Taiwan, Province of China

Artist Yin-Ju Chen interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilizing astrology, sacred geometries, and alchemical symbols, she considers human behavior, nationalism, imperialism, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations, and collective thinking. Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual, shamanic, and Buddhism practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness.

She has participated in many international exhibitions and film festivals, such as Shanghai Biennial (CN, 2023, 2014), Taipei Biennial (TW, 2023, 2020, 2012. *2020 edition touring to Centre Pompiduo-Metz in 2021), 'Exterior: The Science of Collective Consciousness' at Tate Modern Starr Cinema (UK, 2023), 'Close Your Eyes and You Will Know: Another Knowledge Is Possible II' at ICA at NYU Shanghai (CN, 2022), 'The Modern Exorcist' and 'Art Histories of a Forever War: Modernism between Space and Home' at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TW, 2021), 'Space Oddity' at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (CN, 2021), Gwangju Biennale (KR 2021), the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (RU, 2019), International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL, 2018, 2011), Transmediale (DE, 2018), Liverpool Biennial (UK, 2016), Forum Expanded at 66th Berlinale (DE, 2016), Biennial of Sydney (AU, 2016), 'Yin-Ju Chen: Extrastellar Evaluations' (US, 2016), 'Action at a Distance–Yin-Ju Chen Solo Exhibition' (TW, 2015), the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennale (CN, 2014).

From 2010-2011, she was one of the artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (NL). In 2016 she was invited to the residency program at KADIST San Francisco to work on her first solo exhibition in the US.

Yin-Ju Chen lives and works in Taipei.

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