Chin Chih Yang

Chin Chih Yang is a multidisciplinary artist. He studied at Parsons School of Design (BFA, 1986) and Pratt Institute (Master of Science, 1994). He currently resides in New York City.
Yang’s work addresses society’s efforts to protect itself, both physically and psychologically, against long-term catastrophe resulting from pollution, surveillance, isolation, quarantine, and religious/political/social intolerance. His interdisciplinary practice combines found materials, video projections, photography, and his own body to make interactive performances that spotlight ways forward. In an interview conducted by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yang said: "An indoor gallery space always reduces audience interaction to some extent, because viewers have to make their way to a particular space to see a work. I try to set things up so that people can interact naturally with my work, whether in a gallery or an unmarked public setting—to best reach people and communicate something."
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Yang’s work addresses society’s efforts to protect itself, both physically and psychologically, against long-term catastrophe resulting from pollution, surveillance, isolation, quarantine, and religious/political/social intolerance. The modern world, as Yang conceives it, is a graduated mixture of anxiety and entrancement. 21st-century products can do wondrous things, but producers and consumers alike wantonly discard waste. He explores such short-sighted practices by combining found materials, video projections, performance, and his own body to make art that spotlights ways forward. He likes to collaborate with other artists to create work which deals with the issues affecting individuals and, by extension, specific communities as well as society at large. Incorporating a touch of irony, his art helps us become better acquainted with the frightening side of human nature, signaling experimental and creative ways to view the planet and ourselves.
Selected Performances and Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions/Projects
2014 “Reconstruction IV”, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Taiwan
2014 “Kill Me or Change” at Art Collect Iran, Iran
2013 “Invisible love and beauty” at Queens Museum of Art Reopening, NYC
2013 “The Millennial Master of Love”, Panoply Performance Laboratory, NYC
2013 “Reconstruction III”, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Taiwan
2013 “Prayer Interactive with the Art Flock Launch”, CUE Art Foundation, NYC
2012 “Kill Me or Change”, The Queens Museum of Art, NYC
2012 “Mathematics of Light”, Bridges 2012 Int’l Conference, Towson University, MD
2012 “Breathing” (commissioned installation), Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 “Building a Future Human”, The Armory Week, Harvestworks, NYC
2011 “Human Earthquake”, Wall Street, Time Square, Union Square, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2011 “Love for Japan from US”, Rockefeller Center and Union Square Park, NYC
2011 “Project Room”, Butter Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 “123 Pollution Solution 2010”, Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
2010 “My New Job”, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY
2010 “Prayer for Haiti” (interactive performance), Consulate General of Haiti, NYC
2009 “Carry Water I, II, III”, NY Biennale Art, NYC
2009 “Burning Ice”, Union Square Park, NYC
2009 “123PollutionSolution IV”, Union Square Park, NYC
2008-2009 “Pray for World Peace”, roving multimedia projection, NYC
2008 “American is looking...” (performance/installation) Wall Street/Broadway, NYC
2008 “1,000 years” (human sculpture/interactive installation) Union Square Park, NYC
2008 “The Secret of XS”(installation/performance/video projection) Tribes Gallery, NYC
2008 “UN for Taiwan Flag Project,” Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, NYC/Taipei
2007 “Memory Ceremony & Rebirth”, Ralph Bunche Park, NYC
2007 “When Perfidy Meets Virtue” United Nations, Consulate General of China, NYC
2007 “123PollutionSolution” (video installation) Fort Lee Community Center, NJ
2007 “123PollutionSolution” (video installation) Union Square Park, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 “Trash King” an interactive performance at Arteles Center, Finland
2014 Taiwanese American Artists Exhibition, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
2014 “Art pollution”, Gallery M-Mauersberger, Vienna, Austria
2014 “Recontextualizing the Found”, Anya and Andrew Shiva gallery, NYC
2013 “New/Reconstruction”, PSYCHLOTRON event, at Manhattan, NYC
2013 Lumen Festival 2013, Staten Island, NY
2013 “Pith Man”, Nanhua University, Chiayi County, Taiwan
2013 “The Grand Shop Opening, Panoply Performance Laboratory, NYC
2012-2013 Digital/Electronic Art Fellows exhibition, NYFA Gallery, NYC
2012 “My Brave New World + Mercy to the Earth”, Union Square Park, NYC
2012 “Pith Man” National Museum of Natural Science Botanical Garden, Taichung
2012 “My Brave New World + Mercy to the Earth”, Union Square Park, NYC
2012 “Taiwan Pith Paper”, Hsinchu Culture Bureau, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
2012 “Building a Future Human (Bodies)” - TOMORROW STARS at Verge Art NYC
2012 Performance, New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame Benefit, NYC
2011 “The Balance”, The Hive at 55 and ASI-Artists-10, NYC
2011 “Moving History”, moving video projection, Asian Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2011 “Broken Mind”, Art Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Byrdcliffe Residency, open studio exhibition, Woodstock, NY
2011 Verge Brooklyn Art Fair, NY
2011 “Aluminum Forest 2010”, Asian Art Center, Towson University, MD
2010 Miami Art Fair - MIAMI CIELO exhibition, Miami, FL
2010 “Protection”, Surreal Estate, Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Kill Me or Change”, LMCC Swing Space, Governor’s Island
2010 “Broken Mind”, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, NYC
2010 “Kill Me or Change, Passport to Taiwan Cultural Festival, Union Square, NYC
2010 “Coughing Earth” University of North Carolina, Pembroke
2010 “Going Green” Queens Botanical Garden, NY; Asian Art Initiative, Philadelphia;
Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA; University of North Carolina, Pembroke
2010 “Free Money”, Governors Island, NYC
2010 “Kill Me or Change”, Wassaic Project Summer Art Festival, Wassaic, NY
2010 “Housebroken”, Flux Factory inaugural exhibition, Long Island City
2009 “The War Against AIDS/HIV”, Queens Museum of Art, NY
2009 “1000 Years/Human Sculpture”, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn
2009 “Project”, Wassaic Project Summer Art Festival, Wassaic, NY
2009 “Secret of 101”, Figment 09 exhibition, Governors Island, NYC
2009 “100 Degrees”, Queens Council on the Arts/NYC Department of Transportation
Commission, in collaboration with Hector Canonge, Queens College, NY
2009 “Free Money”, The Chelsea Museum, Asian Contemporary Art Week, NYC
2009 “Other, OTHER II” - The Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery, NYC
2009 Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of Art, NY
2008 “Meditation in Contemporary Landscape”, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens,NY
2008 “2050” DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2008 “Contemporary Bird's Nest: Charlie Parker Festival”, Tribes Gallery, NYC
2008 “It's Not Easy”, Exit Art, Herb Tam, NYC
2008 “Outside in: New Realms for Taiwan Art”, Columbia University, NYC
2007 “Beyond Measure”, First Bank Gallery, NYC
2006 “Beyond Measure”, Taipei Culture Center, NYC
2005 “Two Man Show”, Tribes Gallery, NYC
2005 “Artists Strike Twice”, Chelsea Spark Café & Art Center, NYC
2005 “Contemporary Art”, Union Square Park, NYC
2000 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC
1987 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC
1984 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC
1982 Princeton University Selected Photography Exhibition.

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