Hou I-Ting
Born in 1979 in Kaohsiunga, Taiwan.
Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
Hou I-Ting received a degree from the Taipei National University of the Arts, and later obtained a MFA degree in plastic arts at the Tainan National University of the Arts.
Combining embroidery with digital images and video are Hou’s main medium, her works express the possibilities of image art through variable mediums. She has been profoundly explored the female labor condition under social and economic system from past to today. Her works often feature the human body in the changing days like today. Through her practice, She tries to expand the discussion of body field in a broader way. The body under the social society in public indicates and proves itself a field of history. She focuses on transforming onsite sewing performance (the labor process) to a culture action. In every piece of work, She intends to unveil the high degree of labor intensity, or to reveal a regulated body movement embroiders engaged in.
Her work can be seen among the collections of the Taipei Fine Arts museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
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| 1999 | Taiwan Woman's College of Arts & Technology, Tainan, Taiwan |
| 2003 | BFA, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2008 | MFA, Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan |
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| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2016 | Sewing Image - An Experiment in Hong-gah Museum Collection, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2015 | Sewing Field, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2012 | The perspective of Experience IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2011 | Complexing Body, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2009 | Image/playing, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2008 | Play with Factitious Image, Taitung Railway Art Village, Taitung, Taiwan |
| 2007 | Agency of Reality, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Cosplay, Butchart Contemporary Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Super Dirty Yoga, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2006 | Hou I-Ting’s Solo Exhibition, Wen-xian Painters House, Tainan, Taiwan |
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| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2018 | Auckland festival of photography, Silo6 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Meet Taiwan Contemporary Art at Twin Oaks, Washington DC, USA | |
| 2017 | What do you see? The Taipei Economic And Cultural Center, New York, USA |
| Obacco, Carpet, Lunch Box, Textile Machinery and Cave Men: the narratives of craftsmanship and technologies in contemporary art, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Off –Sit ,Istanbal, Turkey | |
| Citation From Craft-Taiwanese Contemporary Textile Art, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. | |
| 7 trans-phonies, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Faint Light, Dark Shadows, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2016 | Hieroglyphic Memory: Surveying Bangka Through Narrative Trace, Bopiliao Historical Block , Wanhua, Taipei |
| Open Studio, Tokyo Wonder Site Residency, Tokyo, Japan | |
| KUSO Poject, Donna Beam Fine art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA | |
| Chercher des personnes, des lieux ou d’autres choses // Search for people, places or things, Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada | |
| 2015 | FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA ,2015 Web Gallery, State of Texas, U.S.A |
| Returning Sight: The Fissures of Moving Image, TKG+ , Taipei, Taiwan. | |
| The Testimony of Food- Ideas and Food, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Wonder Women, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA | |
| Remember When It First Began - Manuscripts Joint Exhibition, IT Art House, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2014 | Preliminary Study: Repetitive Strain Injury-Technology, RSI-T (Part2), Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, LaFontsee Gallery, Fire Barn Gallery, Michigen, USA |
| Preliminary Study: Repetitive Strain Injury-Technology, RSI-T, SLAG Gallery, New York, USA | |
| For for for forest, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2013 | Ever After: Celebrating 25 years of IT Park, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| The Risks of Being Too Bright-sided about Gift Giving, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA | |
| Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Sommerreise, GlogauAIR Arts Project Space, Berlin, Germany | |
| Turning Gazes: Woman and Arts in Dialogue, Juming Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2012 | Light of women, Gwangju Museum of Arts ; Metro Gallery, Gwangju ,Korea |
| Near East, Far East, Forte Margera Parco Contemporaneo, Venice, ltaly | |
| SHContemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China | |
| Manifestation of Homunculi, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2011 | Creating Spaces-The 5th Anniversary of VT, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan |
| TINA KENG GALLERY BEIJING, Tina Keng Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| Mirror Border, 2011 Cross-strait Photographic Exchange Exhibition, LUOCA Gallery for Contemporary Art, Xiamen, China | |
| TWO POINTS Taiwan + China Contemporary 2011, Villa Benzi Zecchin, Caerano di San Marco, ltaly | |
| Post-Actitud - El Artecontemporáneo de Jóvenes Artistas de Taiwan, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México City, Mexico | |
| 70's, 30's Centennial Founding of Taiwan Photography Exhibition: Narrations from Accomplished, Taiwan Photo Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2010 | Feel/Felt-objects, Art Center National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Art of Mixed Media, Yuan Ze University Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan | |
| Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Vision2: The Future that Encompasses the Past－An Art Exchange Program between China and Taiwan, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| R/evolution II, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2009 | Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Non-Everyday: Hidden Force Fields, Hong-Gah Museum,Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Fusion Folks Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bo-Pi-Liao, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| PLUG IN Video show, Inart Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan | |
| Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Tunghai University Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| Unsealed Files: The 3rd Anniversary of VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Jam - Cultural Congestions in Contemporary Asian Art, South Hill Park Art Centre, Bracknell, UK | |
| 2008 | ART FAIR of 2008 Culture and Science, Huashan Culture Park, Taipei, Taiwan |
| SWEETIES – Celebrating 20 Years of IT Park, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Two Points - Chinese Contemporary, Palazzo Frisacco Museum, Tolmezzo, Italy | |
| FIB 2008 AICA TAIWAN, Fusing International Biennial, Changhua, Taiwan | |
| Second Vision, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| Fu.The Young Female Artists, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| Snake Alley, New York Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008, New York, USA | |
| 2007 | DIVA, Digital & Video Art Fair, Paris, France |
| Critics, Choice, Creators, Taiwan Multimedia Art–Association of the Visual Arts in Taiwan 2007, HuashanCultural and Creative Industry Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Very Fun Park II, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Scope, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Shell-ing, Micro+Playground, Taiwan Digital Art, Taipei Arena, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2006 | Excess, CO6 Avant-Garde Documents in Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan |
| The Artist Show in Kaohsiung, National Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan | |
| \^o^/ SIGHT, The Artists Carnival, Huashan Culture Park, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Kaohsiung Award, National Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan | |
| The Keywords, 20th Stockroom Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| 2005 | Chiling Lin, Art Space of Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Im Western Nichts Neues, 20th Stockroom Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| 2005 Emerge-New Artist Snow, Sly Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| City Net Asia 2005-The Praise of Slow, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Beijing – Exhibition to interflow, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea | |
| Skylight-open the new page, Eslite Bookstore, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| Wen-xian Construction Art Space to Set Out Again, Wen-xian Painters House, Tainan,Taiwan, Taiwan | |
| Mirror-Other and Difference, Yi-xiang Art center, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan | |
| Bitter Juice (ni-gei-li)-rhe 9th Group of Exhibition, Nam-chow old street, Yan-shuei, Tainan, Taiwan | |
| Not a Construction and to Oppose Enlighten-a kind of Lose One's Way, About Feel and Impulse, Contemporary Art Center, TNUA, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| A Notice of Power Failure –A New Read or Peruse, Xim-bin Wharf Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan | |
| 2004 | OFF - Group Exhibition, TNUA, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Welcome to Kuantien (on), The Freshman Group Exhibition of New Works, Fine art exhibition room, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2003 | About Fashion, An exhibition of 17th in Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2002 | Photography Exhibition, TNUA Performing Art Center, Taipei |
| Documenta - Group Exhibition, South & North gallery, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| An exhibition of 17th in Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Group Photo-Exhibition, Taipei National University of the Arts Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 1999 | The Young Designs' Exhibition, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
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