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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.

Education
1979	National Taiwan Academy of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

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
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, Taiwan
	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	About Fashion, An graduation exhibition of 17th in Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2002	Photography Exhibition, Performing Art Center, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	Documenta - Group Exhibition, South & North Gallery, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	An graduation exhibition of 17th in Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
	Group Photo-Exhibition, Performing Arts Center, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
1999	The Young Designs' Exhibition, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan