Chieh-Jen Chen  (Taiwanese, 1960) 

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Chieh-Jen Chen Biography
1960   Born in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
2000   The Special Prize, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2008   PULSE Prize, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA
2009   The 13rd National Award for Arts, Taiwan
  Currently works and lives in Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Exhibitions
2012   Twenty years of Chinese videoart, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2012   Border Crossing, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2012   Image Anxiety, PHotoEspaña, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain
2012   Boundaries on the Move – a Cross-culture Dialogue, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv –Yafo, Israe
2011   Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 Finalists Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapor
2011   Past Desire, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2011   Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia
2011   Super Organism, CAFAM Biennale 2011, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011   Thirty years of Chinese Contemporary Art – Moving Image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2011   ACT-TION video exhibition, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2011   Chen Chieh-jen, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen (solo)
2011   Museum on Paper: Twelve Chinese Artists, Iberia, Beijing, China
2011   Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever, 6th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
2011   The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind, 4th Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Germany
2011   Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin, Ireland
2011   Museum on Paper: Twelve Chinese Artists, Iberia, Beijing, China
2010   Factory Makers, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2010   The 8th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2010   Empires Borders I & II- Chen Chieh-jen, Long March Space, Beijing (solo)
2010   On the Empires Borders, Chen Chieh-jen 1996-2010, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (solo)
2010   Empires Borders II- Chen Chieh-jen, REDCAT, Los Angeles (solo)
2010   The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2010   The 4th Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff
2010   There is always a cup of sea to sail in, 29th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo
2009   The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2009   NS Harsha: Nations & Chen Chieh-jen: Factory, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London
2009   The 21st Century, The Feminine Century, The Century of Diversity and Hope, 2009 Internal Incheon Women Artists' Biennial, Incheon
2009   Foreign Affairs, 53th Biennale di Venezia-Taiwan Pavilion, Venice
2009   Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2009   A Factory, A Machine, A Body, Archaeology and Memory of Industrial Spaces, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de la UNAM de México, Mexico City
2009   Fact and Fiction: Recent Works from the UBS Art Collection, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2009   Biennial Cuvee 09, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
2009   Empires Borders I & Military Court and Prison, Main Trend Art Gallery, Taipei (solo)
2009   Vacuumnoise, Trafo - House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
2008   Crossing Values, les Ateliers de Rennes biennale d'art contemporain, Rennes
2008   Biennial Cuvee 08, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
2008   Art is for The Spirit: Work from UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2008   Encounter the landscape, The individual and his self-formation in the social transformation, Palazzo della Esposizioni, Rome
2008   Under the Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, New York
2008   Prospect.1, New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans
2008   The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2008   Memoria- Casting a Gaze, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto-CAMK, Kumamoto
2008   Tiefenrausch (Rapture of the Deep), O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
2008   Memories for Tomorrow: Work from UBS Art Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2008   Military Court and Prison- Chen Chieh-jen, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (solo)
2008   Military Court and Prison, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris (solo)
2008   International Short Film Festival Oberhausen: Border-Crossers and Trouble-Makers, Oberhausen (Film festival)
2008   2008 Image Forum Festival, Japan (Film festival)
2008   The 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (Film festival)
2007   Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto (Film festival)
2007   After the Fact, National Film Theatre, London (Film festival)
2007   Condensation: Five Video Works by Chen Chieh-jen, Asia Society and Museum, New York (solo)
2007   Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary--Optimism in the age of global war, the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2007   Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
2007   Collectors 1, Collezione La Gaia, Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
2007   Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe
2007   Geopoetics, Subject, class and identity, Centro Guerrero, Granada
2007   Cloth That Shook The World, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
2007   The Screen Eye or The New Image, Casino Luxembourg Forum of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
2007   World Factory: Resistance and Dreams, Exhibitions & Public Programs Coordinator, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2006   The Route, Main Trend Art Gallery, Taipei (solo)
2006   Lingchi-Echoes of a Historical Photograph, De Hallen Museum, Haarlem (solo)
2006   Factory, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (solo)
2006   Naked Life, Museum of contemporary Art, Taipei
2006   Undercurrents 06, Museum of Art in Goteborg, Goteborg
2006   Equal and Less Equal, Museum on The Seam, Israel
2006   Liverpool Biennale: International 06, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2006   Fever Variations, Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, South Korea
2006   Altered States, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2006   Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney, Gallery 4a, Sydney
2006   Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, MA
2006   Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh (Film festival)
2006   Hong Kong International Film Festival: Avant-Garde, Hong Kong (Film festival)
2005   Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI), Buenos Aires (Film festival)
2005   Chen Chieh-jen, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid (solo)
2005   Parallel Realities-Asian Art Now, the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2005, Fukuoka
2005   This Storm is What We Call Progress, Arnolfini, Bristol
2005   Variation Xandu, Museum of contemporary Art, Taipei
2005   The Agony and the Ecstasy, FACT( Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool
2005   Slow Rushes for Auckland, Artspace, Auckland
2005   The experience of art, 51th Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Venice
2005   Lisboa Photo 2005, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon
2004   Lingchi-Echoes of a Historical Photograph, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca (solo)
2004   Chen Chieh-jen, Galerie Alain le Gaillard e Olivier Robert, Paris (solo)
2004   Factory, IT Park Gallery, Taipei (solo)
2004   Do You Believe in Reality?, 2004 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2004   Techniques of the Visible, 2004 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2004   New Zealand Community Trust Art & Industry Urban Arts Biennial 04, Christchurch
2004   Slow Rushes- Takes on the Documentary Sensibility in Moving Images from Around Asia and the Pacific, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004   Ruins and Civilization, Eslite Vision Art Space, Taipei
2004   Histories: Eyelids and Lips, Photo Espana 2004, Antigua Fabrica de Tabacos, Madrid
2004   New Identity Part. 5-Tracing Self, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka
2004   The human condition, museum d'Historia de la Ciutat, Barcelona
2004   Spellbound Aura, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2004   2004 Taiwan Documentary International Festival, Taipei (Film festival)
2004   The 48th London Film Festival: Experimental Short Films, London (Film festival)
2004   2004 Vancouver International Film Festival: Experimental Short Films, Vancouver (Film festival)
2004   Image Forum Festival 2004-Experimental Film and Video, Image Forum, Tokyo (Film festival)
2003   Lingchi-Echoes of a Historical Photograph, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (solo)
2003   2003 City_net Asia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2003   Shifting Time/ Space, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
2003   A Strange Heaven-Contemporary Chinese Photography, Rudolfinum Museum, Prague
2003   Invisible City, The Vancouver International Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver
2003   Videoart et Cinema Expe©rimental de Chine Populaire et de Taiwan, Light Cone, Paris (Film festival)
2002   Great Theatre of the World, 2002 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2002   The Realm of Illusion, Main-Trend Art Space, Taipei
2002   Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
2002   Lingchi-Echoes of a Historical Photograph, an abandoned factory, Taoyuan (solo)
2001   Chen Chieh-jen, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (solo)
2001   Floating Chimeras- Contemporary Asian Art, Edsvik konst och kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden
2001   From Iconoclasm to Neo-Iconolatry, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei
2001   Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Queens Museum of Art, New York
2000   Le soleil se l Est, Hanlim Museum, Seoul
2000   The 31st Rencontres Internationale de la Photographie, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles
2000   The Mind on the Edge (of the New Centres), Photo Espana 2000, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
2000   New Identity 4-Digital Edge, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka
2000   Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale de Lyon Contemporary Art, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon
2000   Man & Space- Art & Human Rights, Gwangju Biennale 2000, Gwangju, South Korea
1999   International Photography Biennale, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
1999   Close to Open, 48th Biennale di Venezia-Taiwan Pavilion, Venice
1998   Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
1998   Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1998   Revolt in the Soul & Body II, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (solo)
1997   Revolt in the Soul & Body I, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei (solo)
1996   The Quest for Identity-Sexuality and Power, 1996 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei