Yung-Lin Wang Email & Phone Number

Canada

Specialization in video art, media art, global avant-garde movements, and art, science and technology. Columnist for Fountain (Taiwan) and The Art Press Asia and contributor to publications such as Funscreen/FA Journal of Taiwan Film Institute (Taiwan), Artco Monthly (Taiwan), Art Contemporary (Shanghai), Artforum (Hong Kong), Artist Magazine (Taiwan), Bark (Taiwan), Cacao (Taiwan), Art Plus (Hong Kong), Art, Design and Investment (Taiwan), LEAP (Beijing), Modern Art: TFAM Press (Taiwan), Not Today (Taiwan), and Quotation (Japan).Honours, Achievements, Grants, and Funding2017International Research GrantNational Culture and Art Foundation, TaiwanFor the investigation and research into the Argentine avant-garde movement of the 1960s, contemporary art spaces in Argentina, and current art movements in Kenya.2016 Curating and Research GrantNational Art Council Korea, Seoul, South Korea For a one-year investigation into Korean contemporary art and political history, focusing on their relationship to local art movements.2015International Research GrantTelevision Service Foundation, Taipei, TaiwanFor televisual research on art, science, and technology movements in the Netherlands and Belgium. Output featured in the Taiwanese documentary “New Media Now.”2011 Digital Art Criticism AwardDigital Art Centre, Taipei, TaiwanFor the article “Multiple Modalities of Sound—Chang Yung-Ta’s Relative Perception.” Excerpted in Digital Art Criticism No.1: Taipei Digital Art Center, 2012.

YUNGLIN WANG (b. 1983) is an art critic and curator who lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan, and Toronto, Canada. As a curator and researcher, Yunglin has organized exhibitions for museums, galleries, and art spaces internationally. As a writer, her research interests centre on global avant-garde movements, video art, media art, and art and science. Selected Exhibitions 2018 “Science Works, Bitches,” side project for Taipei Biennale 2018, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts2017 “Mille-Feuille de Camelia,” ARKO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea2016 “Video and the Third Person's Perception” (TASHIN Award Annual Exhibition Nomination), Heng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan “HitchPunk,” Unpainted Art Festival, Munich, Germany 2015 “Elle 70th,” Mitsukoshi Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan “We are all Cannon Fodder of this Epoch,” (TASHIN Award Annual Exhibition Nomination), Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan2014 “For For For Forest,” Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan “Weightless: Experimental Projects from the TFAM Collection,” Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei2013 “A Poignant Dance in Media History: Su Hui-Yu’s Solo Exhibition,” a.m space, Hong Kong “Mental-logue/Monster-logue,” SOKA Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan2012 "Life is a metaphor, you are the metaphor", Taipei Artist Fair, Taipei, TaiwanNomination and Awards

Toronto, Canada Area

Taipei City, Taiwan

From 2016-2018, she served as lecturer at National Taiwan University of Art, teaching two sections of the course “Art Theory and Criticism.” For this course I custom-developed the syllabus to include introduction to sociology, cinema studies, feminist art history, gender studies, digital art theory, and art criticism.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Polymer is an artist-run space containing 23 art studios, two exhibition halls and a theatre. Lead organization exhibitions of artists from Germany, United States, Russia, Taiwan, and Japan, as well as the 9th Taipei Fringe Festival, 1st Taipei Independent Art Book Fair, open-studio events, and conferences for the tenth Taipei Biennale retrospective. Also helped curate the municipal events “Surrounded with Music” and “Nuit Blanche Taipei 2016” and, by the end of tenure, successfully obtained grant funding from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture for the space.

Kaohsiung

Responsible for the 2012 International Taiwan Video Art Biennale and helped organize the following exhibitions: “Francis Bacon: The Tip of An Iceberg”; “John Thomson”; “The Deployment of Taiwanese Avant-Garde in the 80s”; and “Steel & Iron Sculpture Festival.”

Taipei, Taiwan

2009-2011Research Assistant, “Re-examination of Humanity Education of Taiwan”National Ministry of Education, TaiwanResponsible for surveying all the existing university humanities department in Taiwan, providing both quantitative and qualitative research data for the supervisor. 2010Research Assistant, “Taiwanese Film History”Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanResponsible for collating and writing introductions for all Taiwanese films preceding the New Cinema (1980-1990) and Second New Wave (1990-2010) periods. 2008-2009Research Assistant, “Lectures of Dominique Païni”Assistant for the film researcher Dominique Païni, former director of both La Cinémathèque Française and Cultural Development of Le Centre Georges-Pompidou. Arranged and promoted a series of lectures regarding cinematic and visual art. Collated and translated Païni’s publications for FA Journal of Taiwanese Film Institute.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Master Of Arts (Ma), Art History, Criticism And Conservation

Activities and Societies: an nominee by Digital Art criticism award While she was taking her M.A program in National Taipei University.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), French Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Indie-Music club She was awarded with a exchange student program in France and she studied in Université de.

Bachelor'S Degree, French Language And Literature