YUAN Goang-Ming

袁廣鳴

works in Taipei (b. 1965)

Yuan Goang-Ming is an internationally renowned new-media artist and a pioneer of Taiwan video art—a medium he has been experimenting with since 1986. Combining symbolic metaphor with the language of technology, his work eloquently expresses the state of contemporary existence. Yuan holds an MFA in Media art from the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe, Germany (1997), and is an assistant professor in the New Media Art program at Taipei National University of the Arts. His works, ranging from photographs to video to multiple-media installations, have been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, and are in private and public collections both at home and abroad. In 2003 he represented Taiwan at the 50^th Venice Biennale, and in 2015 he is a featured solo artist in the 13^th Biennale de Lyon, La Vie Moderne, in Lyon, France. Yuan has also served as a juror and board member of the Collections Committee of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taipei Arts Award, the Venice Biennale (Taiwan Pavilion), and the Asia Society Arts Award.

1965	Born in Taipei, Taiwan
1989	BFA, National Institute of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
1997	Diploma in Media Arts, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
Now	Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Solo Exhibition

2025	Everyday War: Spring Biennale, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.
	Ahead Into the Dark, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
2024	Everyday War, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2018	Tomorrowland, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
	Tomorrowland, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
2015	Dwelling, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2014	An Uncanny Tomorrow, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
	Scanning Memories: Yuan Goang-Ming’s Video Art 1992–2014, Artium Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2012	Disappearing Traces, TKG+, Beijing, China
	Disappearing Landscape — PassingII, Special Project, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
2011	Before Memory, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
	Windows, Pinpon Art Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2007	Disappearing Landscape, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2002	T2: Yuan, Goang-Ming “Human Disqualified”, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
2001	Human Disqualified, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2000	Contemporary Taiwanese Art Exhibition Vol.7 Yuan Goang-Ming Fish on Dish, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
1998	The Reason for Insomnia, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
1992	Out of Position, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Joint Exhibition

2025	The Culture of the Landscape: The Mountain, the Tree and The River, Madrid, Spain
	Black Water — 2025 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	PROTEST, Viewmaster Projects, Maastricht, Netherland
	Then<·>Now: Taiwan Experimental Film and Video Art, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, USA
2024	Travelling 2024, Rennes Métropole film festival, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, Rennes, France
	Festival Programme Commun, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne; Platform 10, Lausanne, Switzerland
	Chiayi International Art Doc Film Festival, Chiayi Municipal Museum, Chiayi, Taiwan
2023	Art in Our Time: NTMOFA Collection Highlights, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	Power! Concrete! Let’s Build the Island’s Modern Dream!, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
	Videoex International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
2022	The Wild Eighties: Dawn of a Transdisciplinary Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Images Creation: Contemporary Virtual Narratives, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, Taiwan
	Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of East Asia Video Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
	L’œil du cyclone, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2021	MAM Digital, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	The Principle of Hope, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
	Watch and Chill: Streaming Art to Your Homes, M+, Hong Kong
	Places of Being, Space and Materiality in Taiwan’s Avant-Garde Art, 1980–2021, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	From Object to Cosmos, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
	Broken Landscapes: Have Our Cities Failed?, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Uneasy Fortress:The “We” after Pandemic, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
	Flowing Refuses to Stop, Yeosu International Art Festival , Yeosu City, South Korea
	HÖHENRAUSCH: Wie im Paradies, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
2020	Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of East Asia Video Art, OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China
	Close to Nature, Next to Humanity, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan
2019	PLUS X, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
	Anxiety of Images, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	Modernology of Time, Hsinchu 241 Art Space, Hsinchu, Taiwan
	More than the Stranger: Short Glimpses of Taiwan, Syros International Film Festival, Syros, Greece
	Behind the Mask: Rose of Modernity, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
	Flowers of Taiwan, Asiatica Film Festival, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
	Perceptions of Time, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
	MAM Collection 010: Fake News?, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	Quintessence of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan
2018	Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence in Collaboration with the Centre Pompidou Chengdu, Chengdu, China
	(Not) Just a Historical Document: Hong Kong–Taiwan Video Art 1980–1990s, TIDF; MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan
	2050 A Brief History of Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	Customized Reality: the Lure and Enchantment of Digital Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	Poetic Utterance, Inart Space, Tainan, Taiwan
	Paradise in Your Heart, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
	Art Night, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
2017	And Now There Are All: Mystery Cases in Contemporary Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
	Urban Nomadism: 2017 Hangzhou Liangzhu Big Roof International Moving Image Exhibition, Liangzhu Culture and Art Center, Hangzhou, China
	Before the Rain, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
	A Reunion With the Sea: Realism of Asian Modern Thought, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
	Ghost, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
	Open Space 2017: Re-envisioning the Future, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2016	Springs Eternal: Glenfiddich Artists in Residence — 12 Years From Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	Analog Welcom, Digital Archive, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	Screen Test: Chinese Video Art Since 1980s (touring exhibition), CAFA Art Museum, Bejing, China; Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
	Mille-feuille de Camélia, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
	Memories Through Cycle — Images by RongRong & Inri and Yuan Goang-Ming, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
	Disappearing Landscape — PassingII, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
	La Ville au Corps, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
	KIK Eight — Ganz Grosses Kino, Kino International, Berlin, Germany
	Beyond 2°, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
	Yoko Ono: Water Event, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
2015	Art Space: Germany, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	The 13th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
	Rewind_ Video Art in Taiwan 1983–1999, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	Taipei Film Festival, Shin Kong Cinemas Taipei; Spot Huashan Cinema, Taipei, Taiwan
	Mobile M+: Moving Images, Midtown POP, Hong Kong, China
	Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk , Korea
2014	Taiwan: Asia Anarchy Alliance, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists, 1961–1970, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	For for for forest, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan
	The Other, The Distance, Hubei Museum of Art, Hubei, China
	We Love Video This Summer, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
	Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
	Japan: Asia Anarchy Alliance, Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo, Japan
	Traces of Disappearance, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2013	Touring exhibition Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, Ars Electronica, Austria, Linz; Cyberfest, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Transmediale, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany; Der Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany; La Maison des Métallos, Paris, France; Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, U.K.; Les Instant Video, Marseille, France (2014)
	Intersecting Vectors — Experimental Projects From the TFAM Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Inter-Vision — A Contemporary Art Exhibition Across the Strait 2013, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
	Design Shanghai, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
	Rolling! Visual Art in Taiwan, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
	Dojima River Biennale: Little Water, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan
2012	Digital Aesthetics 3, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, U.K.
	MADATAC 04 Contemporary Advanced New Media Audiovisual Art Festival, CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadanía, Madrid, Spain
	The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery \| Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
	Transjourney 2012 — New Media Festival, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	How Physical — Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2011	Moving Image in China: 1988–2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
	Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2010	Humanity in Ambiguities: Permanent Collection of TFAM, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
	Cinema Alley 2011, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
	Taiwan Calling — The Phantom of Liberty, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2009	Touring exhibition Extreme Sensibility — Taiwanese Contemporary Video Art, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Las Vegas, U.S.; Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, U.S.; Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, U.S.
	Ela-Asia, Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
	Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, U.S.
	Artium’s 20th Anniversary Show, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
2008	Border of Virtuality — Chinese and Korean Media Art Now Exhibition, Han Ji Yun Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
	Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
	Home — Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	Dwelling Place — Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	A Heartbeat of Time: A Group Exhibition of Glenfiddich Residency Artists, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
	In Between, Asian Video Art Weekend, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
	Pacific Meridian, International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries, Vladivostok, Russia
	Bubble Tea: Contemporary Art From Taiwan, Moravska Galerie Brno, Czech Republic
	Singapore Biennale: Wonder, Singapore
	Daegu International New Media Arts Festival, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Korea
2007	Post Martial Law vs. Post ’89 — The Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,Taichung, Taiwan; Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
	Parody@Beijing, Dimension of Art, Taipei, Taiwan; Beijing, China
	X-Generation — Digital Art Collection of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Art Center of Enghien-Les-Bains, Enghien-Les-Bains, France
	Taiwan: From Within the Mist, Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science, Sioux Falls, U.S.; Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada; Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, U.S.
2006	Taipei/Taipei: Views and Points, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	A Glimpse of Contemporary Art in Taiwan, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
	Macro Vision, Micro Analysis, Multiple Reflections — Contemporary Art in Taiwan Since 1987, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2005	The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Beyond: An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
	Contemporary Art From Taiwan at the Venice Biennale, 1995–2003, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Dreams and Being, Multiple Realities in Contemporary Taiwan Photography and Painting, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Canada
	A Strange Heaven — Contemporary Chinese Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2004	Dreams and Being, Multiple Realities in Contemporary Taiwan Photography and Painting, Centre Culturel de Taiwan à Paris, Paris, France
	Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.
	New-Contemporary Photo of China, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
	The 2nd Auckland Triennial: Public/Private, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tämaki, Auckland, New Zealand
	Liverpool Biennial, Tate Modern, Liverpool, U.K.
2003	Random-ize Taipei, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
	Streams of Encounter — Electronic Media-Based Artworks, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	A Strange Heaven — Contemporary Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
	25hrs Barcelona, International Video Art Show, Barcelona, Spain
	Invisible City, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Center A), Vancouver, Canada
	Cyber Asia — Media Art in the Near Future, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2002	Taipei Biennial: Great Theatre of the World, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Culture Meets Culture: Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
	Pause: Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
	Luna’s Flow, The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2001	010101: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.
	Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, New York, U.S.
2000	Sovereignty & Beyond — Video From Chinese Artist International Fest, Museum of MOST, Hong Kong, China
	A Sparkling City, 2000 Taipei County Art and Technology Exhibition, Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei, Taiwan
	If I had a dream…, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
	Close-Up: Contemporary Art From Taiwan, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
1999	Visions of Pluralism: Contemporary Art in Taiwan, 1988–1999, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
	Time Migration: Techno-Art for the New Millennium, Taipei Gallery, New York, U.S.
	Fast Forward: New Chinese Video Art, Contemporary Art Center, Macau, China; National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
1998	Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1997	ICC Biennial ’97: Communication/ Discommunication, NTT Inter Communication Center(ICC), Tokyo, Japan
1996	Taipei Biennial: The Quest for Identity, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1995	Kwangju Biennial – InfoArt, Gwangju, Korea
1994	The 3rd Fukui International Youth Media Art Festival, Fukui, Japan
1992	International Youth Art Exhibition, Grand Palais, Paris, France
	IT Kitsch /Love Gift, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
1990	Repaint the Landscape, Hanart TZ Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1989	The Three Artists, Crown Culture Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan