIGIFESTA ,Gwangju, Korea
2010 “ Local to Local ” Baekje Hospital, Busan , Korea
2010 “ The ramblers in Pearville ” Openspace Bae , Busan , Korea
2010 “ CITY CRACK ” MOT/ARTS,Taipei, Taiwan
2010 “ Digifesata ” Gwangju Biennial Hall, Gwangju Museum , Korea
2010 “ The bu2tterfly effect ” He Xiangning art Museum , Shenzhen , China
2010 “ Grand Opening “ Taipei Contemporary Art Center , Taipei , Taiwan
2010 “ Move On Asia ” Single channel Video Art Festival Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
2009 “ Recurrence Exhibition of Young Artists from Cross-Strait Regions” AFA ,Beijing , China
2009 “ Inter-city ” Busan Museum of Art (BMA) ,Busan , Korea
2009 “ Contemporary Value – A Processing History ” Ever Harvest Art Gallery, Taipei , Taiwan
2009 “ Move On Asia 2009 ” Single channel Video Art Festival Gallery LOOP Seoul , Korea
2008 “ HOME–2008 Taiwan Biennial ” Taiwan Museum of Fine arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2008 “ Sensory Topology–Bodily Perception of Taiwan Contemporary Art” , Taiwan
Gwangju Museum , Korea
2008 “ Art Trash ” In Art Gallery,Tainan, Taiwan
2008 “ Beyond a dialogue ” Taiwan Museum of Fine arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2008 “ Beyond a dialogue ” Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei , Taiwan
2008 “ Illusion Theater ” Blue dot Aisa,Seoul, Korea
2007 “ 2007 Art in TaeGu ” Art In TaeGu Foundation, TaeGu , Korea
2007 “ Very Funny Park II ” Contemporary Arts Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei , Taiwan
2007 “ 1ad Contemporary INK Biennale ” Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts,Taipei, Taiwan
2007 “ From here to there ” Council Cultural Affairs ,VTartsalon,Taipei, Taiwan
2007 “ 700IS film festival ” The Culture Centre of Fljotsdalsherad,Egilsstaeir ,Iceland
2006 “ Honey, I understand you, but… ” Safe-T gallery, New York , USA
2006 “ Poll art fair 2006 ” Frere independent, New York , USA
2006 “ Calendar screen show ” art in general, New York , USA
2006 “ 1ad Contemporary INK Biennale --Fashion/Water/Ink ” VTartsalon ,Taipei, Taiwan
2006 “ The 5ad Artist's Festival ” Hwa Shan Art District , Taipei , Taiwan
2006 “ Bridge of Dreams” Dumbo art under thebridge Festival, New York , USA
2006 “ Final Fantasy ” Mission gallary, Wallison,UK
2005 “ 2005 CP Biennlal ” Djakarta, Indonesia
2005 “ IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 III ” Location one, New York,USA
2005 “ 2005 Noisy arts Festival ” Taipei, Taiwan
2005 “ 2005 Kuan Du Flower arts Festival ” Taipei University of the Arts,Taipei, Taiwan
2005 “ Utopia of Togetherness ” The 2nd Taipei Public Art Festival,Taipei, Taiwan
2004 “ Fire plane ” Tai-shun Performance Group, Hwa Shan Art District , Taipei, Taiwan
2004 “ The Whimsical and the Fantastic ” TNNUA,Contemporary Art Center,Tainan, Taiwan
2004 “ The 3ad Artist's Festival ” Hwa Shan Art District , Taipei , Taiwan
2004 “ Scientific and technological halo ” 2004 Lantern fair of Taiwan , Special zone of Taipei county government, Banciao City ,Taiwan
2004 “ The Tile Project, Destination: The World ” East﹣West Gallery , Romanian Cultural Institute Trans Cultural Exchange Organization ,New York,USA
2004 “ Spellbound Aura-The New Vision of Chinese Photography ” MOCA Taipei , Taiwan
2003 “ Chi、Zhan、Shi→The New Wave of Art in Taiwan ” Main Trend Gallery, Taipei , Taiwan
2003 “ 64 Discourses on Love in the SARS ” IT Park Gallery, Taipei , Taiwan
2003 “ Multiple Lab ” Taipei Artist Village , Taipei , Taiwan
2003 “ 2003 Floral imaginational Kuan-Du Flower arts Festival ” Taipei University of the Arts,Taipei, Taiwan
2003 “ Super King-Kung ” crown art center, Taipei , Taiwan
2003 “ RANDOM-IZE FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL” Maloma , Sweden
2003 “ RANDOM-IZE Taipei ” eslite vision , Taipei, Taiwan
2003 “ King-Kung touch Bobbie ” stock 20 gallery , Taichung, Taiwan
2002 “ The angle within reality and void ” Naomi, Taipei , Taiwan
2002 “ Penetration of the in-Gravity ” Shin Kong Mitsukoshi , Tainan, Taiwan
2002 “ IMAGE-Beyond the Comics ” Hwa Shan Art District , Taipei, Taiwan
2002 “ Abnormal Comics ” Prototype Art , Tainan , Taiwan
2002 “ Text Field—15parabola ” Main-trened Art Space , Taipei , Taiwan
2001 “ Osaka Triennale 2001” Osaka Foundation of Culture, Osaka , Japan
2001 “ Very Funny Park ” Contemporary Arts Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2001 “ Guan-duh blood horse ” The Bamboo Curtain Studio ,Taipei , Taiwan
2001 “ Four kinds of disasters ” Hong-Gah museum Taipei , Taiwan
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