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About the Artist

Shen Chao-Liang was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1968. He obtained his master’s degree from the Graduate School of the Applied Media Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts. He worked as a photojournalist and vice convenor for the Entertainment, Art and Literature News Center of the Liberty Times, the artist in residence at National Central University, Taiwan, and chairman of the Portfolio Review Committee, Young Art Taipei.

Shen has dedicated to feature photography since 1993, starting from his early works of Reflections of Nan-Fang-Ao (2001) to the latter series of YULAN Magnolia Flower (2008), Tsukiji Fish Market (2010) , STAGE (2011) , SINGERS & STAGES (2013) and Taiwanese Vaudeville Troupes (2016) . The collection of works focuses on the social landscapes and life conditions on the realities of the day, and strives through photography to formulate reader consciousness while at the same time fostering dialogue.

Shen won the Golden Tripod Award for Best Photography (magazine category) of R.O.C.(Taiwan) in 2000, 2002 and 2012, the Asia Award in Sagamihara, Japan (2004), the Dong-gang Photography Award, Korea (2006), the Artists Wanted: Photography Category Award, NY, USA (2011), and the IPA (International Photography Awards) 1st Place in Professional: Book of Documentary, LA, USA (2012), 2015 The Best Publish Award, Dali International Photography Exhibition, and the 2015 Wu San-Lien Award, respectively.

In addition to being published in journals home and abroad, Shen’s works have been exhibited in museums and art institutions in the United States, Canada, France, UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Peru, Brazil, Guatemala, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Cambodia and PRC China. His photographs have been entered into the collections of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Dong-gang Museum of Photography, and Sagamihara Gallery.

Curated events included the Photo Portfolio Review Program of Young Art Taipei, On the Cutting Edge: Aspects of Korean Contemporary Photography, Emerging Photographers in Taiwan, The Journey of a Lifetime–The Photo Exhibition of Chang Chao-tang, and the Yet Another Gaze – A New Horizon for Contemporary Taiwanese Photography. Aside from his endeavors in photographic creation, commentary and research, Shen currently teaches photography as associate professor at National Taiwan University of Artsy.

 

Education
2005 Master of Arts, the Graduate School of the Applied Media Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
1995 Department of Visual Art, Nippon Engineering College, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Department of Motion Pictures Production Program, The World College of Journalism, Taipei, Taiwan

Work Experience
2010.8~    now Adjunct Assistant Professor of  Tamkang University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and National Chengchi University.
2009.8~2010.7 Artist in Residence, National Central University, Taiwan.
2003.7~2008.4 Deputy Chief Photographer for the Entertainment, Art and Literature News Center of the Liberty Times, Taiwan
1996.3~2003.7 Staff Photojournalist for the Liberty Times, Taiwan

Awards
2015 Wu San-Lien Award, Taipei, Taiwan
2015

The Best Publish Award, Dali International Photography Exhibition
,Dali, China

2012 International Photography Award (IPA)(PRO) (1st Place, Book of Documentary Category) & (2nd Place, Self Published Category), LA, USA 
2012 The Golden Tripod Award, Best Photography(magazine category), the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2012 Artists Wanted:Photography Category Award Winner
(Year in Review 2011), NY, USA
2010 The Honorable Mention of 2010 Taipei Art Award, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 Dong-gang Photography Award, Dong-gang Photo Festival,
Republic of Korea
2004 Asia Prize, General Photography Festival, Photo City Sagamihara, Japan
2002 The Golden Tripod Award, Best Photography(magazine category), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan
2001 Bright Side of Society Award for photojournalism, Taiwan
2000 The Golden Tripod Award, Best Photography(magazine category), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan

Solo Exhibitions

2017

“STAGE”, Kwang Hwa Information & Culture Center, Hong Kong, China

2017 “STAGE”,  National Chiao Tung University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2016 “STAGE”, Taiwan Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “STAGE”, Cultural Center of Yunlin County, Yunlin County, Taiwan
2015 “STAGE”, College of Art, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2015 “STAGE”, Art Gallery of NCCU Art & Culture Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 “STAGE”, The Salt Yard, Hong Kong, China
2013 “STAGE”, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami,  USA
2013 Illusion Reality”, The Pier-2 Art Center B8 Warehouse, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2013 STAGE”, VVG Thinking, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “Illusion Reality”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “STAGE”, AJG Gallery, Sevilla, Spain 
2011 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao”, EPSON Imaging Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 STAGE”, Harbourfront Centre Photo gallery, Toronto, Canada
2011 STAGE”, 2011 Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, China
2011 STAGE”, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, NY, USA
2011 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao”, EPSON Imaging Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao, EPSON Imaging Gallery, Beijing, China
2010

Illusionm Reality-“STAGE”, Fotoaura Institute of Photography,
Tainan, Taiwan

2010 STAGE” AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 STAGE”, 2010 Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 STAGE” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2010 STAGE” Nikon Salon Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 The Everyday Minutiae: Shen Chao-Liang’s Photographs, National Central University Art Center, Jungli, Taiwan
2009

Reflections of Nan-fang-ao, Taipei American School Art Department Gallery,Taipei, Taiwan

2008 YULAN Magnolia Flowers, Taiwan International Visual Arts Center(TIVAC), Taipei, Taiwan
2006 STAGE, PLACE M Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Taiwanese Vaudeville Troupes”, Dong-gang Photo Festival, Dong-gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol-gun County, Gangwon-do Province, Republic of Korea
2006 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao, Green International Film Festival in Taiwan, Red Brick Hall, Yilan, Taiwan
2006 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao, NHCTC Artist Space, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2005 Happy Landing:-A Family Photo Album, NTUA Arts Center ,Taipei ,Taiwan
2004 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao, Taiwan International Visual Arts Center(TIVAC), Taipei, Taiwan
1999

Fish Market in Tsukiji: The People and Gods of Asakusa,
FNAC Photo Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan


Group Exhibitions
2017

“Power, Haunting, and Resilience”, Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

2017 “STAGE”,  ART SOUTERRAIN, Montreal, Canda
2017 “STAGE”, Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival , Tainan, Taiwan
2016 “STAGE”,  Taipei Photo, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 “STAGE” Taiwan Pavilion - EXPO Milano 2015, Milano, Italy
2015 “STAGE”,  Dali International Photography Exhibition,  Dali, China
2014  “SINGERS & STAGES”,「SINGERS & STAGES」,PHOTOPHNOMPENH,  Phnompen, Cambodia
2014  “STAGE”, Lianzhou Foto,  Lianzhou, China
2014

“STAGE”, Copenhangen Photo Festival, Copenhangen, Demark

2014

“The Other / The Distance” Cross-Strait Contemporary Art Exchange,
Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

2013 “From Subverting Reality to Creating Reality – Contemporary Art in Post-Martial Law Taiwan”, Asia Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2013 “Gazing into Freedom:Taiwan Contemporary Art Exhibition”, The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina , Novi Sad, Serbian
2013 “STAGE”, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
2013 “STAGE”, Belo Horizonte International Photography Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013 “STAGE”, 2013 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, UK
2012 Reality.Representation :New Acquisition of Photography”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 2012 Taipei Photography Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 “STAGE”, International Photography Festival GuatePhoto, Guatemala city, Guatemala  
2012

Into Society : Critical Realism in Taiwanese Photographic Arts since 1990”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts , Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2012 “STAGE”, Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2012 「STAGE」,2012 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA International Photography Festival, San Antonio, USA
2012 “STAGE”, Photoespana Descubrimientos PHE, Madrid, Spain
2011 “Asian Fictions”, Cultural Center of the Catholic University, Lima, Peru
2011 「STAGE」,2011 Ulsan International Photography Festival, Ulsan, Korea
2011 STAGE” & “Taiwanese Cabaret”, 2011 PHOTOQUAI, Paris, France
2011 “Flourishing and Flowing”, A Contemporary Art Exhibition across the Strait 2011, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China & National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2010

“Gazing The Coastlines”, LUOCA Gallery for Contemporary Art, Xiamen, China

2010 “STAGE” 2010 Taipei Arts Award, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 “STAGE” , Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, Tainan, Taiwan
2010

“STAGE” , 2010 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2010 “STAGE” 2010 Sh Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2010 “STAGE” 2010 Dali International Photo Festival, Yunnan, China
2010 “Youthful Stories”: Artist-in-Residence Photography Workshop Exhibition, National Central University Art Center, Jungli, Taiwan
2010 Rear Window” MOCATaipei, Taipei, Taiwan.
2009 Photo Taipei 2009”, Taipei, Taiwan.
2009

Exhibition of Taipei-Pingyao Exchanges of Photography Culture, 2009”,Taipei, Taiwan.

2009  “STAGE”2009 GETXOPHOTO International Photo Festival, Bilbao, Spain
2008 STAGE” 2008 Deagu Photo Biennale, Deagu, Korea
2006 The Era of Image Deciphering” the Asia Pacific Forum on Photography in Taiwan, the Society for the Photographic Education of Chinese, Taiwan International Visual Arts Center (TIVAC), Taipei, Taiwan
2006 Fish Market in Tsukiji” and “Reflections of Nan-fang-ao” Collective Exhibition of Past Golden Tripod Award Winners  for Best Photography, (magazine category), the Executive Yuan, Taiwan, World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan”
2005 Photographic Projec: Images of Dimension” Chiayi Art Festival on the Tropic of Cancer, Chiayi, Taiwan
2005 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao” Nikon Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao” Sagamihara City Gallery, Sagamihara, Japan
2004

Reflections of Nan-fang-ao” Works of eight Taiwanese photographers,
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi, China

2002 Asian Super Real Life” Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2002 Living in a City” 2002 Asia Photo Biennale, Seoul, Korea
2001 921 Earthquake – Records of Chungliao” the International Conference on Art Therapy Education, National Taipei Teachers College, Taipei, Taiwan
2001 Identity and Identification” 921 Earthquake Second Anniversary, Earthquake Educational Park, Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan
2000 From Traditional Photography to Digital Images” 3rd Taipei International Fotofest, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Records of Chungliao: Rediscovering Our Homeland After the 921 Earthquake” Eslite Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Publications

2017

Taiwanese Vaudeville Troupes”, Taiwan: Shen Chao-Liang

2013 “SINGERS & STAGES”, Taiwan: Shen Chao-Liang
2012 “Illusion Reality”, Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum 
2011 STAGE, Taiwan: Shen Chao-Liang
2010 Tsukiji Fish Market, Taiwan: Shen Chao-Liang
2009 The Everyday Minutiae: Shen Chao-Liang’s Photographs, Taiwan:National Central University Art Center
2008 YULAN Magnolia Flowers Taiwan: Shen Chao-Liang
2007 The Rise and Fall of Nan-fang-ao Theater, Taiwan:INK
2006 Dong-gang Photo Festival 2006, Korea:Dong-gang Photo Village
2001 Reflections of Nan-fang-ao, Taiwan: The Earth Co. Ltd.(Choice Company)
1997

Brand 9 - the Creative Ideas of the World’s Nine Best-selling Brands,
Taiwan: Rock Publications Co. Ltd.


Public Collections

2017

Selected images from the STAGE  series,  National Center of Photograhpy, Taipei, Taiwan

2015

Selected images from the STAGE  series,  Art Bank, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2013 Selected images from the STAGE series, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2011 Selected images from the YULAN Magnolia Flowers series, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Selected images from the Reflections of Nan-fang-ao series, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2006 Selected images from theTaiwanese Vaudeville Troupes series, Dong-gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol-gun County, Gangwon-do Province, Republic of Korea
2004 Selected images from the Reflections of Nan-fang-ao series, Sagamihara City Gallery, Sagamihara, Japan
2001 Selected images from the 921 Earthquake – Records of Chungliao series, Earthquake Educational Park, Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan