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 50th Venice Biennale, and in 2015 he is a featured solo artist in the 13th 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 |
