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Shi Jin-Hua

石晉華

Shi Jin-Hua is a performance and conceptual artist from Penghu Island, Taiwan. He was diagnosed with diabetes at a young age and has since viewed his own body as a tool to express his spirituality in his art. SHI is a prominent figure in Taiwan's concept and performance art scene.

 

The "Pen Walking" series is SHI Jin-Hua’s foundational creative work, born from a moment of inspiration during his U.S. studies in 1994. Each painting is created using pencils and finished by sticking the shavings onto the paper, symbolizing the remains of a human body after life has ended. SHI's works are a testament to "physical phenomenology," which asserts that the body is both physical and spiritual, acting as a medium between the external world and his spiritual realm.

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石晉華,臺灣少數觀念行為藝術創作者之一,1964 年出生於澎湖馬公,現生活工作於高雄。由於患有幼年型糖尿病之故,從17 歲開始日復一日監測、紀錄身體狀態、注射胰島素,這些經驗迫使藝術家時時面對生存的嚴苛情境,他對待身體猶如一個他者與工具,透過藝術實踐映照出非凡的精神體積。石晉華在臺灣觀念行為藝術領域中,具有歷史性的角色,曾經多次受邀於臺北與亞洲雙年展中展出,作品典藏於澳洲白兔美術館、國立臺灣美術館、臺北市立美術館、高雄市立美術館、臺灣藝術銀行及富達國際。2017 年於高雄市立美術館舉辦大型個展「線-石晉華當代宗教藝術展」。

1964 Penghu

Currently lives and works at Kaohsiung

Education

1994-1996   M.F.A., Studio Art Department, University of California at Irvine, USA

1986-1990   B.F.A., Fine Art Department, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

  

Solo Exhibition 

2022Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan2021

Shi Jin-Hua Solo Exhibition, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan

2019

Homage to Masters, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2017

LINES - Shi Jian-Hua's Contemporary Religious Art, curated by Chen Hung-Hsing, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Two Trees and A Mountain, TKG+ Projects, Taipei, Taiwan

2016   

I Try, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014       

Unceasing Reincarnation, Show Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2013       

Indexing the Moon, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Launching Ceremony of Shi Jian-Hua's Album and Art Today on View, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2012       

Bodhi Project Midway-Shi Jinhau X Bodhi Trees Documenta, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan / National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

2011       

Shi Jin-Hua Solo Exhibition – Pass Through a Year, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2010       

The Trilogy of Contemporary Art Alchemy, Inart Space, Tainan, Taiwan

2008

Pen Walking, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Relative Measurement, Kuandu Biennale, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Living Beyond Measurement, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2005

Jokes Project, Art Center, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

2000

Pencil Walker-The Performance and Documentation of Shi, Jin-Hua, Hua-Shan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan

1996

Watch Steps, The Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA

1993

Hsiung -Shih Project, It-park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

The Age of Disturbance, Doors Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

1992

Money for Nothing, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Selected Group Exhibition and Performance

2023   Figurative Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2023 Hengshan Calligraphy Biennial: Era of Principle and No Principle Interwoven—Calligraphy as a Visual Form, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Aging: A Life Montage, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

2022

Walking the Crack, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Transistors, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Variation: A Group Show of Contemporary Artists, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Flowing Light: A Group Show of Contemporary Artists, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2021-2022

Post Experimental Ink-How We Create Art, Art Museum School of Fine Arts Nanjing Normal University

2021   

Collecting Classics-When Eternity Traveling Through Time and Space, Mr. Wing Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

2020

On Wings of Mr. Wing, Infinitely, Mr. Wing Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

Renaissance: Marina CRUZ, Rao FU and SHI Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Janus: ABHK Booth at MSAC, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2019   

Awareness & Transfinite: Awareness Art - Speech on Existence and Time, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Sports-themed Taiwanese exhibition Taiwan Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan; Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

Pencil Walker, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2018

Dialogue with the Nature, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Still Water Runs Deeper, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2017       

Power, Haunting and Resilience, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Self-Portrait, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, TaiwanEncounter with the Process, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2016   

Transition of Times: 20 Years of Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

The Road Not Taken Ch.1, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Half Drawing︱An Artistic Mode In Relation To The Drawing, Inno Art, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Teaching and Healing, Lucie Chang Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China

2015       

Revision: MSAC 5th Anniversary Special Presentation, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2015, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China

Body Art Stories - Marina Abramović and the others, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, TaiwanPencil Walker, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014       

Away From the Long Night, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Fragments Refining – Variable and Invariable of Contemporary Art, NCTU gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan

The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists 1961-1970, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

Body/Narrator, Silverlens, Manila, Philippines

2013       

Spring Trip - Contemporary Art Group Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2012       

Near East Far East – Two Points 2012, Parco Contemporaneo, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy

2011      

Medi(t)ation - 2011 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

The 9th Taishin Arts Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2010       

Utopia.Asian Contemporary Art Group Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Black.White.Gray, Sakshi Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Continuation: Special Exhibition of LI Chun-Shen Modern Painting Award Winners, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2009       

Chang-An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan

2008

Second Vision, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

The 10th Li Chun-Shan Foundation Visual Arts Award Works Exhibition, National Cheng Kung University Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Origin-The Way of Art for Pursuing the Nature of Life, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan

2007

2007 Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2007 Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Taiwan: From within the Mist, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, South Dakota, USA; Centre A, Vancouver, Canada; Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Illeges Gallery, Columbus State University, Georgia, USA; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2005

Trading Place: Contemporary Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2004

Past in Reverse – Ke Tsi-Hai Solo Exhibition, presented by G8 Public Relationship and Consultation of Art Corp., San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA   

Visa for Thirteen, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, USA

2003       

Beads and Strokes, Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China

2002       

CO2 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta.Overture: Ke Tsi- Hai Solo Exhibition, presented by G8 Public Relations and Consultation of Art Corp., Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan

Contemporary Art of Taiwan 1980-2000, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Art of Kaohsiung 2001: Art in Kaohsiung after the Lifting of Martial Law, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2001

Translation of Spirit, Cheng-Shiu Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

1996

Close Up, Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Taipei Biennial: The Quest for Identity, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1995

Of Ill Repute, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1993

New Art.New Tribes, Taiwan Art in the Nineties, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Art Fair

2023

Art Taipei, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2022

Art Taipei, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2021 

Art Taipei, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2020

Taipei Dangdai, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2019

Artissima, Mind Set Art Center, Torino, Italy

2018

Art Philippines, Mind Set Art Center, Makati, Philippines

2017

Art Basel in Hong Kong, Mind Set Art Center, Hong Kong, China

Art Dubai, Mind Set Art Center, Dubai, UAE

2016

Art Dubai, Mind Set Art Center, Dubai, UAE

2015

Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2014

Art Taipei, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2012

Art Taipei, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Art Hong Kong, Beijing Commune, Hong Kong, China

  

Award

2011

The 9th Taishin Arts Award, Finalist, Taiwan

2007       

Taipei Arts Award, First Prize, Taipei, Taiwan

The 10th Li Chun-Shan Foundation Visual Arts Award, First Prize, Taiwan

Kaohsiung Award, First Prize, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

1986

The 11th Hsiung-Shih New Artists Prize, First prize, Taipei, Taiwan,

  

Residency & Position

2012

Resident Artist, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

2008

Resident Artist, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2003-2004

Resident Artist, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City

2002-present

President, G8 Public Relations and Consultation of Art Corp., Taiwan

2002

Resident Art Group.G8 Public Relations and Consultation of Art Corp., Pier 2 Art District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2001-2002

Lecturer, Fine Arts Department, Dong-Hai University, Taichung, Taiwan

1994

Resident Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA

 

Publication

2018 

Lines - Contemporary Religious Art by Shi Jin-Hua, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2013

Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taiwan

2008 

Pen Walking, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

2005

Jokes Project, Providence University, Taiwan

1993

Money for Nothing, a documentation of solo exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Doors Art Company, Taiwan

 

Public Collection

White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

Art Bank

Fidelity Investments

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