BIOGRAPHY
Charwei Tsai was born in Taipei (1980) and currently lives and works in Taipei and Saigon. Tsai graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Industrial Design and Art & Architectural History (2002) and the postgraduate research program at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2010).
Highly personal yet universal concerns spur Tsai’s multi‐medium practice. Geographical, social, and spiritual motifs inform a body of work, which encourages viewer participation outside the confines of complacent contemplation. Preoccupied with the human‐nature relationship, Tsai meditates on the complexities among cultural beliefs, spirituality, and transience.
Tsai has had solo exhibitions and projects internationally including: Water Moon, Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France and Hear Her Singing, a project commissioned by Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London (both in 2017); A Dedication to the Sea, curated by Eugene Tan at Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Singapore (2012) and Water, Earth and Air, curated by Suhanya Raffel at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney (2009).
She has participated in exhibitions and biennials including Biennale of Sydney and Sharjah Calligraphy Biennale, (2016), Simple Shapes at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2015) and Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2014); Sharjah Biennial (2013), Millennium Magazines, MoMA, New York, USA and Phantoms of Asia at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (both in 2012), Yokohama Triennial (2011), 6th Asia Pacific Triennial (2009), Traces of the Sacred, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008), Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves at ZKM Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2007), and the inaugural Singapore Biennale (2006).
Tsai’s works are in public and private collections including those held at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Mori Art Museum, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Yokohama Museum of Art, FRAC Lorraine, Kadist Foundation, Uli Sigg Collection, and Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen.
Tsai has also published a curatorial journal titled Lovely Daze since 2005. The complete sets of Lovely Daze are in the library collections of Tate Modern, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pompidou Center, Paris, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona.
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Westbund Art & Design, Shanghai, China
| Charwei Tsai was born in Taipei (1980) and currently lives and works in Taipei and Saigon. In addition to her art practice, Tsai publishes, designs and edits Lovely Daze, a curatorial journal published biannually. DOWNLOAD FULL CV |
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| EDUCATION | |
| 2010 | L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Post-graduate Research Program La Seine |
| 2002 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design and Certificate in Art & Architecture History |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected) | |
| 2017 | Water Moon, Contemporary Art Institute, Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 2017 | Hear Her Singing, Commissioned by Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK |
| 2017 | As It Is, Mor Charpentier, Paris, France |
| 2016 | Universe of Possibilities, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2014 | We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2013 | Meeting Point: Dual Solo Show of Charwei Tsai and Chi-Tsung Wu, curated by Jenny Lee, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2012 | A Dedication to the Sea, curated by Eugene Tan, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Singapore |
| 2012 | A Pilgrimage Through Light & Spells, Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris, France |
| 2012 | L’ombre des Sens: Charwei Tsai et Wu Chi-Tsung, Maison Salvan, Labège, France |
| 2011 | Thoughtforms, curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, The Guild, Mumbai, India |
| 2011 | Elemental Light, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2011 |
Gone!, Atelier 7, Paris, France
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| 2011 | My Nature, curated by David Rosenberg, Deyrolle, Paris, France |
| 2011 | Ah! The Esplanade, Singapore |
| 2009 | Between Thoughts and Words, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia |
| 2009 | Water, Earth and Air, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia |
| 2009 | Baptism, The Church of Saint Severin, Paris, France |
| 2009 | Charwei Tsai: Transience, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2008 | 7 Ideas in 7 Days, Gallery Sora, Tokyo, Japan |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected) | |
| 2017 |
Under Influence, Asia Art Archive, Art Basel, Hong Kong, China
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| 2017 | Kailash Cartographies, The New School, New York, USA |
| 2017 | Armory Show, New York, USA |
| 2017 | Land and People: New Media Works from Asia – Pacific, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia |
| 2016 | The Editorial, curated by Kit Hammonds and Ingrid Chu in partnership with the Asia Art Archive and Vernacular Institute, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2016 | Westbund Art & Design, Shanghai, China |
| 2016 | Towards a Cosmomorphic World, Contemporary Art Institute, Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 2016 | Yokohama Museum of Art Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2016 | Rêve obscur : au pays des étoiles terrestres, La Grande Place, Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis- les-Bitche, France. In collaboration with FRAC Lorraine and la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès |
| 2016 | Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
| 2016 | Biennale of Sydney, Mortuary Station, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal |
| 2016 | Ink Remix: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney, Australia |
| 2016 | Chinese Whispers – Recent Art from Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum & Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland |
| 2016 | Planetary Garden, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | Visible/Invisible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada |
| 2015 | INK REMIX: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, curated by Dr. Sophie Mclntyre, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia |
| 2015 | Art Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2015 | Para Site Fundraising Auction, Bonhams Hong Kong Gallery, Admiralty, Hong Kong, China |
| 2015 | Im Dickicht der Haare, Grimmwelt, Kassel, Germany |
| 2015 | INK REMIX: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, curated by Dr. Sophie Mclntyre, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra City, Australia |
| 2015 | Forever Young, Asia University Museum, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 2015 | Thinking Current, curated by Leeza Ahmady, a major exhibition as part of the Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) Platform, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, USA |
| 2015 | Go East: Gene and Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2015 | Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty, curated by Jean de Loisy and Fumio Nanjo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Traveling exhibition from Centre Pompidou-Metz and Fondation d’entreprise Hermès |
| 2015 | (DÉ)PLACEMENTS, curated by Koyo Kouoh, La Défense, Paris, France |
| 2015 | TYPOMOTION: Type as Image in Motion, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan. Produced by ZKM Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2014 | Still Moving: A Triple Bill on the Image, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| 2014 | There, Where My Language Ends, I Come by Everyday, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria |
| 2014 | Simple Shapes, curated by Jean de Loisy, Pompidou Center, Metz, France |
| 2013 | Cross-Strait Relations, curated by Arthur Ou, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA |
| 2013 | Market Forces: The Friction of Opposites, curated by Joselina Cruz, Ark Fongsmut, Lee Daehyung, Qiu Zhijie and Alia Swastika, Osage Foundation, Hong Kong, China |
| 2013 | Sharjah Biennial, curated by Yoko Hasegawa, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
| 2013 | Dojima River Biennale, curated by Rudy Tseng, Osaka, Japan |
| 2013 | Parkett – 220 Artists’ Editions & Collaborations +5, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2012 | Boundaries on the Move: Taiwan-Israel, a Cross-Culture Dialogue, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel |
| 2012 | Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, curated by Mami Kataoka and Allison Harding, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA |
| 2012 | Millenium Magazines, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA |
| 2012 | Trading Futures, curated by Meiya Cheng and Pauline Yao, Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC), Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2011 | Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2011 | Ruhrtriennale, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, Germany |
| 2011 | Physical Video, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2010 | Taiwan Calling, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2010 | Forum Biennial, curated by Manray Hsu, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2010 | On Publications, Portraits, Public Art & Performance, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK |
| 2010 | MAGAZIN, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2009 | Reshaping History: Chinese Art from 2000-2009, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | 6th Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2009 | Taiwan.Doc, Museum of L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France |
| 2008 | Traces of the Sacred, curated by Jean de Loisy, Pompidou Center, Paris, France |
| 2008 | Nature Fragile, Museum of Hunting and Nature, Paris, France |
| 2007 | Animamix Biennale, curated by Victoria Lu, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China |
| 2007 | Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, curated by Peter Weibel and Wonil Rhee, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2006 | First Singapore Biennale, Singapore |
| 2005 | J’en Rêve, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA | |
| FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France | |
| Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Kadist Foundation, Paris, France | |
| Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia | |
| Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia | |
| Sigg Collection, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan | |
| AWARDS & NOMINATIONS | |
| 2013 | Finalist, Sovereign Asian Art Prize by Julius Baer, Hong Kong, China |
| 2012 | Finalist, SAM Art Prize, Paris, France |
| LOVELY DAZE EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS – Lovely Daze is a curatorial journal of contemporary art published by Charwei Tsai since 2005 www.lovelydaze.com | |
| 2016 | The Editorial, curated by Kit Hammonds and Ingrid Chu in partnership with the Asia Art Archive and Vernacular Institute, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2016 | Special Edition by Mark Borthwick, Book launch at Idem, Paris, France |
| 2015 | Singapore Art Book Fair, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Singapore |
| 2015 | LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2014 | NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, USA |
| 2013 | Parkett – 220 Artists’ Editions & Collaborations +5, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2013 | Issue 9: A Walk in the Forest, Book launch at LA Art Book Fair, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LAMoCA), USA |
| 2012 | Millenium Magazines, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2012 | Nomad Store – An Exploration of Young Chinese Creativity – Art, Fashion, Publishing,Presented by ISIS Gallery at London Newcastle Project Space, London, UK |
| 2012 | NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Issue 8: Pilgrimage, Book launch, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA |
| 2011 | Issue 8: Pilgrimage, Book launch, Printed Matter, New York, USA |
| 2010 | Lovely Daze Presentation, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Pompidou Center, Paris, France. |
| 2010 | Longe Daqui, Aqui Mesmo, Library project, 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2010 | Issue 7:Good Intentions Lead to Hell?, Book launch, Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | On Publications, Portraits, Public Art & Performance, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK |
| 2010 | MAGAZIN, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2010 | Issue 6: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose, London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK |
| 2009 | Special Edition: Rose, Book launch, NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, USA |
| 2009 | Special Edition: Under Influence, Book launch, Zine’s Mate, First Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Special Edition: Under Influence, Book launch, NY Art Book Fair, New York, USA |
| 2008 | Special Edition: Under Influence, Book launch, Utrecht, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Artist’s Magazines, Curated by AA Bronson & Lionel Bovier, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2008 | Issue 5: Hunters & Gatherers, Book launch, New Jerseyy, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2008 | Issue 5: Hunters & Gatherers, Book launch and exhibition in collaboration with Ekovaruhuset,The Gabarron Foundation, Carriage House Center for the Arts, New York, USA |
| 2007 | Issue 4: Numbers, Host of closing reception and performance, NY Art Book Fair, New York, USA |
| 2007 | Espaces Cartographiques, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France |
| 2006 | Issue 3: When I am Alone, Everything is so Surreal, Book launch and performance, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Issue 2: Take a stroll, Book launch and performance, New Museum Bookstore, New York, USA |
| 2006 | First NY Art Book Fair, New York, USA |
| 2006 | MEGAZINES, Visionnaire, New York, USA |
| 2005 | Issue 1: A Day in New York When Nothing Happens, Book launch and performance, Printed Matter, New York, USA |
| LIBRARY COLLECTIONS OF COMPLETE SETS OF LOVELY DAZE | |
| Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | |
| Tate Modern, London, UK | |
| Whitney Museum, New York, USA | |
| PUBLIC TALKS | |
| 2014 | Artist’s Talk, Artist as Writer, Center of Contemporary Art (CCA), Singapore |
| 2014 | Artist’s Talk, Field Meetings, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Asia Society (ACAW), Asia Society, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Artist Books as Work, Platform, or Literature – We Print Art Series Talk Two, hosted by Mei-Ya Cheng, Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC), Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2014 | The Spirit Wakes in the Night Wind – About publications as different ways to imagine art and culture, discussions led by Linda Jensen and Daniel Kurjakovic. Open Platform, Asia Art Archive, Art Basel, Hong Kong, China |
| 2013 | Artist’s Talk, Parson’s The New School for Design, New York, USA. |
| 2013 | Artist’s Interview, Zoomdojo Career Conversation, The Pratt Mansions, New York, USA. |
| 2013 | Artist’s Talk, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan. |
| 2012 | Panel discussion for Asian Contemporary Art Week, San Francisco, USA |
| 2012 | Panel discussion on Artist’s Publications in East Asia at Contemporary Artist’s Books Conference,MoMA P.S.1, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Artist’s Talk, Organized by Clark House Initiative, JJ School of Art, Mumbai, India |
| 2011 | Dust on the Mirror, Discussion led by Charles Merewether and Tony Godfrey with artists of the exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore |
| 2011 | Artist’s Talk, Invited by NS Harsha, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Mysore, India |
| 2010 | Roundtable discussion led by artist Chris Evans, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan |
| 2010 | Lovely Daze Presentation, Kandinsky Library, Pompidou Center, Paris, France |
| 2010 | Artist’s Talk, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2010 | Lovely Daze, Forum Biennale, Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC), Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2009 | Artist’s Talk, 6th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2009 | Artist’s Talk with Margaret Throsby, Charwei Tsai: Water, Earth, and Air, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia |
| 2008 | Interview for Traces of the Sacred, Pompidou Center, Paris, France |
| 2007 | Panel Discussion for Fine Print Program - Lovely Daze at MoMA P.S.1, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Artist on Art. Artist’s Talk for Art Asia Pacific Magazine at Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Artist’s Talk for VSA at National Council of Social Services at Singapore Biennale, Singapore |
ARTICLES
| ARTICLES (Selected) | |
| 2017 | Ardia, C.A. Xuan Mai, Hear Her Singing: Taiwanese artist Charwei Tsai and the Song of Women Refugees. Art Radar Journal, June 28. |
| 2017 | Portfolio: Charwei Tsai, Frieze.com, 19 June. |
| 2016 | Chu, Daphne. “500 Words: Charwei Tsai on Universe of Possibilities”, ArtForum.com, October 21. |
| 2016 | Editor. “20th Biennale of Sydney, Mortuary Station.” The Guardian, January 15. |
| 2016 | Manson, Ted. “Artistic director of the 20th Sydney Biennale on the importance of female artists.” Vogue Living, Australia, March 18. |
| 2016 | Noble, Dimity. “Biennale of Sydney: ‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” Wallpaper, March. |
| 2016 | Ure-Smith, Jane. “Sydney Biennale: a journey of discovery.” Financial Times, April 3. |
| 2016 | Tsui, Enid. “How revenge was spark for one of Japan’s greatest private art collections.” South China Morning Post, May 2. |
| 2015 | Cohen, Eva. “Artists of the pacific rim highlighted at Seattle Art Fair.” International Examiner, August 1. |
| 2015 | Forthescue, Elizabeth. “Sydney Biennale takes on race issues with tent embassy.” The Art Newspaper, October 30. |
| 2015 | Ardia, C.A. Xuan Mai. “’Ink Remix’:Contemporary ink art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong – in pictures.” Art Radar, July 12. |
| 2015 | Pryor, Sally. “Ink Remix at CMAG: Chinese traditions remixed in cutting-edge collection.” The Sydney Morning Herald, June 26. |
| 2015 | Baily, Stephanie. “Same old, brand new: Art Basel in Hong Kong.” OCULA, March 28. |
| 2014 | Duponchelle, Valérie. “De la simplicité en toutes choses.” Le Figaro, June 16. |
| 2014 | Gyalthang, Tsering Tashi and Tsai, Charwei. “I Asked the River Tonight.” ArtReview Asia, September. |
| 2013 | Kataoka, Mami. “A Universal View of the World Built Upon Human Closeness: Does ‘Little’ Mean ‘Little’?” RealKyoto, August. |
| 2013 | Tsai, Sylvia. “Meeting Point”, Art Asia Pacific, August 17. |
| 2013 | “Hong Kong-Meeting Point: Dual Solo Show of Charwei Tsai and Chi-Tsung Wu”, Monocle, August 16. |
| 2013 | “Lee, Edmund. Arts Preview: Charwei Tsai”, South China Morning Post, August. |
| 2013 | Cheung, Tim. “Meeting Point for Taiwanese Artists Charwei Tsai and Chi-Tsung Wu”, BLOUIN ARTINFO Asia, July 5. |
| 2013 | Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia, “Taiwanese Artist Charwei Tsai Explores Beauty and Dangers of Sea”, BLOUIN ARTINFO Asia, January/February. |
| 2012 | Solanki, Veerangana. Asia 3: Lee Mingwei & Charwei Tsai”, Flash Art, November/December. |
| 2012 | Godfrey, Tony. “Stopping for a Moment, The Art of Charwei Tsai”. LEAP, February. |
| 2011 | Wakeling, Emily. “Yokohama Triennale: Something Borrowed, Something New”, Tokyo Art Beat, November. |
| 2011 | Chaplin, Julia. “Latest Stop on the Art Circuit? Hydra, Greece”. The New York Times, August 12. |
| 2011 | Fairley, Gina. “Interpreting the Ephemeral”. Asian Art News, Janurary/February, pp. 65-69. |
| 2010 | Cotter, Holland. “The Perpetual Dialogue”, The New York Times, January 7 |
| 2009 | Fulton, Adam. “The Fleeting Beauty of Art that is Made to Perish”, The Sydney Morning Herald, October 16, p.6. |
| 2009 | Wong, Jill. “Charwei Tsai: The Art of Change”. C-Arts, August, pp. 84-86. |
| 2007 | Heartney, Eleanor. “Temples of Art”, Art in America, April. |
| 2007 | Campagnola, Sonia. “From Singapore to Gwangju”, Flash Art, January/February. |
| 2006 | Hill, Joe Martin. “A Tale of Two Biennales: Singapore and Shanghai”, Yishu, December. |
| 2006 | Brener, Julie. “10 Young Artists to Watch”, ARTnews, November. (Cover) |
| 2006 | Lee, Pamela. “2006 Singapore Biennale”, Art Forum, November. |
| 2006 | Yee, Blythe. “Art Attack”, Wall Street Journal Asia, September 1-3. (Cover) |
| 2005 | Davies, Serena. “The Shock of the Beautiful”, The Daily Telegraph, UK, August 6. |
| 2005 | Darwent, Charles. “Tofu – Is It the New Paint?”, The Independent, UK, July 24 |
ESSAYS
Liberation Through Writing
by Kit Hammonds
Published by TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
Contemplating the Structure of the World in Swirls and Spirals
by Mami Kataoka
Published in We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness
by TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
Water, Earth, Air by Suhanya Raffel
Published in Water, Earth, Air
by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, 2009
INTERVIEWS
Heman Chong / Charwei Tsai
Singapore / Saigon 17 July 2014
Published in We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness
by TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
Tina Lai / Charwei Tsai
New York / Paris 28 June 2009
Published in id-talk
Lesley Ma / Charwei Tsai
New York/Paris 5 April 2009
Published in Charwei Tsai: Transcience
by Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
BOOKS
| MONOGRAPHS | |
| 2015 | We Came Whirling Out of Nothingness Published by TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan. Essay by Mami Kataoka and Interview with Heman Chong. |
| 2013 | Meeting Point: Dual Solo Show of Charwei Tsai and Chi-Tsung Wu (English/Chinese) Published by Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China Essay by Melissa Lee and Interview by Jenny Yen Chen Lee |
| 2012 | A Pilgrimage Through Light & Spells (Artist’s Book) (English/French/Chinese) Published by Idem, Paris, France Interview by Leanne Sacramone |
| 2009 | Charwei Tsai: Water, Earth and Air Published by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia Introduction by Tony Ellwood and Gene Sherman, Essay by Suhanya Raffel, and Interview by Tony Brown |
| 2009 | Charwei Tsai: Transience (English/Chinese) Published by Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China Interview by Lesley Ma |
| BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGS | |
| 2017 | Land and People: New Media Works from Asia – Pacific Published by Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia |
| 2016 |
20th Biennale of Sydney: The Future is Already Here -
It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed
Introductions by Artistic Director: Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal
Published by Biennale of Sydney, Australia
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| 2016 | Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial Edition 7: Dot Published by Department of Culture, Sharjah, UAE |
| 2016 | Chinese Whispers – Recent Art from Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections Text by Kathleen Buhler Published by Kunstmuseum Bern & Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland |
| 2015 |
Ink Remix: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Introduction by Dr. Sophie McIntyre
Published by University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney, Australia
& Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia |
| 2015 |
(IN)visible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art
Text by Fuyubi Nakamura
Published by University of British Columbia (UBC)
Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
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| 2015 | Go East: Gene and Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection Texts by: Gene & Brian Sherman, Michael Brand, and Suhanya Raffel Published by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation & Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2015 | Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty Text by by Jean de Loisy and Fumio Nanjo Published by Mori Art Museum, Centre Pompidou-Metz and Fondation d’entreprise Hermès |
| 2015 |
TYPOMOTION: Type as Image in Motion
Published by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
& ZKM Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
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| 2014 | Still Moving: A Triple Bill on the Image Published by Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| 2013 | Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography Published by Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Text by Yuko Hasegawa, Edited by Nikki Columbus |
| 2013 | PARKETT-220 Artists’ Editions & Collaborations Since 1984 + 5 Published by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Texts by Huang Hai-Ming, Pu Hong, Susan Tallman, Philip Tinari, and Deborah Wye |
| 2013 | Artwise: Visual Arts 7-10 for the Australian Curriculum Published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd Edited by Glenis Israel |
| 2013 | Little Water Published by Dojima River Biennial, Osaka, Japan Text by Rudy Tseng |
| 2012 | Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past Published by Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA Texts by Mami Kataoka and Allison Harding |
| 2011 | The Book of Guilty Pleasure Published by Singapore Biennale, Singapore Edited by Song-Ming Ang and Kim Cascone |
| 2011 | Buddhas Spur – Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Asien Published by Kustmuseum Bochum, Germany Edited by Hans Gunter Gonlinski and Willy Decker |
| 2011 | Art of Flying: The New Horizons of Art Published by Assouline, Paris, France Edited by David Rosenberg |
| 2010 | 2nd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition Published by Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Edited by Yung-Hsien Chen and Sean Hu |
| 2010 | Dust on the Mirror Published by University of Nottingham, UK Edited by Tony Godfrey and Neil Walker |
| 2010 | Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art Published by Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC), Taipei, Taiwan Edited by Manray Hsu |
| 2010 | Reshaping History: Chinese Art from 2000-2009 Published by Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Edited by Chien-Hui Kao |
| 2010 | The Tradition of the New Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India Edited by Andre Lee |
| 2010 | Emerging Asian Artists Published by Art Gwangju, Gwangju, South Korea Texts by Yongwoo Lee, Carol Yinghua Lu, Veeranganakumari Solanki, and Maurizio Bortolotti |
| 2010 | Taiwan Calling – Elusive Island National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan & Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary Texts by Hsiao-yu Lin and Rona Kopeczky |
| 2010 | Seven Day Weekend Published by Royal College of Art, London, UK, LA SALLE, Singapore and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Edited by Claire Smithson |
| 2009 | Taiwanpics.doc – Art Contemporain Taiwanais Published by Beaux-Arts de Paris les editions, Paris, France Edited by Henry-Claude Cousseau |
| 2009 | 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Published by Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Edited by Suhanya Raffel and Lynne Seear |
| 2009 | Nature Fragile (French) Published by Beaux Arts de Paris les editions, Paris, France Texts by Claude D’Anthenaise and Louis Albert de Broglie |
| 2008 | Traces du Sacré (French) Published by Pompidou Center, Paris, France Edited by Mark Alizart, Angela Lampe, Jean de Loisy, Olivier Scheffer, and Yves Cusset |
| 2008 | Sonsbeek 2008: GRANDEUR (Dutch) Published by Arnhem, Holland Edited by Anna Tilroe |
| 2008 | Art Past, Art Present, 6th Edition Published by Prentice Hall, London, UK Edited by David G.Wilkins, Bernie Schultz, and Katheryn M Linduff |
| 2007 | PostER Published by Hydra School Project, Hyrdra, Greece Edited by Dimitrios Antonitsis |
| 2007 | Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves Published by ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany Edited by Peter Weibel, Gregor Jensen, and Wonil Rhee |
| 2006 | Belief: Singapore Biennale Published by Singapore Biennale Texts by Fumio Nanjo, Ronald McDonald, Sharmini Pereira, and Eugene Tan |
| 2005 | J’en Rêve Fondation Cartier, Paris, France Edited by Hervé Chandès |
PORTFOLIO
STATEMENT
Over the last nine years of my practice as an artist, people often ask me if I am a devoted religious artist or simply in love with the aesthetics of writing texts. Although I have always almost single-mindedly tried to explore one theme that is the Buddhist concept of emptiness, I never thought of myself as a religious artist. I always considered emptiness as a philosophical concept. In my daily life I am still trying to grasp this concept.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form
Emptiness is not separate from form,
Form is not separate from emptiness.
— Excerpt from the Heart Sutra
My work is a meditation on these words. When I write repeatedly on objects, it is my own internal contemplative process that I consider as my practice. My aim was never to illustrate or produce a physical work that explains to others the concept of emptiness. My own understanding of the concept is still rudimentary and I am constantly learning.
Charwei Tsai
December 16, 2014