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Yichia Liao
Known for: 〈Summon Images〉〈A Kind of Spirit〉〈Red Couplets〉〈Inconspicuous〉
Yichia Liao an artist that practices photography and installation art is a significant figure in the field of Taiwan’s contemporary art photography. Liao’s fascination with time since the age of four has been the main reason for becoming an artist and embracing photography, a medium that has the ability to capture, dissect, and manipulate time. His artistic practice surrounds the relationship between time and the universe. In each series, he extracts a certain element of the world and probes its relationship with time. His early embracement of digital photography has enabled him to expand this ideology through digital manipulation. Having a vigorous background in analog photography and experiences in the darkroom he is highly influenced by modernist values. Yet he adopts issues and conveys his works in a conceptual and critical manner, resulting in an inevitable tension of conceptual and (extravagantly beautiful) subjectivity that coexists in his works which has become his signature style.
Solo Exhibition
2020
“A Kind of Spirit”, ASUS Arts Center. Taipei, Taiwan
2019
“Summon Images”, CYCU Arts Center,Taiwan.
2018
“A Kind of Spirit”, Saatchi Gallery. London, UK
“Inconspicuous: Yichia Liao’s perspective from 1978-1990”, UP Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan
“Red Couplets”, ASUS Arts Center. Taipei, Taiwan
2016
“A Kind of Spirit”, NCTU Arts Center. Hsinchu, Taiwan
2015
“Imagine…Do or Do Not”, UP Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan
2013
“Summon Images”, UP Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan
2012
“A kind of Spirit”, UP Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan
2011
“Red Couplets”, UP Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan
2010
“Inner-self”, UP Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan
2009
“New Root”, UP Gallery. Hsinchu, Taiwan
Group Exhibition
2023
Taiwan Annual, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
2022
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Formosa, Eslite Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2020
PhotoLondon2020, London, UK
Group Show “Summer”, ASUS Arts Center. Taipei, Taiwan
Moments: Group Show of Gallery Artsits, Hsinchu,
ONE ART Taipei, The Sherwood Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
ILFORD CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center. Shanghai, China
2018
Art Central, Central Harborfront. Hong Kong, China
2017
CSPE Photo Exhibition, National Taiwan Arts Education Center. Taipei, Taiwan
Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center. Shanghai, China
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
2016
Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center. Shanghai, China
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
Yichia Liao & Murphy Chen Photo Exhibition, ASUS Arts Center. Taipei, Taiwan
2015
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
2014
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
Art Taichung, Millennium Hotel. Taichung, Taiwan
2013
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
Art Kaohsiung, The Pier-2 Art Center. Kaohsiung Taiwan
Art Taichung, Millennium Hotel. Taichung, Taiwan
2012
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
Selected works exhibited in Advantech ABLE Club Gallery. Taipei, Taiwan
2011
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibited in the First Taiwan Photo Fair. Taipei, Taiwan
2010
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center. Taipei, Taiwan
2009
From tradition to digital—Eight contemporary photographers’ joint exhibition, Jazzimage Gallery.
Exhibited in Photo Taipei Fair, Westin Hotel. Taipei, Taiwan
Reviews & Publications
2023
Net gains! The best of Photo London – in pictures, The Guardian
Photo London – the photography festival at Somerset House ,The Times
Spotlight on Photo London 2023, The Photography of China
2020
Photo London Academy Publication “Special Edition 7” page 76-83, London, UK
2018
Published “Red Couplets” Photobook, Hsinchu, Taiwan
The News Lens, Taiwan
2017
Invited as the artist of Lensculture, Amsterdam, Holland
Yichia Liao from UP Gallery Speaks to PHOTOFAIR, Shanghai, China
Published “Summon Images” Photobook, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Awards & Collections
2016
National Chiao Tung University Arts Center collected “Flower Time-1”, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2013
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts collected “Cultural Mark-6”, Taichung, Taiwan
