WU, Shang-Lin

吳尚霖

latest update：2021-12-31

Shang-Lin Wu, is an independent curator, visual artist and freelancer editor, lives and works currently in Taipei. After graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts (BFA) in 2000, National School of Fine Art, Dijon (DNSEP) in 2007. In the recent years, Wu has traveled and worked as an artist-in-residence in Korea (Gyeonggi Creative Center), Taiwan (Taipei Artist Villages) and Japan (Arcus Project), Thailand (Silpakorn University). The main message he would like to deliver through his work accomplished during this period, is to discuss various problems caused by the constant expansion of modern cities. By exchanging personal prospective with his interlocutors, he presents different aspects of the method each individual chooses to deal with the current situation.

Recent exhibitions include “Wandering Seeds: Moving and Migration – Stories from a Place to Other”, National Museum of Prehistory, Taipei Botanical Garden, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2018-2019 (curatorial project); “Rivers – The Way of Living in Transition / Asia Contemporary Art Links”, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung & Gwangju Biennale Gallery 1, Korea, 2015-2016 (curatorial project); “Twilight, The Prospects of Asian Industry, Korea, Japan, Taiwan Collaborative Art Project”, Howl Space, Fotoaura Institute of Photography, and Absolute Space, 2013 (curatorial project); “Inner-landscape / Damyang”, Art Center Daedam, Jeollanam-do, Korea, 2014 (Solo); “Inner-landscape”, O New Wall space Seoul, Korea, 2013 (Solo); “Graduation Photos – Difference is Different”, MoCA Taipei, 2012 (Solo); “Taipei Photo Festival”, Zhong Zhen Art Gallery, 2018 (Group); “Original Festival”, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, 2016; “Faux Amis – Une vidéothèque éphémère”, Jeu de Paume National Gallery (Concorde), Paris, France, 2010 (Group); “Rear Windows”, for MoCA Taipei, Taiwan, 2010 (Group).

Shang-Lin Wu started a series of curatorial activities of “Hot Spring Project” on 2012. It is a creation and sharing project which combines different disciplines, culture and borders. Through discussion, studio managements, curation and artist in residence we will try to think about the shifts of cities and environment under the globalization and technological developments. Hot spring and aspirin, which have similar pronunciations, represent different prospects of the project. Hot spring relaxes people and helps people reduce fatigue in a natural way, on the other hand, aspirin is an artificial way of healing which has antipyretic and analgesic effects. These different effects refer to the ways how art responds to the environment and heals people. Cities, which are massively growing up, hold the multilayered cultures of human being while threatening nature and environment. This immense growth seems to be following the technology which is constantly advancing. The situation we live in seems destroy the tradition and reproduce a habit repeatedly and rapidly, furthermore, people are intoxicated with this too much media-oriented society.

  • 2008

    MFA, Contemporary Art & New Medias, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, Paris, France

  • 2007

    DNSEP, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon, Dijon, France

  • 2005

    DNAP, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon, Dijon, France

  • 2000

    BFA, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

  • 2012-

    Hot Spring Project Studio, Director

  • 2020-

    Lecturer, Chung Yuan Christian University Program in Indigenous Culture and Design, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  • 2017-2019

    Lecturer, Department of Visual Communication Design, Kun Shan University, Tainan, Taiwan

  • 2016-2017

    Senior Specialiste, Department of Exhibition, Juming Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2013-2019

    Lecturer, Department of Applied Arts, National Defense University, Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2013-2018

    Lecturer, Department of Visual Communication Design, Taipei University of Marine Technology, New Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2021

    Dialogue, In between Islands and Ocean (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2021

    Mipaliw Land Art Project – Forest, River, Fields and Sea Wetland Art Season (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2020

    Art Takes Root – Note of Mipaliw Art Project 2020 (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2019

    Corssing – Korean Artist Sooja Kim and Poitier City (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2019

    A Closer Look at the Confluence of River – Observation of the 15th Lyon Biennale and Interview with the Curators (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2019

    Moving and Migration – Stories from a Place to Other (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2018

    What is Good Life? 10th Media City Seoul Biennale (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2017

    Art in Uncertain time: Unlimited Sector at 2017 Art Basel (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2016

    SEOUL MEDIACITY BIENNALE: Facing the New Century, The Anxiety and Whisper (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2016

    11th Gwangju Biennale – The Eighth Climate: What Does Art Do? (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2016

    The Hallyu in Contemporary Art – CONTEMPORARY ART IN KOREA-II (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2016

    The Hallyu in Contemporary Art – CONTEMPORARY ART IN KOREA-I (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2015

    Satoyama Art Banquet – 2015 Echigo-Tsumari Art Field (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2015

    Where We Come from and Where We Will Go? – Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015 (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2015

    Get Rid of the Constraints of Image and Identity – When I Become You, Yee Soo-Kyung in MOCA Taipei (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2015

    Rivers – The Way of Living in Transition, Asia Contemporary Art Links (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2014

    Silpakorn AIR PSG in Thailand PSG Resident Project Observation (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2014

    River and City Observation – Green River Project, Korea Taiwan Contemporary Art Collaborative Project (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2014

    Review the Common Experience of Modern Asian Nether World – SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul “Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers” (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2014

    10th Gwangju Biennale – Burning Down the House: Lightweight and Violent Transition of Aesthetics (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2014

    The Real and the Dream Meet – KYTA Residency Program in India Himachal Pradesh Collaborating (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • 2014

    ICHIHARA ART x MIX – Problem-solving Art Festival: ICHIHARA ART X MIX (Artist MAGAZINE)

  • Residency programs
  • 2019

    Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

  • 2019

    Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

  • 2018

    Guandu Museum of Fine Arts International Exchange Residency Program, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan-si, Korea

  • 2018

    More than Meets the Eyes, The Place Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan

  • 2016

    North Coast Art Field Festival, New Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2014

    Silpakorn University, Exchange Program of Bamboo Curtain Studio, Thailand

  • 2014

    Art Center Daedam, Jollanamdo, Korea

  • 2013

    Tamsui Historical Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2013

    Howl Space, Tainan, Taiwan

  • 2012

    Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan-si, Korea

  • 2011

    Taitung Railway Art Village and Taitung Theatre, Taitung, Taiwan

  • 2010

    435 International Artist Village, New Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2009

    Arcus Project, Moriya, Japan

  • 2009

    Toride Art Project, Toride, Japan

  • 2008

    Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2008

    National Goyang Art Studio, Goyang, Korea