Dec. 16 1963, Born in Taipei, Taiwan.
Jun-Jieh Wang graduated from the Department of Visual Communication of the HdK Art Academy in Berlin. He graduated with a diploma in 1995 and completed a master class at the HdK in 1996. Jun-Jieh Wang now lives and works in Taipei as a multi-media artist. He also teaches at the department of fine arts at National Changhua University of Education and Taipei National University of the Arts.
In 1984, He received the Hsiung-Shih New Artists Award. Around that time, he began working with video and installation and became one of the pioneers of video art in Taiwan. In 1989, before leaving Taiwan, Wang collaborated with the New York media-watcher group Paper Tiger TV in producing the video "How History Was Wounded", which deals with the political stance of Taiwan's media during the June 4th Tiananmen incident. In 1995, his video installation "Little Mutton Dumplings for the Thirteenth Day" won the Berlin Television Tower Award.
Since 1997, Wang has focussed on the international arena, creating works and exhibiting for a more international audience. Among others, he represented Taiwan at the 47th Venice Biennial and participated in the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale as well as "Cities on the Move" at the Vienna Secession. He has participated in several important exhibitions since 1998, including at P.S.1 in New York, the Asian Art Triennale 1999 at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan and the Asia Pacific Triennial in Queensland, Australia.
In 2000, Jun-Jieh Wang was selected by the prestigious Japanese art magazine "Bijutsu Techo" as one of the "100 notable artists in 2000". In 2002, Wang was the subject of Japan's NHK documentary "Asian Who's Who", which was aired on NHK's global channel.
In 2006, in collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra, ROC, he served as Staging Visual Director for the Taiwan premiere of Wagner’s complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Jun-Jieh Wang's work as curator and exhibition designer includes: "Faces of the Time" (National Palace Museum, 2002), "Absolut Expressions" (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2002) , "Navigator: Digital Art in the Making" (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2004), "The Post-Stone Age" (Art Taipei 2005), "Lots o'Lotto: Seen and Unseen" (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2005), "Vivienne Westwood" (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2005), "B!AS: International Sound Art Exhibition" (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2005) and "2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga" (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2006).
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2015 - "Project Rrose : Indifferent Sélavy", Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei
2011 - "Project Rrose: Love and Death", Galerie Crand Siecle, Taipei
2008 - "Project David III: David's Paradise", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2008 - Microbiology Association's "The Final: Cullinan+", IT Park, Taipei
2001 - "Microbiology Association: Hotel Project (Bibless)", IT Park, Taipei
1998 - "Aura 52 in Japan", MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka
1998 - "Aura 52", Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei
1997 - "Neon Urlaub/Agency Version", Agfa-Gallery, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong
1997 - "Neon Urlaub/Expo Version", Information Science & Technology Exhibition Center,Taipei
1994 - "Little Mutton Dumplings for the Thirteenth Day", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2016- “Springs Eternal : Glenfiddich Artists in Residence - 12 Years from Taiwan", Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei.
2009 - “Artists at Glenfiddich 09” Glenfiddich Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2006 - "A Glimpse of Contemporary art in Taiwan", Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2006 - "Altered States", Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2005 - "Vision and Beyond", Hong-Gah Museum / National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2005 - "Lots o'Lotto: Seen and Unseen", Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2004 - "Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention", Herbert F. Johson Museum of Art, Ithaca
2004 - "Spellbound Aura-The New Vision of Chinese Photography ", Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2002 - "5th Kwangju Biennial-Pause", Kwangju, S. Korea
2002 - "The Realm of Illusion", Main-Trend Art Space
2002 - "The Brave New World", Galerie Pierre, Taichung
2001 - "Promenade in Asian: Cute", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan
2000 - "The Sky is the Limit: 2000 Taipei Biennial", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2000 - "A Sparkling City", Panchiao Railway Station, Taipei
2000 - "Centrifugal Vision: Video Circle 2000", HKUST Center for the Arts, HK
1999 - "The 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art”, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
1999 - "Fast Forward: New Chinese Video Art”, Centro de Arte Contemporanea de Macau, Macau
1999 - "The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
1999 - "Visions of Pluralism”, China Art Museum, Beijing
1999 - "Face to Face”, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Australia
1999 - "Spiral TV”, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
1998 - "Inside Out: New Chinese Arts", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1998 - "The New Identity", Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka
1998 - "Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1998 - "Traffic Jam: A Billboard Project", Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
1997 - "Cities on the Move", Secession, Vienna; CAPC Musée, Bordeaux; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Louisiana, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London
1997- "The 2nd Johannesburg Biennial", Johannesburg
1997 - "The 47th Biennial di Venezia", Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice
1995 - "Kwangju Biennial '95- InfoART", Kwangju, S.Korea
1989 - "American Film Institute Video Festival", Los Angeles
Artist Residencies:
2009 Artists at Glenfiddich 09, The Glenfiddich Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland |
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