Wang Yahui (1973 – 2023) born in Taipei and held a master’s degree in arts and technology from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2004. She works across mediums, from video to installation, photography to painting. Using mediums of image, her practice centers on the peripheral vision of the viewer, and the overlap of the reality and the image, proposing questions about virtual / real, interior / exterior, the essence of image, and the viewing experience.
Her motif revolves around the Eastern natural philosophy and the relationship between human-beings and the world. She is genuinely interested in the incorporation of Eastern thought into present world in her examination of contemporary living. Her work of image does not concern creating or delineating a certain landscape; instead, it concerns how a landscape is essentially constructed in the moving image.
She had held residencies at Location One (New York, 2006), Cité des Arts (Paris, 2007), and the Helsinki International Artist Programme (Helsinki, 2010). Her work had also been exhibited at the the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions in Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2023); the Hors Pistes Film Festival at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2008); the Shanghai Biennale (2006); and the Taipei Biennial (2002 and 2023). She had received “Asian Cultural Council (ACC) / Yageo Tech Art Award, Taiwan; Loop Award, Best Gallery Work and Presentation, Barcelona, Spain and the Taipei Arts Award, Taipei, Taiwan.
Education
1998 B.A. in Painting, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 M.A. in Arts and Technology, Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Still life sonata”, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan
2020 “The diamond that is raindrops”Absolute artspace”, Tainan, Taiwan
2019 “A Brief History of Time”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 “Questions to Shadow”, Neuer Kunstverein Giessen, Giessen, Germany
2016 “A Slant of Light”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Near and Far”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
“Pick up a leaf when it falls”, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011 “A day and a new day”, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 “Handmade Fairytales”, Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2009 “Rainbow and Bow”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 “The Tropical Work: Snowman”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2007 “I’ve been here before and will come again”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Arts as Imprints of the Times: Permanent Collection of the NTMoFA”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“Ocean in Us: Southern Visions of Women Artists Part II: Highlights from the KMFA Collection”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“When Night Falls”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
“Breathing Rhythms・Empty Fullness”, Yiyun Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 “Enclave: An Autobiography”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“if you HEAR it before me”, Art Chishang, Taitung, Taiwan
“Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2023 “Taipei Biennial - Small World”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 “Along the journey: new Acquisitions”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Spinning East Asia Series II: A net (Dis)entangled”, Centre for Heritage Arts and Textile, Hong Kong
“Images Creation: Contemporary Virtual Narratives”, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 “A circus of the Soul”, Vernacular Institute, Mexico
“Why this word”, Deluge Contemporary Art, Canada
“Madala Lab”, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
“Places of Being”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“The Poetic Realm”, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Nantou, Taiwan
“Just what is it that makes today’s image so diffrernt, so appealing?”, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“From Object to Cosmos”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“The turn of the Fifth Age”, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Indonesia
2020 “Finding Time”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum,Children’s art education center, Taipei, Taiwan
“To Martian Anthropologists”, New Taipei City Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 “Sui Generis of Taiwan-Jing Pai”, It Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 “Arts. Ask about Asia”, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
“A Space Andante”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Crisscrossing East and West:The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia”, Moca Yin Chuan, China
“Collecting and son on”, Children’s art Education Center, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Arts “Dé-coïncidence—d’où viennent l’art et l’existence?”, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
The 35th Asolo Art Film Festival “TAIWAN VIDEA 2.0: Cultural Encounter─The Taiwanese Avant-Garde Video Exhibition”, Teatro Eleonora Duse, Asolo, Italy
“Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Urban Nomad x TCAC (A Gaze on the Contemporary)”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 “On Track”, Living Art Project, HK MTR Stations, Hong Kong, China
“In the Name of a Gift”, Children’s Art Education Center, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“One Year Video Festival”, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
2014 Taiwan Biennial “YES, TAIWAN”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“Marvelous Encounters in the Collection: On Wings of Music and Poetry”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2013 “Seed Project V–the Real Settlement Future City”, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Photographer X Designer”, Pier-2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“Nuage”, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
“True Illusion, Illusory Truth - Contemporary Art Beyond Ordinary Experience”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “CRUSH on EMU”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
“Boundaries on the Move: A Cross-Culture Dialogue”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
“Loop: A TKG+ Screening”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 “Dialogue in contemporary video art”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“Thinking Cool”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
“Things on Strings”, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Window”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
“Taiwan Calling - The Phantom of Liberty / Elusive Island”, Műcsarnok - Kunsthalle Budapest Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2010 Taipei Biennial 2010, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Double-blind Trail”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
“Future Vision - The APT Global Art Collection”, Li-Space, Beijing, China
“Memory of a Journey: Permanent Collection of TFAM”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Invisible stranger - Be my Guests”, TamTam 8 Art Space, Berlin, Germany
“The Digital Hand-Painting, Drawing, Filming, Digitalising”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“Roppongi Art Night”, Mori Tower (curated by Mori Art Museum), Tokyo, Japan
“Visit to a Small Planet”, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
The 11th Asia Film Festival Tours, Les Studio Theatre, Tours, France
2009 “Post - Flux 2009”, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
“Non Everyday - Hidden Force Fields”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“TaiwanPic.doc - Taiwan Contemporary Art”, L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
“The Epic in the Everyday: Contemporary Video Art from Taiwan”, PAN (Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli), Naples, Italy
“Mind as Passion”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Move on Asia”, Loop Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 “2008 Open city: Architecture in Art”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The 6th City on the Move Art Festival “Dark City + Eye of the City”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
“WANG YA-HUI and HUANG PO-CHIH: Selections from Penumbra: Contemporary Art from Taiwan”, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
“Hors Pistes Film Festival”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The 37th International Film Festival “Exploding Cinema - New Dragon Inn”, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Penumbra - Contemporary Art from Taiwan”, Samstag Museum Galleries, Adelaide, Australia
“Bubble Tea: Art of Taiwan and Its Contemporary Mutations”, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2007 The New Media Festival 07, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami, USA
Changwon 2007 Asia Art Festival “Peach flower, Apricot flower”, Sungsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
“A Runaway Zero”, CANS Art Space, Shanghai, China
“X-Generation - National Taiwan Museum of Digital Art Collection Exhibition”, Engien-Les-Bain, France
“Diverse Vision”, Walsh Gallery, New Jersey, USA
“New Wave of Taiwan Digital Art I”, Chelsea Museum, New York, USA
“Animotion Tropes”, Centre for Art and Humanity (NYMU), Taipei, Taiwan
2006 The 6th Shanghai Biennale “Super Design”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“IRP Exhibition Summer 2006”, Location one, New York, USA
“Empty Field: A Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Contemporary Philosophy”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
“Empty Field II: A Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Contemporary Philosophy”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
“Taipei / Taipei : Views and Points”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Project 24 (Director: Kokman)”, New York, USA
“3x3 Concerto — 2006 Eslite Theater Festival”, Eslite Exhibition / Performance Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
13th Female Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
“A Good Grasp of the Everyday Life”, Exhibition and Performance Centre of TNNUA, Tainan, Taiwan
2005 “LAK-KA-PID LAK-KA-PERD - The Bangkok Invisible Landscapes”, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
“Variation Xanadu”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 “Vision of New Media”, Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan
“Lost Words: Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta IV”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei; National Chiao Tung University Arts Centre, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2003 “25hrs Barcelona” International Video Art Show, EI Raval Sports Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
“City-Net Asia”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
“Random-Ize Taipei”, Eslite Exhibition / Performance Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
“Simulation: The Poetics of Imaging in the Technology Age”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 Taipei Biennial 2002 “Great Theatre of the World”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Taipei Arts Award”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
“Chain - Nomads‧Rally”, Huashan Arts District”, Taipei, Taiwan
“Super Deluxe Display”, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
“Technology and Art 2002 —A Proposal of New Media”, Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan
“CO2 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documentary”, Huashan Art District, Taipei, Taiwan
2001 “No Problem”, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
AWARDS
2012 Outstanding Alumni of Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Loop Award, Best Gallery Work and Presentation, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Yageo Tech-Art Award, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 Taipei Arts Award, Taipei, Taiwan
RESIDENCIES
2010 The Helsinki International Artist Programme, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Cité des Arts, Paris, France
2006 Location One, New York, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Rubin Museum, New York, USA