Artists
Artists
Chen Chieh-jen
Exhibiting in Main Exhibition Venue: Earlsfort Terrace
Born 1960 in Taoyuan (TWN)
Lives and works in Taipei (TWN)
In the 1980s, Chen Chieh-jen challenged the limits of expression under the Martial Law system and the conservative art establishment with guerrilla-style performance art and underground exhibitions. Working with local citizens Chieh-jen combines experimental aesthetics with the unique poetic qualities of video to initiate dialogue and connections with audiences, and to imagine new forms through which a “people’s history” can be written and new possibilities through which a “democracy of diversity” can be achieved. The “Chen Chieh-jen Retrospective 1996-2010” opened in 2010 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. His work was included in the Taiwan Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial 2009, the 51st Venice Biennial 2005 and at the 48th Venice Biennial in 1998. He has also exhibited at Biennials and triennials held in Lyon, São Paulo, Liverpool, Sydney, Istanbul, Taipei, Gwangju, Shanghai, Fukuoka and Brisbane.
