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FANG Yen Hsiang was born 1981 in Taipei City, currently lives and works in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. He is a curator, critic, writer, artist and researcher, now, he works as the assistant curator of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.

FANG participated in organizing artist-initiated space “Open-Contemporary Art Center” (OCAC) (from 2002) and “Pingpong Artspace” (from 2011), and launched the young art critics’ assembly “GAZE e-journal” (2011). He was the curator of Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2015-2017)

His selected curatorial practices include: Pingpong Artspace ‬“Post Office” ‭(co-curator, ‬2012‭)‬, Hong-Gah Museum “A Climate Fictionalism” (2015), Taipei Contemporary Art Center “Portrait Portrait” ‭(co-curator, ‬2016), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts / Display - Association for Research and Collective Practice, Prague “So Far, So Right: A Study of Reforms and Transitions” (2017/2019), Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts “South as a Place of Gathering” (co-curator, 2019), “From Object to Cosmos” (2021), “Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival” (curatorial team, 2021), and, Jogja National Museum “Taiwan Pavilion in the 16th Biennale Jogja” (executive curator, 2021).

Fang Yen Hsiang is a curator, critic, writer and artist who is interested in the dialogue between contemporary art practices and social movements. He regards contemporary curating and writing as a cross-disciplinary action of assembly, and his recent studies focus on the cultural production and the aesthetics of politics under the globalization situation.

• 2021

  “Taiwan Pavilion in the 16th Biennale Jogja” executive curator, Jogja National Museum, Jogjakarta, Indonesia

• 2021

  “Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival” curatorial team, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2021

  “From Object to Cosmos”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2019

  “So Far, So Right: A Study of Reforms and Transitions”, Display - Association for Research and Collective Practice, Prague, Czech Republic

• 2019

  “South As A Place of Gathering” co-curator, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2019

  “SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now” curatorial team of Kaohsiung Exhibition, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2017

  “So Far, So Right”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2016

  “It really, really, really could happen.”, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2016

  “Portrait Portrait” co-curator, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  “A Climate Fictionalism”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  “TCAC Screening Program”, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2013

  Co-organizer of “2013 Curating Now and Institutions Forum Series”, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2012

  “Keyword 2012: Asynchronous Lifeworld”, Juming Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan

• 2012

  “Post Office”, Pingpong Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2009

  Co-curator of “Mobile Man”, NTUE Wolong 24, Wolong 29, Air Defense Gallery, and Nan Hai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2006

  “Forum for Creativity in Art: Open-Contemporary: Systems inside Constructions”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2003-2007

  Graduate School of Plastic Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, MFA

• 1999-2003

  Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, Bachelor

• 2018-

  Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, assistant curator

• 2015-2017

  Taipei Contemporary Art Center, curator

• 2011

  GAZE Online, co-initiator

• 2011-2012

  Pingpong Artspace, member

• 2004-2010

  Open-Contemporary Art Center, member

• 2021

  Animalizing, Animating, and Interspecies Communication: Interspecies Politics in Wu Sih-Chin’s Works, Art Accrediting No. 96: Pan-Austro-Nesian Navigation Guide, pp.188-197

• 2020

  From Object to Cosmos (editor/author), Kaohsiung: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

• 2020

  Map, Route, Trail: From Chang En-Man’s Snail Paradise to redraw culture-ecological imagination, PAN Zine, #1 From Known to Unknown, pp.20-26

• 2020

  Portrait Portrait (co-author), Taipei: Taipei Contemporary Art Center

• 2019

  South as a Place of Gathering: Possibilities of the “South”, South as a Place of Gathering, pp.24-37

• 2021

  Group exhibition “2024”, Sin Pink Pier, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2020

  Online exhibition “Home to All”, Artfield, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2019

  Forum “20 X 20 – N+1 Imaginations for Public Art of Social Housing”, Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Group exhibition “ThaiTai Fever - after and before a meeting”, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2013

  Group exhibition “19991221 > 20130421”, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2011

  Group exhibition “Live Ammo”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2011

  Group exhibition “Don’t Brush Off What You See”, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2010

  Group exhibition “Green Label (, or its negative)”, Nan Hai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2009

  Group exhibition “Offside Play”, Pingpong Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2006

  Group exhibition “Forum for Creativity in Art: Open-Contemporary: Systems inside Constructions”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2006

  Group exhibition “Nue-propriété”, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan