Chou Yu-Cheng work's has explored attitudes around hygiene and how new diseases have changed the way societies operate. Chou experiments with pigment and materials in a painting practice that reflects on how art is contextualised and displayed. Recent work considers nature and melancholy following the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreChou was born in 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan. He lives and works in Taipei. Chou is known for making paintings, objects and performances that question society and the place of art within it. Installations have incorporated audiences, performers and the gallery space itself to examine the structure of cultural industries: how corporate sponsorship influences art institutions, as well as the role of less visible workers such as cleaners and security guards.
His work has explored attitudes around hygiene and how new diseases have changed the way societies operate. Chou experiments with pigment and materials in a painting practice that reflects on how art is contextualised and displayed. Recent work considers nature and melancholy following the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Recent group exhibitions include Performa 19 Biennial, New York (2019); Biennale de Lyon (2019); Liverpool Biennial (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila (2018); New Museum, New York (2015); Asian Art Biennial, Taichung (2015); Queens Museum, New York (2013); Taipei Biennial, Taipei (2012). Solo exhibitions include Refresh, Sacrifice, New Hygiene, Infection, Clean, Robot, Air, Housekeeping, jackercleaning.com, Cigarette, Dyson, Modern People III, TKG+ Projects, Taipei (2018) and Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai (2017); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin(2015); Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung (2015); Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2014); Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado (2008). Chou held a residency atthe Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester in 2013 and received the Taipei Art Award, Taiwan in 2012 as well as the Taishin Visual Arts Award, Taiwan in 2011.
Text courtesy Kate MacGarry.
