Ting-Jung Chen (b. 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan) lives and works in Vienna and Taipei. Her artistic praxis concerns historiography and cultural-political semiotics, with a special focuses on collective memories, appropriation, empowerment processes, and political identity. By reproducing artifacts of the cultural industry, representing ideologies, and showing their relationships to human beings, the artist explores the transformation of identity and turns the overlapping, mingling cultures into a spatial atlas.

Ting-Jung Chen is the recipient of the DAAD Artist Program (2023), the MAK-Schindlers Scholarship (2019), and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize (2018). She has also been awarded various prizes, scholarships and fellowships, including the Visual Arts Scholarship from the Federal Chancellery of Austria (2020), the Visual Arts Grant from the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan (2020), the Judges’ Award of the Taipei Art Awards (2015), the Deutschlandstipendium (2015), and several other residency fellowships and project grants.

Recently, she has staged two solo shows—Harmonielehre and Wind Arrows on a Corner Side—respectively at TheCube Project Space and the Digital Art Center in Taipei. Her works have been exhibited in numerous venues around the world that inter alia include Belvedere 21erHaus (Vienna), Kunsthalle Wien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Honggah Museum, Parallel Vienna, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles), and 18 Street Art Center (Santa Monica, the U.S.).

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