Chiu Yong-Jing, born in Nantou, Taiwan in 1985, graduated with an M.F.A. in the Studio Art (majoring in ink and wash painting) from the Department of Fine Arts, Taipei University of the Arts in 2013. Chiu now works as an artist and art education worker. He takes the experience of mobility in everyday life to interpret each and everything along the process via his own perspectives. The artist focuses on the ever-changing process between humanity and nature, while ruminating the observations into the facet of life, geographic relationship, and the contexts of history and natural environment. Then, he reconstructs the experiences at the moment before representing in his works. Chiu’s employs painting, photography, and installation art as his creative mediums.
In recent years, Chiu traveled through places in Taiwan. Along the way, he picked up cultural marks inscribed here and there thanks to the geographic history, embedded betwixt traces of changes and development in time. His “Mapping project” project during the residency at “+1 Art Base Program” of Chiayi Art Museum employs the geographical context and natural landscape of Chiayi over the century to reflect upon the stimuli rendered by local landscape. Thus, the artist combs through the convergence and ablation of such urban landscape for conversion into an artistic presentation.
2020 South Taipei Program Residency Artists Exhibition (Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei); Art Guerrilla: Matsu Residency Program (National Hsinchu Living Arts Center, Hsinchu)
2018 Artist-in-Residence (The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung)
2014 Sunmoon Lake, Fukuei Cape, Kungliao, and Shintan collected by Art Bank Taiwan of Ministry of Culture.
2013 Places Where I Passed - Chiu, Yong-Jin Solo Exhibitions (Shin Len Yuan Art Space, Taipei)