Wu Chuan-Lun born in Tainan, Taiwan. The ever-changing dynamics, compromises and contradictions informing the relations between nature and civilization, ecology and politics as well as materials and the digital realm, have formed the backdrop for Wu's artistic practice. He employs a diverse range of media and technics, including computer-generated imagery, photography, drawing, 3D printing, found objects, and porcelain, to create conceptual and research-based installations. His recent work often uses the process of collecting/gathering as a point of departure to explore the identity and meaning of the collected/gathered objects, from which he gradually unravels the underlying, entangled historical and social context.
Wu has won the selected prize of Taipei Arts Award (2007), selected prize of Kaohsiung Arts Award (2011) , special prize of Arte Laguna Prize (2021), and nominated for the finalist of Taishin Arts Award (2020) for his solo exhibition “No Country for Canine”. His works have been exhibited at institutions and biennials such as Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2007, 2019), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2015), Gwangju Museum of Art (2016), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2017), Rockbund Art Museum (2019), Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation (2023); Taipei Biennial (2014), Formosa Sculpture Biennial (2015), Animatrix Biennial (2016), Taiwan Biennial (2020) and Daegu Photo Biennial (2023). His works collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, OCI Museum of Art and Art Bank Taiwan.
In recent years, Wu has conducted artist residencies in OCI Museum of Art, Seoul (2016); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2017); Delfina Foundation, London (2021); Labverde, Brazil (2022); MRO Foundation, Arles (2023) and Off-site project in Peru (2018). Wu currently lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Tainan, Taiwan.
selected residencies/
2023 Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles, France
2022 LABVERDE, Manaus, Brazil
2021 Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2017 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (MOC Overseas Residency Project)
2016 OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Kuandu Residency Program)
selected solo exhibitions/
2024 JTC, SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
2022 OOO, SOMA, Berlin, Germany
2019 No Country for Canine, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Grafrath: A Schäferhund Story, LAGE EGAL [IN THE RACK ROOM], Berlin, Germany
2017 AF II, Ho-Yo Space, Tainan, Taiwan
Schäferhund, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 You Will Not Be Wasted, NHUE Art Space, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2012 KiSS... and SAVE, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
selected group exhibitions/
2024 Chimera Island – 19th Digital Art Festival Taipei, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 We Move As a Murmuration, Timespan Heritage & Arts Society, Helmsdale, United Kingdom
2024 Time Knot, TungHai University Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2023 Fotohaus 2023, Tor 111, Berlin, Germany
2023 2023 Daegu Photo Biennial: Again with Photography! , Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
2023 First Half Champions, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan (2023 Creative Expo)
2023 Grow Up, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles, France (The Rencontres d'Arles)
2023 Here is Where We Meet, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi, Taiwan
2023 Yuguang Island Art Festival - Remapping the Earthsea, Yuguang island, Tainan, Taiwan
2022 Wagiwagi, Asia Now, Paris, France
2022 The Artificial, Evolution and Sustainable Future, Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Scenery Making: Between Mindscapes and Landscapes, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2022 KREATUR, Reiter Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2021 Rehearsing the Future, Alien Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2020 Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2020 New Relics I: Crossing Over, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheist Theist, Waley Art, Taipei, Taiwan
An Opera For Animals, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Li Yuan-chia and Homages To, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 The Fourth Age of Man - Contemporary Art in Jinguashi, Gold Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
Art-eology Zoo, Juming Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
2017 2017 Cre8tive Report, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016 Animals and Us, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
As Small As the Universe, Galerie Nichido Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Sailing In The Dark Cave - The Historia Naturalis of Sino Art, Lin&Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Life between Delight and Discomfort, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju. Korea
Space In Mind - Animatrix Bienniale 2015-2016, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
The Essence of Things, Aura Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Incommensurable - Formosa Sculpture Biennial 2015, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung. Taiwan
Dreams‧Habitations - NTMoFA Young Artist Collection Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2014 The Spine of Spectrum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei Biennial 2014 - The Great Acceleration, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The Scene of Nature: East and West, Art 8, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Disco‧Very, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Words, 182 Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
2011 Petject, Fotoaura, Tainan, Taiwan
High Difficulty Fault, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohisung, Taiwan
2007 2007 Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
selected awards & honors/
2021 Winner, Artist in Residency Special Prizes – Labverde (Brazil), 15th Arte Laguna Prize, Cultural Association MoCA, Italy
2020 Finalist, 18th Taishin Arts Awards, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture (No Country For Canine)
2011 Selected Prize, Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
2007 Selected Prize, Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
public collections/
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Art Bank Taiwan, Taichung, Taiwan
selected publications/
2024 Diane Smyth, Multi Multi: Photoworks Annual #31, Brighton: Photoworks
2023 Sangwoo Park, Michel Frizot, 2023 Daegu Photo Biennial Again with Photography!, Daegu: Daegu Arts Center
2023 Multiple Artists, Shishishi: The food is good, the weather is nice, what have you been up to?, Taipei: Islandset
2023 Florent Basiletti, Grow Up, Arles: Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation; Heidelberg: Kehrer
2022 Lilian Fraiji, Labverde 2022, text by Emanuelle Coccia, Camilla Palestra, Manaus: Labverde
2020 Yao-Jui Chung, Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial, Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
2020 Chu Feng-Yi, Relocating Divinity, Taiepi: Elephant White
2019 Wu Chuan Lun - No Country for Canine, text by CHEN Kuan-Yu, CHU Feng-Yi, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Yao-Jui Chung, Shauba Chang, interview by Hai Lin, PHOTO-LOGUES Ⅱ, Taipei: Garden City
2016 Lim Jong-Young, Jo Hsiao, Life between Delight and Discomfort, Gwangju: Gwangju Museum of Art
2015 Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei Biennial 2014 - The Great Acceleration, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
selected projects ＆ events/
2024 Hiding Wood in the Forest - The Artist’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Art Bank, Taichung, Taiwan
2022-2023 Shishishi – TW/DE workshop and publication project, SUAVEART, Taiwan/Germany
2021 Where The Wild Things Are - Posthumanism (co-host with Ko-Fan Lin), Royal Institute of Art, Sweden (online)
2018 Off - Site Project 3: Micro-Historical in Peru, Lima and Cusco, Peru
2015-2017 Spine Project Vol. 96-99, Parkett Magazine, New York, USA