Tseng Chien-Ying (b. 1987, Nantou, Taiwan) is an artist based in Taipei. He received his MFA in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2013. Working primarily with ink, gouache, and ceramic sculpture, Tseng draws upon traditional East Asian materials and aesthetics to articulate contemporary conditions of embodiment, spirituality, and socio-cultural tension.
Tseng’s recent solo exhibitions include: Regarding the Mediocrity of Others, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai (2025); Skin Depth, Each Modern, Taipei (2022); Cacotopias, Red Gold Fine Art, Taipei (2020); The Daydream of Delusions, Red Gold Fine Art, Taipei (2017). Recent group exhibitions include: Too Loud a Solitude: A Century of Pathfinding for Eastern Gouache Painting in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2024); Here, Where, There?, Almine Rech, Shanghai (2024); Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2020); SPECTROSYNTHESIS II, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre & Sunpride Foundation, Bangkok (2019); Memories Interwoven and Overlapped: Post-Martial Law Era Ink Painting in Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2016). His works are included in multiple institutional collections, such as Space K, Seoul, Korea; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Chishang Barn Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Tseng was selected for the MIT New Artists Project by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture (2015), and received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council (2017).
Courtesy Kiang Malingue

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