Chiu Wei-Hsiang 邱瑋祥 Taoyuan, b. 1997

Chiu Wei-Hsiang, born in 1997 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, graduated from the Department of Painting and Calligraphy Arts at the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2020. He currently lives in Taipei.

Over the past few years, Chiu has managed a nursing institution full-time due to familial responsibility, thus turning his painting practice nocturnal. His brushwork is rapid on Xuan paper and canvas, capturing everyday objects to preserve the immediacy of memory. Deliberately abandoning the conventions of traditional calligraphy and painting, he also roams in the margins of the art world. From a pure, almost childlike perspective, he summons the residual traces of lived experience. As he renders vivid imagery, the existences habitually overlooked by the society regain power. His work is both a cultivation of personal memory and a response to systemic social neglect; between the periphery and the core, Chiu continues to cultivate his own artistic language.

In recent years, the artist opened the exhibitions The House (2023) and Root (2024) at his ancestral home to transform vanishing geography into spiritual resistance. In 2025, his solo exhibition lâi-chē-chē was presented at the Fotoaura Institute of Photography, Tainan. His upcoming exhibition, Toil and Soil will open at gdm Hong Kong in September 2026; and his work will be on view at When Tomorrow is Forgotten in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei.