Education
2015 Berlin University of the Arts - Meisterschüler (Fachklasse von Prof. Dr. Hito Steyerl).
2012 School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Exchange Program.
2008 Taipei National University of the Arts - The Department of Fine Arts.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 “Ghost In The Sea”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan.
2023 “Too Loud A Dust”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK.
2022 “On The Faience Of Your Eyes”, LIUSA WANG Gallery, Paris, France.
2022 “When The Light Hits The Face”, Night School, Shanghai, China.
2021 “There Are Lights That Never Go Out”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 “The Chinese Museum F”, IN EXTENSO, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
2019 “The Power of My Smile ", Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.
2018 “I Will be Back”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
2017 “Resistance is Futile”, CAAC / Gallery 456, New York, USA.
2017 “Figure Flash Camera”, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016 “Modern Life is Dull”, NON Berlin Asia contemporary art platform, Berlin, Germany.
Awards
2023 Winner of The 4th Tung Chung Prize from The Hong Foundation in Taiwan.
2022 Shortlisted of 20th Taishin Arts Award from Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture in Taiwan.
2022 Shortlisted of Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary Short Film in Taiwan.
2019 Winner of LOOP Barcelona Video Art Award from Han Nefkens Foundation and Fundació Joan Miró in Spain.
2019 Shortlisted of Berlin Art Prize in Germany.
2018 Winner of Honourable Mention of Short Film from Spain Moving Images Festival.
2017 Shortlisted of 5th Huayu Youth Award from Huayu Art Center in China.
2015 Winner of Taipei Arts Awards’ Honourable Mention in Taiwan.
2015 Shortlisted of Kunstpreis der Leinemann-Stiftung in Germany.
Residencies
2024 DRC No. 12 The Changbai Mountain Art Residency, China.
2022 Delfina Foundation, London, UK.
2016 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Goyang, Seoul, South Korea.
Group Exhibitions
2024 “LISTE Art Fair Basel”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
2024 “Immemory", Keelung Museum of Art, Keelung, Taiwan.
2024 “Reflexive Image” National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, Taiwan.
2023 “The Oceans and the Interpreters", CCA + Yaba Art Museum/MAD House, Lagos, Nigeria.
2023 “Romantic Route 3: Falabidbog” King Temple, Hengshan, Taiwan.
2023 “Structural Stowaway”, Basis, Frankfurt, Germany.
2023 “Homeland In Transit” E-Werk Galerie für Gegenartskunst, Freiburg, Germany.
2023 “Objects Remind of You”, Taipei City Hakka Cultural Park, Taipei, Taiwan.
2023 “Meaning”, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China.
2023 “Simulacra of Real Life”, Hsinchu 241 Art Space, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2023 “8th RAVY Biennale”, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
2022 “72nd Berlinale Forum Expanded”, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany.
2022 “JUBILEE X”, HAUNT, Berlin, Germany.
2022 “The Intimate Revolt”, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China.
2022 “The Whiners”, Waleyart, Taipei, Taiwan.
2022 “Wish You Good Health and Happiness”, Hsinchu City Art Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2022 “8th Asia Now”, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France.
2022 “Taipei Dangdai Art and Ideas” LIUSA WANG Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2021 “One song is very much like another, and the boat is always from afar”, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China.
2021 “Transposition”, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea.
2021 “Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun: Trade”, Vernàcular Institute, Mexico City, Mexico.
2021 “The Currency Lab”, WoeLabs (Prime), Lomé, Togo.
2021 “Step Out of the Strange Light”, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany.
2021 “From Object To Cosmos”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2020 “The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea”, A+ Contemporary, Art Basel Online Viewing Room.
2020 “PostColonialPostFreakPostCardShow”, Deutsches Eck, Koblenz & Maschsee, Hannover, Germany.
2020 “Readings From Below”, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany.
2020 “Between Earth and the Sky: The Spiritual State of Our Times”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2020 “Stadium Creation”, Juming Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
2020 “Runaway World”, Gaotai Gallery, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
2020 “Meditations in an Emergency”, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
2020 “China⇋Afrique: Crossing The World Colour Line”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2019 “Sensuous Tua-Tiu-Tiann”, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 “Nuit Blanche Taipei”, Mirama Outdoor Screen, Taipei, Taiwan.
2019 “Berlin Art Prize”, Very, Berlin, Germany.
2019 “The Return of Guests”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
2019 “The Racing Will Continue. The Dancing Will Stay”, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China.
2019 “12th OSTRALE Biennale: ism”, Gedenkstätte Bautzener Straße, Dresden, Germany.
2019 “#WOD On Tour”, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
2019 “Kunstraum Berlin”, Germany Embassy Beijing, Beijing, China.
2019 “Yellow Reflection”, LIUSA WANG Gallery, Paris, France.
2018 “Crush”, Para Site, Hong Kong, China.
2018 “Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
2018 “HINDSIGHT”, Gallery MEME, Seoul, South Korea.
2018 “68th Berlinale Forum Expanded”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.
2017 “5th Huayu Youth Award”, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China.
2017 “Very Period”, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017 “OSMOSIS”, Taiwan Power Company, Taipei, Taiwan.
2017 “A Chemical Love Story”, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China.
2017 “Beyond Freedom”, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong.
2017 “A Map of The World That Does Not Include Utopia is Not Worth Glancing At”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China.
2017 “The New Normal”, The Hangar- Umam & Dawawine, Beirut, Libanon.
2016 “2016 Taipei Biennial”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016 “Portrait Portrait”, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016 “Millefeuille de Camélia”, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
2016 “Micro City Lab”, Indie Art Hall Gong, Seoul, South Korea.
2016 “No Cause For Alarm”, La MaMa Galleria, New York, USA.
2016 “Flash: Image Left Behind”, MMCA Residency Goyang, Seoul, South Korea.
2016 “Run! Run! Run! Biennale 2016”, University College London, London, UK.
2015 “Taipei Art Awards ”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2015 “Kunst & Konstrukt: Kunstpreis der Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst ”, Westraum, Berlin, Germany
2015 “Through the Looking-Screen ”, Gallery 175, Seoul, South Korea.
2015 “Boys and Their Toys ”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
2015 “Meisterschuülerpreis des Präsidenten Auswahlausstellung”, U.D.K, Berlin, Germany.
2015 “10 Years of Palatti”, Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany.
2014 “10th Shanghai Biennale: Social Factory”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
2014 “Place an Image / Place in Image”, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany.
2014 “DUMMIES” with Schwanzo Kollektiv, Modena, Italy.
2013 “Palatti Schopf”, Ledi - Die Wanderbühne, Oberegg, Switzerland.
2013 “Modifications”, ZK/U Center For Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, Germany.
2013 “Von Wolkenkratzern, Flugzeugen un Vögeln”, Galerie Genscher, Hamburg, Germany.
2013 “MACHT KUNST”, Alten Münze, Berlin, Germany.
2012 “Post - Office 2”, PINGPONG Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan.
2012 “Taiwan Biennial”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2012 “F - Stop”, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.
2012 “Book-Like Object”, tamtamART, Berlin, Germany.
2012 “Refugium”, DIE ARBEIT atelier and showroom, Berlin, Germany.
2012 “Post-Office”, PINGPONG Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan.
2012 “Tasten Spiele”, Musikinstrumenten Museum, Berlin, Germany.
2012 “Salon Schwarzenberg”, Neurotitian, Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2012 “Das WOHNUNGSPROJEKT”, COLLETTIVO CAZZO, Berlin, Germany.
2011 “Teken Complete !”, Edinburg, England.
2011 “Bridges and Barriers”, U.D.K, Berlin, Germany.
2011 “Die Leistungsschau”, Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany.
2009 “POST.O : The Reverse of TOPOS”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
2009 “Squid V - The King of Seafood will be Back Fighting”, VTArt Salon, Taipei, Taiwan.
2009 “Luminal Art”, Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan.
2008 “2008 Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival”, Seoul, Korea.
2008 “Sea Slug 2.0”, Na-Pei Gallery, Taipei National University of the Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
2007 “The New Perspective Art in Taiwan”, Taichung County Seaport Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan.
2007 “Melancholy On The Iron Wall”, Taipei National University of the Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
2007 “Your Turn ! !”, Nan-Pei Gallery, Taipei National University of the Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
2007 “The Games of King”, 8 & 1/2 Gallery, Taipei National University of the Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
Academic Screening / Public Lecture and Symposium
2024 “Complicit Images: Screenings and Conversations on the Matter of Images”, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, Austria.
2024 “6X6 Project”, Atelier Gardens Freiluftkino, Berlin, Germany.
2024 “Gbegbetopia”, Archive Books, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2024 “Etat Forum: The Technology Of Image In Asia”, Etat Forum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2023 “What About Skin Tones? Opening the Black Box of Lighting”, Interfilm Festival, Berlin, Germany.
2023 “Kontrapunkte: Focus China”, ON SCREEN/voices-Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2022 “JAOU Photo Encounter”, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia.
2022 “KASK Lecture: Musquiqui Chihying”, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Gent, Belgium.
2022 “Musquiqui Chihying in Conversation with An Van. Dienderen”, WIELS, Brussel, Belgium.
2022 “Punch Light”, State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2021 “ADAM Rehearsing (for) the Future”, Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
2021 “Practices of Rupture. Toward a reparative justice”, Archive Sites, Milano, Italy.
2021 “Empire Through The Lens”, Delfina Foundation, London, UK.
2021 “I Could Not Recall How I Got Here”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK.
2021 “Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun: Trade”, Vernàcular Institute, Mexico City, Mexico.
2020 “Black Light”, Arsenal-Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, Germany.
2020 “13th Shanghai Biennale–*A* Wet-Run Rehearsal”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
2020 “Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red Internationalism”, OCAT, Shenzhen, China.
2019 “Gazing From The Sinosphere: Media Art As Border Crossings”, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
2019 “Spinning Triangles: Ignition of School of Design”, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2019 “Screening German Colonial Violence”, University College London, London, UK.
2019 “Projection-Rencontre: Café Togo & Soleil O”, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France.
2019 “Burden of Memory: Considering German Colonial History in Africa”, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
2019 “Café Togo”, Medienhaus, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany.
2018 “South of the South: Rhetorics of Geography and Imageries of Delinking”, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangdong, China.
2018 “Café Togo”, Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
2017 “Café Togo”, Iwalewahaus in University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
2017 “PHOTO TALKS 25: Musquiqui Chihying”, Lightbox, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016 “Zgodbe Zastrte Drugacnosti: Eksperimentalni Filmi O Aziji”, Slovenska Kinoteka, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015 “Lecture: The Restaurant”, Kontext-Labor-Bernau, Berlin, Germany.
2015 “Etat Forum: Artist Talk #7 - Musquiqui Chihying”, Etat Forum, Taipei, Taiwan.
2014 “Filmscreening : Die Nächste Generation V”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
2014 “ENTER”, Blockbuster Exhibitions, Berlin, Germany.
2013 “Al-mashaa or the Space of the Common”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Film Festival
2024 “18th Busan International Video Art Festival”, Busan, South Korea.
2024 “4th CineFest - Festival de Cinema ao Ar Livre em Viana”, Luanda, Angola.
2024 “8th Festival International du Film du Togo”, Lomé, Togo.
2024 “30th Film Festival della Lessinia”, Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy.
2024 “16th Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival”, Psarokokalo, Greece.
2024 “21st Vienna Shorts”, Vienna, Austria.
2024 “11th Riga Pasaules Film Festival”, Riga, Latvia.
2024 “30th International Short Film Week”, Regensburg, Germany.
2024 “36th Filmfest Dresden”, Dresden, Germany.
2023 “40th Kassel Dokfest”, Kassel, Germany.
2023 “65th ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film”, Bilbao, Spain.
2023 “15th DMZ Docs - International Documentary Film Festival”, Goyang City/Paju City, South Korea.
2023 “76 Locarno Film Festival”, Pardi di domani: Concorso internazionale, Locarno, Switzerland.
2023 “Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival”, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2023 “28th ifva Awards”, Hong Kong, China.
2022 “38th Shortfilm Festival Hamburg: International competition”, Zeise Kinos, Hamburg, Germany.
2022 “28th Encounters Film Festival: Encounters Grand Prix Award competition”, Bristol, UK.
2022 “36th Image Forum Festival: East Asian Experimental Competition”, Tokyo, Japan.
2022 “59th Golden Horse Film Festival: Best Documentary Short Film Competition" Taipei, Taiwan
2022 “Black, A Film Festival”, C-LAB - Taiwan Sound Lab, Taipei, Taiwan.
2021 “Topia Festival”, Frontviews, Berlin, Germany.
2021 “Territories Under My Skin”, Changing Room, Berlin, Germany & Goethe-Institut, Windhoek, Namibia.
2020 “17th Kurzsuechtig Short Film Festival”, Leipzig, Germany.
2020 “Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival”, Florence, Italy.
2020 “Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand”, Bangkok, Thailand.
2020 “Taipei Film Festival”, Taipei, Taiwan.
2020 “International Film Festival Rotterdam”, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2019 “33rd Image Forum Festival”, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 “Spinning Triangles: Ignition of School of Design”, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2019 “3rd International Safe Community Short Film Festival”, Mashhad, Iran.
2019 “7th BioBio Cine”, Concepción, Chile.
2019 “6th CineKasimanwa: The Western Visayas Film Festival”, Iloilo City, Philippines.
2019 “1st Diorama International Film Festival”, New Dehli, India.
2018 “3rd Busan Art Film Festival”, Busan, South Korea.
2018 “33rd Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival”, Belfort, France.
2018 “18th Short Film Days Flensburg”, Flensburg, Germany.
2018 “3rd Salto Independent Film Festival”, Salto, Uruguay.
2018 “3rd Spain Moving Images Festival”, Madrid, Spain.
2018 “8th Irepresent International Documentary Film Festival”, Freedom Park, Lagos, Nigeria.
work
The Alp
The Bedroom
The Cable
The Camera (16)
The Camera (17)
The Camera (36)
The Camera (65)
The Chat
The Cultural Center
The Dust
The Figure
The Gate
The Jog
The Lighting
The Link
The Looty
The Map
The Mask
The Postcard
The Route
The Sallow Man
The Sculpture
The Smart City
The Toyota
The Vitrine
collective
Bengawan Solo
Café Togo
Songs of SPECX The Currency-Sensing 01 The Currency-Vinyl The Gesture I
The Gesture II The Guestbook The Sallow Sea
exhibition
Ghost In The Sea Too Loud A Dust
On The Faience Of Your Eyes There Are Lights That Never Go Out I'll Be Back Resistance is Futile
Modern Life is Dull
The Alp
The Bedroom
The Cable
The Camera (16)
The Camera (17)
The Camera (36)
The Camera (65)
The Chat
The Cultural Center
The Dust
The Figure
The Gate
The Jog
The Lighting
The Link
The Looty
The Map
The Mask
The Postcard
The Route
The Sallow Man
The Sculpture
The Smart City
The Toyota
The Vitrine
collective
Bengawan Solo
Café Togo
Songs of SPECX The Currency-Sensing 01 The Currency-Vinyl The Gesture I
The Gesture II The Guestbook The Sallow Sea
exhibition
Ghost In The Sea Too Loud A Dust
On The Faience Of Your Eyes There Are Lights That Never Go Out I'll Be Back Resistance is Futile
Modern Life is Dull