Agi Chen Yi-Chieh was born in Taoyuan, Taiwan and lives and works in Taipei. Identifying as both an artist and a consumer of mass media culture, in her artistic practice Agi focuses on using the colour matrixes of popular cartoon characters as a vehicle through which to create series-based artworks that both reflect mass media culture and, on a deeper level, help to awaken collective visual memory.
Read MoreAgi holds Ph.D in Art Creation and Theory from Tainan University of the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan (2014). She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Arts Prize from the Taipei Fine Arts Museum for her digital print series Powerpuff Girls’ Wednesday (2005); an Asian Cultural Council grant for artist’s residency at Arcus Studio, Japan (2005); the Taiwan-England Artists in Residence Programme at Loughborough University in the UK (2007); and the Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence programme at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown, Scotland (2013). She has participated extensively in international exhibitions and other significant art events both in Taiwan and abroad.