Chin Chih Yang

Chin Chih Yang is a multidisciplinary artist. He studied at Parsons School of Design (BFA, 1986) and Pratt Institute (Master of Science, 1994). He currently resides in New York City.

Yang’s work addresses society’s efforts to protect itself, both physically and psychologically, against long-term catastrophe resulting from pollution, surveillance, isolation, quarantine, and religious/political/social intolerance. His interdisciplinary practice combines found materials, video projections, photography, and his own body to make interactive performances that spotlight ways forward. In an interview conducted by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yang said: "An indoor gallery space always reduces audience interaction to some extent, because viewers have to make their way to a particular space to see a work. I try to set things up so that people can interact naturally with my work, whether in a gallery or an unmarked public setting—to best reach people and communicate something."

Work

Yang’s work addresses society’s efforts to protect itself, both physically and psychologically, against long-term catastrophe resulting from pollution, surveillance, isolation, quarantine, and religious/political/social intolerance. The modern world, as Yang conceives it, is a graduated mixture of anxiety and entrancement. 21st-century products can do wondrous things, but producers and consumers alike wantonly discard waste. He explores such short-sighted practices by combining found materials, video projections, performance, and his own body to make art that spotlights ways forward. He likes to collaborate with other artists to create work which deals with the issues affecting individuals and, by extension, specific communities as well as society at large. Incorporating a touch of irony, his art helps us become better acquainted with the frightening side of human nature, signaling experimental and creative ways to view the planet and ourselves.

Selected Performances and Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Projects

2014 “Reconstruction IV”, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Taiwan

2014 “Kill Me or Change” at Art Collect Iran, Iran

2013 “Invisible love and beauty” at Queens Museum of Art Reopening, NYC

2013 “The Millennial Master of Love”, Panoply Performance Laboratory, NYC

2013 “Reconstruction III”, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Taiwan

2013 “Prayer Interactive with the Art Flock Launch”, CUE Art Foundation, NYC

2012 “Kill Me or Change”, The Queens Museum of Art, NYC

2012 “Mathematics of Light”, Bridges 2012 Int’l Conference, Towson University, MD

2012 “Breathing” (commissioned installation), Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012 “Building a Future Human”, The Armory Week, Harvestworks, NYC

2011 “Human Earthquake”, Wall Street, Time Square, Union Square, Dobbs Ferry, NY

2011 “Love for Japan from US”, Rockefeller Center and Union Square Park, NYC

2011 “Project Room”, Butter Gallery, Miami, FL

2010 “123 Pollution Solution 2010”, Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC

2010 “My New Job”, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY

2010 “Prayer for Haiti” (interactive performance), Consulate General of Haiti, NYC

2009 “Carry Water I, II, III”, NY Biennale Art, NYC

2009 “Burning Ice”, Union Square Park, NYC

2009 “123PollutionSolution IV”, Union Square Park, NYC

2008-2009 “Pray for World Peace”, roving multimedia projection, NYC

2008 “American is looking...” (performance/installation) Wall Street/Broadway, NYC

2008 “1,000 years” (human sculpture/interactive installation) Union Square Park, NYC

2008 “The Secret of XS”(installation/performance/video projection) Tribes Gallery, NYC

2008 “UN for Taiwan Flag Project,” Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, NYC/Taipei

2007 “Memory Ceremony & Rebirth”, Ralph Bunche Park, NYC

2007 “When Perfidy Meets Virtue” United Nations, Consulate General of China, NYC

2007 “123PollutionSolution” (video installation) Fort Lee Community Center, NJ

2007 “123PollutionSolution” (video installation) Union Square Park, NYC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 “Trash King” an interactive performance at Arteles Center, Finland

2014 Taiwanese American Artists Exhibition, Queens Museum of Art, NYC

2014 “Art pollution”, Gallery M-Mauersberger, Vienna, Austria

2014 “Recontextualizing the Found”, Anya and Andrew Shiva gallery, NYC

2013 “New/Reconstruction”, PSYCHLOTRON event, at Manhattan, NYC

2013 Lumen Festival 2013, Staten Island, NY

2013 “Pith Man”, Nanhua University, Chiayi County, Taiwan

2013 “The Grand Shop Opening, Panoply Performance Laboratory, NYC

2012-2013 Digital/Electronic Art Fellows exhibition, NYFA Gallery, NYC

2012 “My Brave New World + Mercy to the Earth”, Union Square Park, NYC

2012 “Pith Man” National Museum of Natural Science Botanical Garden, Taichung

2012 “My Brave New World + Mercy to the Earth”, Union Square Park, NYC

2012 “Taiwan Pith Paper”, Hsinchu Culture Bureau, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

2012 “Building a Future Human (Bodies)” – TOMORROW STARS at Verge Art NYC

2012 Performance, New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame Benefit, NYC

2011 “The Balance”, The Hive at 55 and ASI-Artists-10, NYC

2011 “Moving History”, moving video projection, Asian Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland

2011 “Broken Mind”, Art Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Byrdcliffe Residency, open studio exhibition, Woodstock, NY

2011 Verge Brooklyn Art Fair, NY

2011 “Aluminum Forest 2010”, Asian Art Center, Towson University, MD

2010 Miami Art Fair – MIAMI CIELO exhibition, Miami, FL

2010 “Protection”, Surreal Estate, Brooklyn, NY

2010 “Kill Me or Change”, LMCC Swing Space, Governor’s Island

2010 “Broken Mind”, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, NYC

2010 “Kill Me or Change, Passport to Taiwan Cultural Festival, Union Square, NYC

2010 “Coughing Earth” University of North Carolina, Pembroke

2010 “Going Green” Queens Botanical Garden, NY; Asian Art Initiative, Philadelphia;

Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA; University of North Carolina, Pembroke

2010 “Free Money”, Governors Island, NYC

2010 “Kill Me or Change”, Wassaic Project Summer Art Festival, Wassaic, NY

2010 “Housebroken”, Flux Factory inaugural exhibition, Long Island City

2009 “The War Against AIDS/HIV”, Queens Museum of Art, NY

2009 “1000 Years/Human Sculpture”, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn

2009 “Project”, Wassaic Project Summer Art Festival, Wassaic, NY

2009 “Secret of 101”, Figment 09 exhibition, Governors Island, NYC

2009 “100 Degrees”, Queens Council on the Arts/NYC Department of Transportation

Commission, in collaboration with Hector Canonge, Queens College, NY

2009 “Free Money”, The Chelsea Museum, Asian Contemporary Art Week, NYC

2009 “Other, OTHER II” – The Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery, NYC

2009 Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of Art, NY

2008 “Meditation in Contemporary Landscape”, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens,NY

2008 “2050” DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2008 “Contemporary Bird's Nest: Charlie Parker Festival”, Tribes Gallery, NYC

2008 “It's Not Easy”, Exit Art, Herb Tam, NYC

2008 “Outside in: New Realms for Taiwan Art”, Columbia University, NYC

2007 “Beyond Measure”, First Bank Gallery, NYC

2006 “Beyond Measure”, Taipei Culture Center, NYC

2005 “Two Man Show”, Tribes Gallery, NYC

2005 “Artists Strike Twice”, Chelsea Spark Café & Art Center, NYC

2005 “Contemporary Art”, Union Square Park, NYC

2000 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC

1987 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC

1984 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC

1982 Princeton University Selected Photography Exhibition.

External links

The New York Times

Artists Against Corruption

Art Radar Asia

Time Out New York

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