Yu-Chia Tseng

Yu-Chia Tseng (Chinese: 曾郁嘉, 1988-), a female young artist, was born in Taiwan. After completing the undergraduate study of the visual arts in 2011, she entered National Hsinchu University of Education for the M.A. program. In 2009, the series of her painting works “Puppet Notes” have been one of the collections at Union Culture Foundation in Taipei.

The latest series of the oil paintings by Yu-Chia Tseng is “Fairy Tale Wishes”. It is obvious for people to discover that the main character of the series is a wooden puppet without any facial expressions. The artist expresses adults’ wishes by displaying children's favorite goods. The puppet represents a male or a female person living in the dreamy material world—as a candy house or casino district. The series of “Fairy Tale Wishes”, like theater performances, the artist depicts them as gorgeous scenes of luxury. Besides, the dim background on the art works implies the unknown ending of the different stories. Living in the commercial-leading times, the artist would like to advise people to think and create individual values.

• 2011- Current student at M.A. Program of Arts Education and Creation Arts and Design Department, National Hsinchu University of Education
• 2007-2011 B.A. of Department of Visual Arts, National Pingtung University of Education Sciences
• 2004-2007 Graduated from Fine Art Program, Yangming Senior High School

• 2011 Kaohsiung Awards of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art
• 2010 Nominated in the National Large-sized Oil Painting Exhibition at Taichung Seaport Art Center
• 2009 Nominated as Best New Artist Award of Union Culture Foundation
• 2008 2nd prize of General Section of Department Exhibition, National Pingtung University of Education Sciences
• 2007 1st prize of Multimedia at Yangming Senior High School
• 2006 1st prize of Multimedia, Fine Art Graduation Exhibition at Yangming Senior High School
• 2006 1st prize of Ink Painting, Fine Art Graduation Exhibition at Yangming Senior High School

• Fairy Tale 1-2, 97x162cm, Oil on canvas, 2010
• Fairy Tale 2-3, 97x162cm, Oil on canvas, 2010

• 2011 “Adversity or Greasy: the group exhibition of 3 artists”, Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Pingtung
• 2010 “Sleepwalk: the group exhibitions of 3 artists”, Pingtung Museum of Fine Art, Pingtung
• 2010 “Threshold: the group exhibition of 7 artists”, Bureau of Cultural Affairs Kaohsiung City Government, Kaohsiung
• 2010 “The Group Exhibition of 13 Installation artists”, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung
• 2010 Touring Exhibition, Union Culture Foundation, Taiwan

• 2009 “Puppet Notes” (series of five 91x72.5 cm paintings) at Union Culture Foundation

• Powen Gallery (in English)
• Union Culture Foundation
• Wikipedia for Yu-Chia Tseng in Chinese Version