Yao Jui-Chung 姚瑞中 (b. 1969)

While Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-Chung is well known for his works on paper and canvas, he also experiments with photography and videos, installation work, performance art and sculptures. He is also a writer, critic, curator and art historian. This versatility has contributed to artworks that are innovative, visually arresting and intellectually provocative.

Yao is known for giving a contemporary treatment, like bright colours or digitised appearances, to classical landscapes and other traditional masterpieces of Chinese art history. His work is found in renowned institutions and private collections, including the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Collection at Cornell University in New York, the Bibliothèque National de France in Paris and the Seoul Museum of Art.

He is an associate professor at National Taiwan Normal University’s Department of Fine Arts. He is also on the board of directors of Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation.