Wang Yahui turns imageries of contemporary life into micro cosmoses and herself an astronomer observing the hidden relationship between nature and all living things. “What is time to us?” Wang is also the inquisitive Huizi debating about the happiness of fish in Zhuangzi. Her cosmoses are both a condensed essay and a visual poem. There, noise fades and time decelerates, so that floating light and passing shadow arrest for our probing gaze.

• 1973 Born in Taipei, Taiwan
• 1998 B.A. in Painting, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2004 M.A. in Arts and Technology, Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2023 Passed away in Taipei, Taiwan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
• “Still Life Sonata”, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan

2020
• “The Diamond that is raindrops”, Absolute space for the arts, Tainan, Taiwan

2019
• “A Brief History of Time”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan

2018
• “Questions to Shadow”, Neuer Kunstverein Giessen, Giessen, Germany

2016
• “A Slant of Light”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan

2012
• “Near and Far – Wang Yahui”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Pick up a leaf when it falls”, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2011
• “A day and a new day”, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2010
• “Handmade Fairytales”, Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2009
• “Rainbow and Bow”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan

2008
• “The Tropical Work: Snowman”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2007
• “I’ve been here before and will come again”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
• “Aging: A Life Montage”, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

2022-2023
• “Light Up”, Taoyuan Children's Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
• “Images Creation: Contemporary Virtual Narratives”, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Telling a Story with You: Where Have All the Clouds Gone?”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Children’s Art Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2022
• “Along the Journey: New Acquisitions”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled”, Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong, China

2021
• “Mandala Lab”, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
• “Places of Being-Space and Materiality in Taiwan’s Avant-Garde Arte, 1980-2021”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• “The Poetic Realm”, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Nantou, Taiwan
• “Just what is it makes today's image so different, so appealing?” Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “The Turn of the Fifth Age”, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia
• “From Object to Cosmos”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2020
• “Finding Time”, Children’s Art Education Center, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “To Martian Anthropologists”, New Taipei City Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2019
• “Re-present”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Sui Generis of Taiwan-Jing Pai”, It Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2017
• “Arts. Ask about Asia”, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
• “A Space Andante”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Crisscrossing East and West:The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia”, Moca Yin Chuan, China
• “Collecting and son on, Children’s art Education Center”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2016
• “Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Arts”, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
• “TAIWAN VIDEA 2.0: Cultural Encounter─The Taiwanese Avant-Garde Video Exhibition, 35th Asolo Art Film Festival”, Teatro Eleonora Duse, Asolo, Italy
• “Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Urban Nomad x TCAC (A Gaze on the Contemporary)”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2014
• “On Track”, Living Art Project, HK MTR Stations, Hong Kong, China
• “In the Name of a Gift, Children’s Art Education Center”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “One Year Video Festival”, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
• “YES, TAIWAN - 2014 Taiwan Biennial”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• “Marvelous Encounters in the Collection: On Wings of Music and Poetry”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2013
• “Seed Project V–the Real Settlement Future City”, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
• “Photographer X Designer”, Pier-2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• “Nuage”, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
• “True Illusion, Illusory Truth - Contemporary Art Beyond Ordinary Experience”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2012
• “CRUSH on EMU”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Boundaries on the Move: A Cross-Culture Dialogue”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
• “Loop: A TKG+ Screening”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan

2011
• “Dialogue in contemporary video art”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• “Thinking Cool”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Things on Strings”, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “Window”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Taiwan Calling - The Phantom of Liberty / Elusive Island”, Műcsarnok - Kunsthalle Budapest Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2010
• Taipei Biennial 2010, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Double-blind Trail”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Future Vision - The APT Global Art Collection”, Li-Space, Beijing, China
• “Memory of a Journey: Permanent Collection of TFAM”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Invisible stranger - Be my Guests”, TamTam 8 Art Space, Berlin, Germany
• “The Digital Hand-Painting, Drawing, Filming, Digitalising”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• “Roppongi Art Night”, Mori Tower (curated by Mori Art Museum), Tokyo, Japan
• “Visit to a Small Planet”, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
• “The 11th Asia Film Festival Tours”, Les Studio Theatre, Tours, France

2009
• “Post - Flux 2009”, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
• “Non Everyday - Hidden Force Fields”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “TaiwanPic.doc - Taiwan Contemporary Art”, L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
• “The Epic in the Everyday: Contemporary Video Art from Taiwan”, PAN (Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli), Naples, Italy
• “Mind as Passion”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Move on Asia”, Loop Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2008
• “The 6th City on the Move Art Festival - Eye of the City”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
• “WANG YA-HUI and HUANG PO-CHIH: Selections from Penumbra: Contemporary Art from Taiwan”, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
• “Hors Pistes Film Festival”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• “Exploding Cinema - New Dragon Inn - 37th International Film Festival”, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• “Penumbra - Contemporary Art from Taiwan”, Samstag Museum Galleries, Adelaide, Australia
• “Bubble Tea: Art of Taiwan and Its Contemporary Mutations”, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

2007
• “The New Media Festival 07”, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami, USA
• “Changwon 2007 Asia Art Festival-Peach flower, Apricot flower”, Sungsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
• “A Runaway Zero”, CANS Art Space, Shanghai, China
• “X-Generation - National Taiwan Museum of Digital Art Collection Exhibition”, Engien-Les-Bain, France
• “Diverse Vision”, Walsh Gallery, New Jersey, USA
• “New Wave of Taiwan Digital Art I”, Chelsea Museum, New York, USA
• “Animotion Tropes”, Centre for Art and Humanity (NYMU), Taipei, Taiwan

2006
• “The 6th Shanghai Biennale - Super Design”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• “IRP Exhibition Summer 2006”, Location one, New York, USA
• “Empty Field: A Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Contemporary Philosophy”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Empty Field II: A Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Contemporary Philosophy”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Taipei / Taipei : Views and Points”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Project 24 (Director: Kokman)”, New York, USA
• “3x3 Concerto — 2006 Eslite Theater Festival”, Eslite Exhibition / Performance Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
• “13th Female Film Festival”, Taipei, Taiwan
• “A Good Grasp of the Everyday Life”, Exhibition and Performance Centre of TNNUA, Tainan, Taiwan

2005
• “LAK-KA-PID LAK-KA-PERD - The Bangkok Invisible Landscapes”, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
• “Variation Xanadu”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2004
• “Vision of New Media”, Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Lost Words: Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta IV”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei; National Chiao Tung University Arts Centre, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2003
• “25hrs - Barcelona International Video Art Show”, EI Raval Sports Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
• “City-Net Asia”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• “Random-Ize Taipei”, Eslite Exhibition / Performance Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Simulation: The Poetics of Imaging in the Technology Age”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2002
• “Taipei Biennial - Great Theatre of the World”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Taipei Arts Award”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Chain - Nomads‧Rally”, Huashan Arts District”, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Super Deluxe Display”, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Technology and Art 2002 —A Proposal of New Media”, Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan
• “CO2 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documentary”, Huashan Art District, Taipei, Taiwan

2001
• “No Problem”, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

AWARDS

2012
• Outstanding Alumni of Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2007
• Loop Award, Best Gallery Work and Presentation, Barcelona, Spain

2005
• Yageo Tech-Art Award, Taipei, Taiwan

2002
• Taipei Arts Award, Taipei, Taiwan

RESIDENCES

2010
• The Helsinki International Artist Programme, Helsinki, Finland

2007
• Cité des Arts, Paris, France

2006
• Location One, New York, USA