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Kao Chung Li

Kao Chung-Li (b. 1958) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.

Kao’s work investigates the relationship between history and personal biography, between time, images, and media. He is a photographer and a collector of historical pictures as much as a filmmaker, animator, and media-archeologist. “Taking a picture means an interruption of reality. Showing that picture means a cessation of fantasy,” states the artist. For him, the slideshow in particular sustains a tension between image, time, and stillness—and is situated beyond fantasy and reality, subsuming both photography’s indexical relation to past events, and the expectancy of cinematic time and storytelling.

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Kao Chung-Li: The Man with Film Projector, The Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, London, England

2011 Cinema Otherness of Cinema: A Film and Art Exhibition of Kao Chung-Li, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Kao Chung Li Solo Exhibitions, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 Kao Chung-Li - Watch Time Watching, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2007 Kao Chung-Li Solo Exhibitions: At Present, Artist’s Space, National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu,

Taiwan

2001 Story in Image and Sound, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1983 Personal Photographic Exhibition at American Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Group Exhibitions

2018 Re-Base: When Experiments Become Attitude, Taiwan Contemporary Culture, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, Chi-Wen Gallery, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

2016 Negative Horizon, 2016 The 5th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

The Silver Halide Era - Aura of Times Vintage Photography Prints by Taiwanese Photographers 1890s~2015,

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung ,Taiwan

2015 REWIND_ Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2014 Vision & Beyond–2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, OCT – LOFT OCT Creative Group, Shenzhen,

China

Recognition System–2014 Kuandu Biennale, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

Art for oneself, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan

Art Stage Singapore 2014, Tina Keng Gallery, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

2013 PREVIEW BERLIN Art Fair, PREVIEW BERLIN Projects, Berlin, Germany

2012 Taipei Biennial: Modern Monsters / death and Life of fiction, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Art Taipei 2012, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Melancholy in Progress - The 3rd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei,

Visual Vertigo—New Works by Six Taiwanese Media Artists, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2008 Home: Taiwan Biennial 2008, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung ,Taiwan

Floating, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2006 ANIMA TED STORIES, LA Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain

A Moving Memory, Academia Sinica Lmstitate of Moderm History, Archives Building , Taipei, Taiwan

2005 Variation Xanadu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

The Spectre of Freedo, 51th Venice Biennial, Taiwan Pavilion, Venice, Italy

2004 Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, U.S.A

Public /Private /Tumatanui /Tumataiti, The 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

2003 Contemporary Chinese Art: Subversion and Poetry, Culturgest, uma casa do mundo, Lisbon, Portugal

2002 Great Theatre of the World, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1999 The Living Clay 5 Exhibition, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Asian View – Asia in Transition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

1994 Contemporary Photographers: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan Joint Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong