YEN-YU, TSENG
CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ARTIST
TSENG Yen-Yu is a textile artist from Taiwan, Asia. Her talent shows in visual art with textile materials, as the form of tiny sculpture, textile installation and mural tapestry. After her recived MFA degree at Tainan National University of the Arts in 2015, she won the 16th Li Chun-Shan Visual Art Award in 2020. Her works were collected by Rothko Museum in Latvia and Lih-Pao Cultural Art Foundation in Taiwan, as well as selected in many international textile art biennial exhibitions. Also, Ministry of Culture, National Culture and Arts Foundation, National Taiwan Crafts Research Institute and Taipei City Government of Department Cultural Affairs had granted her to support projects, exhibitions, as well as Acció Cultural Andorra, Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. She was the residency artist at Akureyri Art Museum and Icelandic Textile Center both inIceland, Basque Bio-design Center in Spain, Faberllull in Andorra, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art and Maison des métiers d'art de Québec both in Canada, Jim Thompson Art Center in Thailand, Rothko Museum in Latvia, Environmental Sculpture Association Center and Hong-gah Museum and Wellspring by Silks Jiaoxi all in Taiwan, Lize Puppet Art Colony in Taiwan.
PORTFOLIO
2024, second-hand clothes from Red Cross shop in Akureyri, sewing thread, 30*28*8, 31*21*6, 20*20*7, 25*29*12, 22*25*9, 21*29*8, 18*18*6, 39*19*12, 36*33*13 cm
2024, recycle fabrics from Icelandic Textile Center, waste yarns after artist had woven from the jacquard loom, 36*25*14, 24*22*16, 13*13*6, 27*18*9, 21*16*8 cm
A portfolio book. Dimension: 21 x 200 x 0.1 cm(handscroll fabric), 65 x 18 cm(handout paper) Writer: TSENG Yen-Yu Photographer: TSENG Yen-Yu Translator: HUANG Hsiang-Wen Designer: SU Yi-Hua, CHEN Kuan-Yu, TSENG Yen-Yu Editor: CHEN Kuan-Yu Printing: Ching-Chee Fabric(handscroll fabric), Bochuang Graphic Arts(handout paper) Publisher: Kuan Culture ISBN: 9786269799824 Time: First Edition September 2024 Price: TWD 3,000 Support: Ministry of Culture
2024, old clothes and recycle fabrics from Basque Bio-design Center, second-hand clothes from the local charity shop”koopera”, advertising flags for Athletic Bilbao match, sewing thread, B: 41*17*12, 31*20*9, 51*30*18, 36*30*12, 41*20*17; G 1-4: 37*35*12, 39*33*21, 39*36*10, 53*40*20 cm
2023, Winnipegger's old garments, sewing thread, 32*20*9, 40*19*15, 50*35*20, 57*14*18, 43*34*25, 12*11*12 cm.
2023 Heavier than Rocks, collaborated with Hsinchu city cultural volunteers, Hsinchu City Art Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2023 Faber Andorra residency, La galeria d'art Taranmana, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
2022 Textile Knows-Local Fashion Collecting Project, collaborated with Shi-Pai Elementary School of Senior Academy, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
old clothes from artist's aging family members, sewing thread, sample from Jim Thompson Fabric brand, silk thread from Jim Thompson brand factory, two books of Jim Thompson from William Warren Library, 343*188*40 cm, 2022, installation
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