Yan Ru CHEN

Chen Yan-Ru (b. 1984, Yilan, Taiwan)

【About Chen Yan-Ru】

I was fed and grown in a place with ambiguity and uncertainty. It’s an unknown status, however I believe this is where a place that the imagination begins. Chen Yan Ru, a Taiwan artist born in 1984 and loves painting. He decided that painting is his vocation since 2010. His works are based on contemporary daily livings, modern cultures and the histories of art. The contemporary life is fast and montaged by fragments of moments. Therefore he compressed the painting as points, lines and areas. His works is like the relives which created by the areas. He is obsessed with the relationships of appreciation between his works and their viewers. You can find this trait in his series of “Little Landscapes”. He intentionally appropriated the specific parts of classic paintings in the histories of art and re-paint those works into the new ones. He wants his new works is hard to be defined as “creative” or “vintage”. He put a question on a plate to his viewers “what was I painting, or what did you see?”. He intent to stimulate the viewer’s reaction of thoughts by the conditions of contradiction in his paintings.

【Education】

2008-2012　Huafan University Department of Fine Arts MS degree, Taipei, Taiwan

2001-2007　National Kaohsiung Normal University Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

【Awards】

2013　「The 11th Taoyuan Contemporary Arts Award」Quality Award，Taoyuan City Culture Affairs Bureau，Taoyuan，Taiwan

2011　「Yi Lan Art Exhibition 2011」First Prize，Yi Lan cultural center，Yi Lan，Taiwan

2010　「GEISAI TAIWAN 2」Kashiwa Sato Award，Huashan1914，Taipei，Taiwan

【Solo Exhibitions】

2025    「Gracefully dance with panic.」，Helios Gallery，Taipei,Taiwan

2023　「Love, Fireworks, Mystery or Incomplete 」，Pu art space，Yilan，Taiwan

2020　「Historical Memory And Gaze」，Yami Art Space，Taichung，Taiwan

2019　「the Archaeology of Ancient Ways」，Hiart Space，Long Museum，

Shanghai

2016　「Little Landscape」，Bo Art Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

2014　「The Silent Embrace」，Kingcar Art Space，Taipei，Taiwan

2012　「Beautiful Construction」，Cultural Affairs Bureau New Taipei City，New Taipei

City，Taiwan

「I am happy, but you don't like me!!」，Banqiao 435 Art area，New Taipei City，Taiwan

2011　「Boubru」，Bridge Bistro，Kaohsiung，Taiwan

2010　「The dying scenery I remembered」，Air Navigation & Weather Services

Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

【Group Exhibitions】

2025    「Tainan Art Fair」，Silks Place Tainan，Tainan，Taiwan

2024    「Taichung Art Fair」，Millennium Hotel，Taichung，Taiwan

2022　「Deconstruction」，Cloud Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

2018　「Wonderland joint exhibition」，Modern Art Gallery， Taichung，Taiwan

「Asia Contemporary Art Show」，Cirginal Art LTD，Conrad Hong Kong，Hong Kong

「2018 Work On Paper Special exhibition」，Gallery101，Taipei 101 Office Building，Taiwan

2017　「A Letter from Future」a Group Exhibition by Showyourisland Artists

Group，King Car Cultural & Art Center，Taipei，Taiwan

「The Reflection of Floating Dream」，Cultural Affairs Bureau New Taipei City，New Taipei City，Taiwan

「Fractal Landscape」，b.LAB Art Space，Taichung，Taiwan

「Chen Yan-Ru & lin Kuan-Yin Dual Exhibtions」Youth Art Taipei 2017，Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel，Taipei，Taiwan

2016　「A Confused Vision」，Nanhai Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

「Youth Art Taipei 2016」，Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel，Taipei，Taiwan

2015　「The Power of Chinese character」，Song Shan Cultural Park，，Taipei，Taiwan

「Art Taipei」，Taipei World Trad Centerl，Taipei，Taiwan

「Three Artists of Chen」，Tsai Gallery，Changhua，Taiwan

「Old Sweet Hreat」，Lee Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

「ART Taichung」，Millennium & Copthorne Hotels，ART Taichung，Taiwan

「Continuing」，Yi Lan cultural center，Yi Lan，Taiwan

「Leadersheeps Artwork Exhibition」，BO Art Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

2014　「Art Kaohsiung 2014」，Chateau de Chine Hotel Kaohsiung，Kaohsiung，Taiwan

「Taipei Free Art Fair」，Huashan1914，Taipei，Taiwan

「In Circles」，BO Art Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

「Young Art Taipei 2014」，Regent Taipei，Taipei，Taiwan

「The Childhood’s Memory」，Taipei Cultural Center All Rights Reserved，Taipei，Taiwan

「HouShan Bi」，Cultural Affairs Bureau Yilan County，Yilan City，Taiwan

「Unhurried Rhythm」，BO Art Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

2013　「To Be Continued…」，YAMI ART SPACE，Taichung，Taiwan

「YOUNG ART TAIPEI」，Sheraton Taipei Hotel，Taipei，Taiwan

「Consciousness - Promised Land of Muse」，Art Mon，Taipei，Taiwan

「Worlds Apart Fair」，Conrad Centennial Singapore，Singapore

2012　「A little bit crooked」，Creative Taian，Taian，Taiwan

「Into the Brightening Interferences」，Minghsin University Art Center，Hsin-Chu County，Taiwan

「Post Garden」，Cultural Affairs Bureau Yilan County，Yilan City，Taiwan

「Dear，I'm Not Sure Yet.」，Keelung City Culture Affairs Bureau，Keelung City，Taiwan

「Post-Boyhood」，Minghsin University Art Center，Hsin-Chu County，Taiwan

「MADA」，Industrial Bank of Taiwan gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

2011　「GEISAI TAIWAN 3」，Huashan1914，Taipei，Taiwan

「A Collection of Consciousness」，L-Quandary Gallery，Taichung，Taiwan

「Shallow Meaning」，DOSLA，Kaohsiung，Taiwan

「GT#2 Winners Group Exhibition」，KaiKai KiKi Gallery Taipei，Taipei，Taiwan

「Co-Relate」，HuanFan University Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

「Nine Artists show」，Taipei Spot，Taipei，Taiwan

「M.I.T.–Make In Terrene」Wuxinchi Art Group Exhibition，HuanFan University Gallery，Taipei，Taiwan

2010　「GEISAI TAIWAN 2」，Huashan1914，Taipei，Taiwan