Chiu Ya Tsai Biography

Taiwanese artist Chiu Ya Tsai specializes in portraits. In general Ya Tsai paints cultural figures or people of the bourgeois class, including poets, artists and professors. These people are located in places of classical beauty. Instead of just representing the facial expressions of the models, Chiu Ya Tsai focuses on their minds, which are refined by their cultural activities.

Besides being a painter, Chiu Ya Tsai is also an active writer who has published numerous novels in recent years.

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2000
-Idle Indulgence in Objects Wears Out One's Spirits, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei

1998
- Kingstone Gallery, Taichung
- Why Not Go Touring by Candlelight, Lin & Keng Gallery, TaipeiHanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

1997
- One More Tour in Taiwan, Hanart Gallery, Taipei

1996
- Personal Retrospection, Hanart Gallery, Taipei

1995
- Ceramics by Cheng Tsai-tung, Ray Hughes, Australia

1994
- Till the End of the World, Hanart Gallery, Taipei Beautiful Life, Crown Art Center

1993
- Sailor and Box, Hanart Gallery, Taipei
- Peitou Romance, Hsiung Shih Gallery, Taipei

1992
- Taipei Oblivion, Hanart Gallery, Taipei

1991
- The Tour in Taipei Suburbs Taipei, Hanart Gallery, Taipei

1990
- Apparitions, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
- Cheng Tsai-tung's Recent Work, Hanart Gallery, Taipei

1988
- Ink Painting, Wisteria Teahouse, Taipei
- Yun-Non Teahouse, Taipei

1987
- Sherkat Gallery, East Village, New York, U.S.A.

1986
- Taichung Art Center, Taichung
- A vacant house, Taipei

1984
- Cheng Tsai-tung, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

1983
- Cheng Tsai-tung, Wisteria Teahouse, Taipei

1981
- Cheng Tsai-tung, American Cultural Center, Taipei

1980
- Cheng Tsai-tung, American Cultural Center, Taipei

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
- PicassoMio.com

2001
- Painter's Study: Cheng Tsai-tung, Yu Peng, Lin Chi-feng & Antique Treasures in the Study, Mulan Arts Company, Taipei
- Toward a New Image: Veinte años de Pintura Contemporánea China, National China Art Gallery, Beijing;Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai;
- Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
- Passion for the Good Old Days, Dimension Art Center, Taipei

2000
- Yu Youhan, Cheng Tsai-tung and Liu Guangyun, Ton Mall Gallery, Shanghai
- Golden Age: Cheng Tsai-tung, Yu Peng & Hsiao Chang-cheng, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai

1999
- Landform: Paisaje Contemporáneo de Taiwan, Taipei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

1997-98
- Feast of Mind, Buffet of Art, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei

1996-99
- Reckoning with the Past-Contemporary Chinese Painting, travelling exhibition throughout the United Kingdom, Portugal and New Zealand

1996
- A Contemporary View of Taiwanese Arts - Hanart's Choice, Hanart Gallery, Taipei
- Biennial, the Quest for Identity-Identity and Memories, Taipei
- Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

1994-95
- Man and Earth, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei