Chen Hui-Chiao 陳慧嶠 Taiwan, b. 1964

Born in Taipei in 1964, Chen Hui‑Chiao is the co-founder of IT Park and a pioneering female figure in Taiwan’s contemporary art. Her practice spans installation, embroidery, spatial interventions, and archival work, using a precise visual language to probe the intersections of astronomy, technology, military, and human nature. Pushing minimal materials to their limits—needles, thread, roses, feathers, ping-pong balls—she inscribes sky, memory, and dreams, weaving expansive forms into layered narratives. Her works embody tensions between softness and resistance, fantasy and danger, desire and loss, and can be read as allegories of female awakening. Transforming sensory and poetic vision into a distinctive visual language, she refracts the emotional ties between art, everyday life, the body, and the spirit.

Chen Hui‑Chiao’s important international presentations include the touring group exhibition Inside Out: New Chinese Art (1998–2000), jointly organized by the Asia Society and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 4th Gwangju Biennale (2002); and the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007). Her key institutional exhibitions include Smile of the Skeptic at IT Park, Taipei (1997); Here and Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2006); Beyond the Tree at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (2012); Re-Base: When Experiments Become Attitude at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (2018); Affect Machine: Self-healing in the Post-Capitalist Era at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2021); and We Always Need to Create New Stories for the World, also at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2025).