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[CCSCA Talk] “The Return of the Raja Durian” by Yu Cheng-Ta
1983年生於台灣台南,畢業於國立台北藝術大學美術學院美術系及美術創作碩士班,目前居住及創作於台北。2008年參加第六屆台北雙年展並獲台北美術獎首獎,2009年代表台灣參加第五十三屆威尼斯雙年展台灣館,同年受邀參與奧地利林茲復刻雙年展。2012年獲得東京藝術博覽會唯一獎項培根獎殊榮,並參與第五屆澳洲墨爾本媒體藝術雙年展及法國圖魯斯亞洲製造藝術節,2013年參與紐約ART+網路雙年展、國立台灣美術館亞洲雙年展以及紐約皇后美術館年度計畫 Queens International。2014年受邀中國中央美院的雙年展、國立台灣美術館台灣美術雙年展,與紐約年度藝術盛事「亞洲當代藝術週」重要論壇。作品《Practicing LIVE》(2014) 受邀2014年第十屆上海雙年展及2015年第五十六屆柏林國際影展「Forum Expanded」單元。2016年作品於韓國光州市立美術館及巴黎龐畢度藝術中心展出。2018年,於巴黎龐畢度藝術中心與丹麥夏洛特堡宮進行紀錄片《Tell Me What You Want》(2015-2017)個人放映。2019年參與紐約Performa雙年展,創造了角色「法咪咪(FAMEME)」。2020年於韓國京畿道美術館舉行個展。
Yu Cheng-Ta from Taiwan often involves verbal communication with the subjects and viewers in a playful manner to create the concept of “life theatre”, that is, deliberately setting up real life situations as the shooting scenes. Yu Cheng-Ta earned both an undergraduate and a master’s degree in fine arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts. He was a recipient of the Taipei Arts Award in 2008 and the Beacon Prize at Art Fair Tokyo in 2012. Yu participated in the 6th Taipei Biennial and was featured in the Taiwan Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In 2009, he participated in the Biennial Cuvée 08 at OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria. In 2012, he took part in the 5th International Biennial of Media Art at Experimenta in Melbourne, Australia, and Le Festival Made in Asia in Toulouse, France. In 2013, Yu held a solo exhibition at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, and took part in the Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, as well as Queens International at Queens Museum in New York. In 2014, he held the solo exhibition “Practicing LIVE” at Taipei Fine Arts Museum and participated in the 10th Shanghai Biennial, the 2nd CAFA Biennial in Beijing, and Asian Art Week at the Asia Society Museum in New York. In 2015, he took part in the 56th Berlin International Film Festival Forum Expanded. In 2016, he exhibited in Gwangju City Museum of Art, and in Centre Pompidou. His film project “Tell Me What You Want (2015-2017)” presented in Centre Pompidou in Paris and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in 2018. In 2019, he participated Performa Biennial in New York and created the character “FAMEME”. In 2020, he hold a solo exhibition at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in South Korea.