Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971, Yeh emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of eleven. As a teenager in Tampa, Florida, Yeh was fascinated by heavy metal music and aspired to be a rock-and-roll photographer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography from the University of South Florida (1994) and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design (1997). Graduate workshops at Brown University's experimental Literary Arts Program and a three-month visit to Taiwan in 1996 (his first since emigrating), fueled his thesis work on themes of displacement, assimilation, cultural identity and racial politics. Relocating to New York City, Yeh exhibited work at Columbia University, New York University, Bronx Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography. Yeh presented his seminal photography work, Guest: On the Subject of Home, at his "Septemberly" Brooklyn studio in December 2001, shortly after 9/11. Since returning to live permanently in Taiwan in 2002, Yeh has been active as an artist, curator and instigator. Yeh’s work is shown and collected internationally, and his photographic and text-based projects continue to explore the dynamics of the individual within collective practices, centering on both the personal and the socio-political relationships between the self and the city in which he resides. His collective and collaborative-based practice is seen in major projects such as Treasure Hill Tea + Photo (THTP) and the ongoing Antiquity-like Rubbish Research & Development Syndicate. Yeh lives and works in Yangmei, Taiwan.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 “Sofa Prototype”, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 “Antiquity-like Rubbish Research & Development Syndicate”Selected Works: 2010 To Present, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 “Three Places: for Marguerite Duras, 2003 to 2006”, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 “Antiquity-Like Rubbish Research & Development Syndicate”, 5-8 Chung San Road, Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 “Go Jian Quest with Limo & Kong”, Arrow Factory, Beijing, China
2014 “Antiquity-Like Rubbish Research & Development Syndicate: Selected Documents and Photographs: 2010 to 2014”,Fotoaura Photography Institute, Tainan, Taiwan
2011 “Antiquity-Like Rubbish Research & Development Syndicate”, Miaoli, 15 Datung Street, Miaoli, Taiwan
2011 “New Day Street + Treasure Hill | 2008 to 2011 Selected Works”, Hanart Square, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2009 “Divinity Trace”, New Day Street, Yangmei, Taiwan
2008 “THTP Project, Phase Five, Oversight”, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
2007 “20 Boulevard Soult”, Cite Internationale des Art Gallery, Paris, France
2006 “THTP Project, Phase Four, the Archive + the Garden”, Treasure Hill Artivist CO-OP, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 “Wei-Li Yeh: Three Places: Photographs 2002-2005”, NCU Art Center, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
2001 “Guest: On the Subject of Home”, Septemberly Studio, Brooklyn, New York, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 “Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 “2015 IT PARK Limited Editions”, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 “Cross-Strait Young Artists Exhibition/Taipei: The Lost Garden”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 “The Gift”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 “Thaitai: Measure of Understanding”, MOT, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Shanghai Biennial”, Power Station, Shanghai, China
2012 “Taipei Biennial”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 “Post-Actitud”, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
2011 “Taiwan Centennial Photography Exhibition”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 “Taiwan Calling: Contemporary Artist of Taiwan”, Lugwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2010 “Taipei Biennial”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 “Found Beauties from Corporate and Private Collection”, Kitakyushu Art Museum, Kitakyushu, Japan
2010 “Ethique d’aujourd’hui sue le Patrimoine”, Galerie Frederic Moisan, Paris, France
2010 “Get It Louder”, SOHO-San-Li-Tsun, Beijing, China
2009 “Topographie in Vivo”, Talmart Editions, Paris, France
2009 “Whose Exhibition is This? ”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 “SWEETIES: Celebrating 20 Years of IT Park”, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 “Taiwan Biennial”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2008 “The Third Guangzhou Triennial”, Guandong Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, China
2006 “Altered States”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 “Wanakio Art Festival”, Maejima Art Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
2004 “2004 Taipei Biennial”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2003 “Only Skin Deep: Representation of the American Self”, International Center of Photography, New York, USA |
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