Tsai Kuenlin

WEBSITE  www.tsaikuenlin.com

EDUCATION
2011  MFA, MFA, Graduate Institute of Arts and Technology (now Department of New Media Art), Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2005  BFA, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

EXPERIENCE
Artist-in-residence
2023  Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
           Chenggong Township Indigenous Cultural Museum, Taitung, Taiwan
           All that we are, Tasmania, Australia
2022  Kunstnarhuset messen, Ålvik, Norway
2021  Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2020  Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2019  Participated in the Art & Culture international exchange program of Nakanojo Biennale 2019, Gunma, Japan
2018  AIRY, Yamanashi, Japan
           KOGANNECHO, Yokohama, Japan
2017  Tai-Pin Elementary School, Keelung, Taiwan
           TOGO Rural Village Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2016  Ji Ji Elementary School, Nantou, Taiwan
           Jan Cheng Junior High School, Taipei, Taiwan
           Akiyoshidai International Artist Village, Mine, Japan
2015  Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH, USA
2012  18th street Art center, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2010  KOGANNECHO, Yokohama, Japan
2009  Jan Cheng Junior High School, Taipei, Taiwan
2005  The Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan

Workshop
2023  “Season, Food Vessels”, Kuang Tzu Po Ai Public House, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Daily, Sound, Shape”, Chenggong Township Indigenous Cultural Museum, Taitung, Taiwan
           “Essence of Listening – The Recording Directional Tool”, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan
2018  “Taiwanese Food Cart”, AIRY, Yamanashi, Japan
           “Sound Fishing”, Ookaga river, Yokohama, Japan
2015  “Sculpture Workshop and Taiwanese Movie Night”, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH, USA

Work
2023  Stage Designer, 2023 Da-Guan Dance Theater Annual Performance, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2019  Chairman, Art Creator Trade Union, Taipei, Taiwan
2017  Standing Director,  Art Creator Trade Union, Taipei, Taiwan

Speech
2024  “Art as the Guiding Principle – Tsai Kuen-Lin’s Special Lecture”,  Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2023  “Cost Control in Artist Residency Communication”, 2023 TASA Annual Meeting, Tainan, Taiwan
2022  “Residency program: Another way to become an Artist”, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan
2018  “Tthe Japanese Art Festival- Koganecho, Tokamachi and Bandai City”, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan

Panel
2023  “Music, language and life- Exhibition Talk”, TaipeiMoCa, Taipei, Taiwan
2021   “Water and Sugar: Online Discussion, Why Artists Need Fieldwork”, TAV, Taipei, Taiwan
            “Water and Sugar : Online Tours”, TAV, Taipei, Taiwan
            “Venturing beyond the Terrain: the Passion for Endless Creativity”, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2020  “Cultural Study Bar: The politics of cultural work”, Taiwan Cultural Policy Think Tank Center, Taipei, Taiwan
            “Into the Unknown– Artist Talk”, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2019  “Artist Talk with Kuen-Lin Tsai”,  IA&A at Hillyer Contemporary Arts Center, Washington, D.C., USA
2018  “Shingo Yamano X Kuenlin Tsai”, KOGANNECHO, Yokohama, Japan
2010  “Art and Society – Vol. 1 Taiwan Report Discussion”, Kitanaka School, Yokohama, Japan

Research
2023  “Island Face, Water Face－ Pre-production research plan” , National Endowment for the Arts Diverse Arts Project, Taiwan
2022  “Follow the Artists to understand the AIR program – Research survey”, National Endowment for the Arts, Taiwan

AWARDS
2014  Public Art Awards by Ministry of Culture, Best Public Participation Award, Taiwan
2013  Completed “The Arts and Humanities Research in Japan”, Arts Travel Project Subsidy by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2011  “Taipei Arts Awards 2011”, Selected, Taipei, Taiwan
2008  The 6th Taoyuan Creation Award, Selected, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2004  “Weather in My Brain Sound-Visual Art Festival 2004”, Finalist, Taipei, Taiwan
           “In Focus – Out of Focus”, Taipei Film Festival 2004, Taipei Film Award, Finalist, Taipei, Taiwan
2003  Motion Picture Scholarship by Government Information Office, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Story”, Taipei Film Festival 2003, Taipei Image Award, Honorable Mention, Taipei, Taiwan

SOLO EXHIBITONS
2023  “[   ]- Scape”, Chenggong Township Indigenous Cultural Museum, Taitung, Taiwan
           “Sound Appearance: Underwater 5m”, Soil space , Tainan, Taiwan
2021  “Water and Sugar”,Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2020  “Preserved Objects of Sea Flavor”, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2019  “Whispers of Memories”, B.B. Art, Tainan, Taiwan
2017  “Here is Akiyoshidai”, Taipei international Artist village, Taipei, Taiwan
2016  “The Invisible Sound”, Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015  “Treesure House”, Waterloo Arts Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
           “As We Hear/Say”, Taishin Bank, Taipei, Taiwan
2013  “Transformation of Experience”, 789 Chicken Farm, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2011  “SOUND HOME”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2008  “HEARING STRUCTURE”, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023  “Season, Food Vessels”, Kuang Tzu Po Ai Public House E Building 3rd Floor Terrace, Taipei, Taiwan
           “A new era of Taikang”, Mild Art, Tainan, Taiwan
           “Node to Node”, 182 Art space, Tainan, Taiwan
           “Set BAD vol.3”, Taipei international Art Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2022  “2022 MATTAUW Earth Triennial– One Thousand Names of Zeng-wen River”, Tsung- Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2021  “2021 Changhua International Festival of Arts “, Changhua County Art Museum, Changhua, Taiwan
           “The Eternal Soundscape– A Myriad of Everlasting Memories “, Tainan Art Museum, Tainani, Taiwan
2020  “Mark & Memory– 228 Human Rights Special Exhibition “, Taipei 228 Memorial Museum, Pro-Editor Cultural, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Cijin Coast Art Festival– Promise of 1929 meters“,Cijin Art Street, Urban Art Studio, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
           “Flowing & Chasing– The Environmental Education Exhibition of Water Resource “, Aqueduct Museum of Hsinchu City, Hsinchu, Taiwan
           “2020 Freedom of Speech Day “, National Human Rights Museum, Pro-Editor Cultural, New Taipei, Taiwan
           “Visible secrets: Exploring the secret world of visual music“, Art Bank Taiwan, Taichung, Taiwan
2019  “Collecting: This is the way to do it “, Kaohsiung Children’s Museum of Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
           “The 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child “, National Human Rights Museum, GOLDILOCKS Production, New Taipei, Taiwan
           “Sea View“, Oro island, Dalsbruk, Finland
           “Nakanojo Biennale 2019 “, Nokanojo Area, Office of Nakanojo Biennale, Gunma, Japan
           “Starting from the Island “, IA&A at Hillyer Comtemporary Arts Center, Washington, D.C., USA
           “Uprising, Intaking“, Aqueduct Museum of Hsinchu City, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2018  “Koganecho Bazaar 2018: Frying Supermarket “, KAMC, Yokohama, Japan
           “Street museum of ART +“, Urban Art Studio, Tainan, Taiwan
2017  “3rd Multidisciplinary Art Show 2017- Human Ecology & Art “, Artist Rashid Chowdhuri Art Gallery, Chittagong, Bangladesh
           “10 years of SOKA so YOUNG“, Soka Art Center, Keelung, Taiwan
           “Keelung Nights—Nordic Lights“, Tai-Pin Elementary School, Keelung, Taiwan
           “《Very Period》20th Anniversary Salon “, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
           “2017 Taipei Art District Festival“, Ming Shui Park, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Solar Wind Screams, Lunar Rains Slap”, TOGO Rural Village Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
           “EXTRAORDINARY—25th Anniversary of Soka Art”, Yun Feifan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
           “2017 Next Art Tainan”, Anping Customs, Tainan, Taiwan
2016  “Roppongi Art Night 2016”, Roppongi hills North tower, Tokyo, Japan
           “Hsinchu International Land Art Festival”, Hsinchu Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan
           “Harbor International Art Fair”, Kaohsiung Exhibition Center, Kaohsiung,Taiwan
           “The Features of This Land”, Akiyoshidai International Artist Village, Mine, Yamaguchi, Japan
2015  “Art Tainan 2015”, Tayih Landis Hotel, Tainan, Taiwan
2014  “Artist Fair Taiwan”, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Dream Of A Better Tomorrow”, Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2013  “Land up in the ground”, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
           “INTER-VISION a contemporary art exhibition Across the Strait 2013”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2012  “JOY Reading Public Art Festival”, National Library of Public, Taichung, Taiwan
          “The Islanders“, SOKA art center, Tainan, Taiwan
2011  “2011 Taipei Arts Awards”,Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
           “ART with WIND – Land Art Installation Exhibition”, Tianmu Sports Park, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Creating Spaces – The 5th Anniversary of VT”, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
           “7th Chinese character Festival”, Confucius Temple, Taipei, Taiwan
2010  “KOGANECHO Bazaar 2010”, KAMC, Yokohama, Japan
           “Hyper-Perception”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2009  “2009 Very Fun Park”, Gregory Shop, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Very Channel”, Taiwan New Arts Union, Tainan, Taiwan
           “EASY PLASTIC”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2007  “C06 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta III-DO”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2006  “Feigning Movement”, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2005  “BUILDING/VISION”, Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
2004  “Never Kill Camera Film Festival”, SPOT-Taipei Film House, Taipei, Taiwan
           “New Director Tailly High Film Festival”, SPOT-Taipei Film House, Taipei, Taiwan
           “The 6th Taipei Film Festival”, President movie theater, Taipei, Taiwan
2003  “The 5th Taipei Film Festival”, SPOT-Taipei Film House, Taipei, Taiwan

Public Art
2023  Shared Feast. Shared Time, Kuang Tzu Po Ai Public House, Building E, 3rd-floor terrace, Taipei, Taiwan
           Soundscape of Taikang, Comprehensive agricultural wholesale Market of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan
           The Ocean’s Sound of CaoLi, CaoLi Fishing Harbor, New Taipei, Taiwan
2020  Jinci Submarine, Cijin Art Street, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
           Underground Stream IV, Aqueduct Museum of Hsinchu City, Hsinchu, Taiwan
           Underground Stream III, National Human Rights Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
2019  Studying Knowledge & Reading Book, Kaohsiung Children’s Museum of Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
           Sound Track no.01, Kaohsiung Children’s Museum of Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
           Utterance Stage, National Human Rights Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan
           Water in Hsinchu city, Aqueduct Museum of Hsinchu city, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2018  Haian Wutiao, Art Tower F of Haian Road, Tainan, Taiwan
           A Sound Business, Wien disk Shop, Tainan, Taiwan
           Sakariba, Zhongzheng Rd., Tainan, Taiwan
2017  The sound of Discovery, Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan
           TOGO Three Rotues, TOGO Rural Village Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
           The sound of Roppongi 2.0, Anping Customs, Tainan, Taiwan
           JI, Jiji station, Nantou, Taiwan
2016  Thousand Scenes, Hsinchu Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2015  Treesure House, Waterloo Arts Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
           The Curving Alley, Yue Jin Lantern Festival, Tainan, Taiwan
2014  The SOUND CHANNEL of CHIANAN, Chianan Channel , Tainan, Taiwan
           The EXTENION of the STORY, Dunbei Park of Minsheng Community, Taipei, Taiwan
2013  JINGBO SOUND ENVIRONMENT, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tainan, Taiwan
           SHUANGLIAN SOUND ENVIRONMENT, Taipei Metro, Taipei, Taiwan
           SOUND–LIFE, Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2012  PLUS＋, National Library of Public, Taichung, Taiwan
           B.B. SOUND ENVIRONMENT, B.B. Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
2011  Sound Cocoon, Tianmu Sports Park, Taipei, Taiwan
           Sheng, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia