PENG Hung-Chih was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He now lives and works between Taipei and Beijing. PENG graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1992 with the Bachler of Arts degree in fine arts. In the year of 1997, he obtained his Mater of Fine Arts degree from Academy of Art University, in San Francisco, California. Since 1997, PENG have held several solo exhibition in United States, Europe, and Taiwan. “Beware of GOD” is the solo Exhibition which PENG won “The 5th Taishin Art Award, Annual Visual Art Award” from Taishin Bank Foundation of Arts and Culture. The featured HD single-channel video installations of the exhibition are now in Museums’ collection; “Canine Monk- Unity of All Religions” in Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and “Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius” in Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Solo Exhibitions:
2013, “Post-Inner Scripture” Art Issue Project, Taipei, Taiwan
2009, “Propaganda” Art Issue Project, Beijing, China
2009, “God Pound” Musee Guimet, Paris, France
2009, “Two Hundred Years” IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2008, “Hung-Chiih Peng” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
2007, “Hung-Chih Peng” MIT List Center Media Test Wall, Massachusetts, USA
2007, “Returning Home After Making Good” AMT Gallery, Como, Italy
2007, “Canine Monk” Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York, USA
2006, “Beware of GOD - Hung-Chih PENG solo Exhibition” IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006, “Canine Monk” Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
2004, “Dogma” Eastern Connecticut State University Akus Gallery, Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
2003, “Peng Hung-Chih / Marco Scoffier” Goliath, New York, USA
2002, “Little Danny” O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Upper Austria
2001, “Gou-Dong-Xi” IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1999, “Eyes Drop” SOCA Society of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
1998, “Expansion Underground” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
1997, “ArToys” IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Group Exhibitions:
2014, “Taipei Biennial 2014” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012, “Project Daejeon 2012: Energy” Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea
2012, “Boundaries on the Move: A Cross-Cultural Dialoque” Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2011, “Everything Changes” DNA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010, “Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York” Museum of Chinese in America, New York, USA
2009, “Manimal” National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2009, “Art in Busan 2009: Inter-City” Busan Museum of Art, Korea
2009, “The Epic in the Everyday” PAN Palazzo della Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
2009, “Taiwanpics.doc” Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, France
2009, “Spectacle- to Each His Own” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2008, “Home-Taiwan Biennial 2008” National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2008, “Reflective Asia - The 3rd Nanjing Tiennial” Nanjing Museum, China
2008, “In Between - Asian Video Art Weekend” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008, “Outside In : New Realms for Taiwan Art” The Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University; Taipei Cultural Center, New York, USA
2007, “10th International Istanbul Biennial” Istanbul, Turkey
2007, “Taiwan: From within the Mist” Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada; Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center and Ransbury Gallery, University of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; The Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Georgia, USA; The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2007, “SCHAURAUSCH-Kunst in 50 Schaufenstern” O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
2007, “Remote/ Control” Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2007, “Inadmissible” HP Garcia Gallery, New York, USA
2006, “Beyond Beijing” Osage Space-Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
2006, “Double-Kick Cracker” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2006, “Ultra-Sense” Seoul International Photography Festival 2006, Seoul, Korea
2006, “Happy Believer” 7. Werkleitz Biennale, Germany
2006, “Taipei/ Taipei: Views and Points” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2006, “Age of Anxiety” Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006, “Juste un Trait” Gallrie Quang, Paris, France
2006, “War and Nature” Virgil de Voldère Gallery, New York, USA
2006, “Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai” Silpalorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2005, “Two Asias, Two Europes” Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2005, “Archaeology of The Future-The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art” Nanjing Museum, China
2004, “CO4-Petting Creature Liberation” Taipei County Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
2004, “Plug In-2003 A.I.R. Artist Group Show” Wha-shang Art District, Taipei, Taiwan
2004, “The Era of Contention: Contemporary Taiwanese Visual Culture” Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, USA
2004, “City Odysseys: Loosing and Lost” Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2003, “The Petting Zoo” Art Basel Miami Design District, Miami, USA
2003, “Revolving Door: iscp-Asia” Chamber Fine Art, New York, USA
2003, “Taiwan Art/Film/Video Festival” Lothringer13, Munich, Germany
2003, “25hrs, International Video art Show” The Video Art Foundation, Barcelona, Italy
2003, “Time After Time” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2002, “DREAM 02” the OXO Gallery and Barge House, London, UK
2002, “Gwangju Biennale 2002”, Gwangju, Korea
2002, “The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale” Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2001, “Display Wan-Chai” Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
2001, “Labyrinth of Pleasure-Childhood Revisited” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2001, “Passion 20” Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2000, “Spin City 2000” Wha-shang Art District, Taipei, Taiwan
2000, “Sister Spaces Project” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
2000, “Introduction” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
1999, “Entry<->Zoo” Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1998, “Thing-Made Things” IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1998, “Taipei's Backyard” Tsao-Shan General Chiang Kai-shek’s Villa, Taipei, Taiwan
1998, “New Sketch Exhibbition” Casa de Solo Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1997, “MFA Exhibition” Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, USA
1997, “Cultural Stomach” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996, “Spring Show” Walter/Mcbean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
1996, “Collision & Flux” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1994, “Wrigglers Show” Yuen-Lin Cultural Center, Yen-Lin, Taiwan
1993, “Humanity Exhibition” The Edging Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
1992, “Two Peron Show” Apartment 2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Awards:
2007, “The 5th Taishin Art Award” Taishin Bank Foundation of Arts and Culture, Taiwan
2006, “Swing Space Award” Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
1998, “SOCA Award” Society of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, 1998
1993, “Special Award” The 5th Taipei County Annual Arts Competition, Taipei, Taiwan, 1993
1992, “Oil Painting- Third Prize, Sculpture- Third Prize Graduate Exhibition” National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
Artworks
PENG Hung-Chih 彭弘智