i-Chun CHEN

Introduction to I-Chun Chen

 

I-Chun Chen, Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Yuan Ze University.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Awards, the Best Experimental Film at the Golden Harvest Awards, the First Prize of the Taipei Digital Art Performance Award, etc. Her works have been featured in numerous biennials, electronic arts festivals, and film festivals around the world.

CHEN ’s practice engages in experimental film, interdisciplinary new media, and contemporary painting. Her primary focus is on social issues and folk stories in industrious, marginalized areas, and among the lower middle class, through which she conveys personal experiences between reality and illusion.

Utilizing a research and creative method of cross-comparison, including oral history, field research, solving historical mysteries, dream analysis, and techniques of the occult, she aims to solve puzzles related to the history of cosmos informed by unofficial Taiwanese perspectives.

Exhibition Curation

2026

  • Bodhi Blossoms — Thangka Joint Exhibition

2025

  • The Beauty of Samadhi — Buddhist Arts Exhibition

2023

  • A Kaleidoscope of Secret Vistas — Thangka Art Exhibition
  • Prajna and Pure — Himalaya Thangka Exhibition

2022

  • Enlightenment — Thangka Exhibition

Artist Sharing

2025–2026

  • Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Spiritual Counselling Centre — Thangka Workshop

2022

  • HKU University Museum and Art Gallery — Thangka Workshop

2019

  • HKBU CAI International Arts Festival — Thangka Workshop
  • JCCAC Handicraft Fair — Art Demonstration

2017

  • JCCAC Festival 2017 — DEM ART Live Demonstration

Group Exhibitions

2026

  • Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2026
  • Solaris — Solo Exhibition, No Idea Gallery

2025

  • @N1MALX: Non-Human Life — Bonhams

2024

  • WHATZ Art Curators Fair — Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Paintings in Sai Yuen Lane — Sun Museum
  • WHATZ International Contemporary Art Fair — Taipei
  • Huai II

2023

  • I’m Here! — JCCAC’s 15th Anniversary Exhibition 2023
  • A Map of Soul — JCCAC × PMQ Art Chong In Lane
  • The Soul in Nature × Hon Ming Gallery

2022

  • JCCAC Art Festival 2022 Shuttling — Rafting Journey

2021

  • HKFOREWORD 21
  • Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2021
  • Eight∞n — Master of Arts in Fine Arts Graduation Show
  • It Should Be Coming — Group Art Exhibition

2019

  • Factory Forward: JCCAC Arts@MTR
  • Our City · Our Vision — 2018–2019 Ink Long March Project

2018

  • JCCAC Festival 2018 Factory Forward — Group Exhibition
  • Fine Art Asia 2018 & Ink Asia 2018

2017

  • JCCAC Festival 2017 NEWS

2016

  • We Gain; We Lose — A Multidisciplinary Art Festival

2015

  • Love · Love · Freehand Drawing — Hong Kong Ink Art Researching Association Exhibition

2014

  • Fresh Trend 10th Anniversary Art Graduates Joint Exhibition
  • The Art of CUHK 2014 — Undergraduate Graduation Exhibition
  • Stimulation & Assimilation — Group Exhibition

Awards

2014

  • Mr. Y. S. Hui Memorial Scholarship

2013

  • Mr. Y. S. Hui Memorial Scholarship
  • Friends of the Art Museum Prize
  • Professor Tseng K’e-tuen Chinese Poetry & Calligraphy Award
  • Mr. James Ivy Memorial Scholarship

2012

  • Au Kin Kung Memorial Calligraphy Competition — 2nd Runner-up
  • Van I-Pong Chinese Art Award
《小調》 Minor Key
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《飆沙》 Desert Rush
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《特寫》 Close-Up
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《風中的絲巾》 Scarf in the Wind
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《也許沒有未來神話》 Perhaps There Is No Future Myth
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《翻白眼》 Eye Roll
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《大翻白眼》 Big Eye Roll
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