Photographer林家賢
Kai
江凱群 (formerly Kaichun Chiang)
An artist exploring human emotion, community and curiosity, shaped by lived experiences across Taiwan, France, and the United States.
Educations
Solo and Dual Exhibitions
Group exhibitions and Festivals
Grants and prizes
Collections
- 2015 Le Fresnoy, Studio National des arts contemporains, France
- 2013 MFA,École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris - Cergy, France
- 2007 Bachelor,Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
Solo and Dual Exhibitions
- 2024 Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Fine Arts, from November to December, 2024, Taipei
- 2024 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine arts, from September to October, 2024, Taiwan
- 2022 Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, solo exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2018 Chiang Kai-Chun & Patrick Muller dual exhibition, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
- 2016 Kuan-Du Museum of Fine Arts, Third Person Traveler, solo show, Taipei, Taiwan
Group exhibitions and Festivals
- 2022 Hualien Art Exhibition, Hualien County Government, Hualien, Taiwan
- 2022 Messengers: Taipei Artist Village (TAV) and Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) -The Letter Project, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
- 2021 Taipei Fashion Week, Artist show, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2019 Asian Art Biennial, The Strangers from Beyond the Mountain and the Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
- 2019 Dualities—Designer Sophie Hong, AUP Fine Arts Gallery, the American University of Paris, Paris, France
- 2018 Chinese Contemporary Artist Tam Exhibition of nominated, Today Art Museum, Beijing
- 2017 Tobacco, Carpet, Lunch Box, Textile Machinery and Cave Men: the narratives of craftsmanship and technologies in contemporary art, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
- 2017 Taipei Art Awards, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
- 2017 Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), Artist Open studio & Film projection, Tokyo, Japon
- 2017 Invisible Cities- Moving Images from Asia, Dallas Contemporary, Texas, USA
- 2017 Cycle Là où va le cinéma, MK2 Beaubourg, Paris, France
- 2016 Interpreting Brooklyn, solo exhibition at El Museo de Los Sures, New York
- 2016 Flux Factory, Chiang Kai-Chun Solo retrospective projection, New York
- 2016 Ma Samaritaine, group exhibition, la Samaritaine, Paris, France
- 2016 Taipei Biennale, Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan
- 2016 Panoramiques, 3 ans de création au Fresnoy, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris
- 2015 Panorama 17, Techniquement Douce, Le Fresnoy, France
- 2015 Glasgow International Short Film Festival, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- 2015 FIPA, International Audiovisuel Programmes Festival, Biarritz, France
- 2014 Animatou, International Animation Film Festival, Geneva
- 2014 Panorama 16, Solus Locus, Le Fresnoy, Studio national, France
- 2014 C(air)n, Frédéric Moisan gallery, Taipei Cultural Center in Paris, France
Grants and prizes
- 2026 Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship.
- 2018 Wang Shi-kuo Foundation Contemporary Art Award, Beijing. China
- 2017 Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taïwan
- 2017 Project grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taïwan
- 2017 Artist scholarships, The Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government, Taïwan
- 2016 Artist scholarships, Taipei Cultural Center in New York, and Ministry of Culture of Taiwan
- 2016 Fine Art Exhibition Fellowships, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
- 2015 International Artist Program Fellowships, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taïwan
- 2015 New Talent, FIPA, International Audiovisuel Programmes Festival, Biarritz, France
- 2014 Artist Project Fellowships, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Paris, France
- 2014 Hakka Affairs Council, Taipei, Taïwan
- 2012 France-Asia Foundation scholarships, Paris, France
- 2012 Artist Project Fellowships, Cloud Gate Dance Foundation, Taipei, Taïwan
- 2011 Contemporary Art Foundation, Taipei, Taïwan
- 2017 Artiste invité pour l’atelier d’handicap mental, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris
- 2017 Artist in Residency, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), Japon
- 2016 Residency Unlimited Brooklyn, New York
- 2016 Flux Factory, New York
- 2015 Résidence Composition, Poitiers film Festival, Poitiers, France
- 2012 Madaba Mosaic Arts School, Jordanie
Collections
- Art Bank Taiwan
- La Samaritaine Paris
- Private collection, New York
- Private collection
This information introduces the work on Chiang Kai-Chun’s participation in social arts education. Chiang’s experience and spirit motivated Chiang’s research of socially engaged art. For example, school-promoted social art education, community cooperation, building art environments friendly to older people, cooperation between crafts and medical treatment institutions, etc., Works are arranged chronologically.
Organization(s): TNUA Fine Arts Department, Hualien Archeological Museum. Description: This activity is a university course in service learning. Taught by Chiang, the course content is the Fine Arts Department’s public service. Chiang leads students to the Hualien Archeological Museum in Fengtian, Hualien, to participate in community-building in non-metropolitan areas and guides students and the community in establishing historical relationships and enhancing their communication abilities. This course leads students, community arts organizations, and community members in achieving substantive connections.
Organization(s): Hualien County Cultural Affairs Bureau
Description: Regional revitalization based on the development of art, regional studies, and interpersonal relationships. The problem with Hualien’s remote communities is that young people have no concept of social design when they enter the community. This project blended the arts and community cooperation, led workshops, and facilitated arts education in village schools.
Organization(s): Ministry of Education and National Taiwan Arts Education Center, partially subsidized by the Ministry of Education.
Description: This is social arts educational content specially designed for people, not from the realm of arts professionals. Financed by the Ministry of Education, the content concerned cultural heritage education of old street housing. Chiang was responsible for the digital tour’s design and planning, using digital technology to promote historical architecture through exhibitions, 360-degree video, and AR. This project was a National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Social Responsibility Project.
Organization(s): Paris Museum of Modern Art and the French charity Entreprendre pour Aider, sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.
Description: The Paris Museum of Art invited Chiang to design and execute an animation workshop for people with disabilities. This workshop used creative drawing techniques (paper, photography, photocopy paper, paint, found objects, and video photography) to create a two-dimensional animation collectively. For this course, Chiang was responsible for teaching, course guidance, and design taught in French. Partners included the museum and a local charity organization.
Organization(s): Executive Yuan Hakka Affairs Council
Description: Chiang travels to Japan to visit the aging communities of the Seto Inland Sea, investigating how crowds and capital brought in by the Setouchi International Art Triennale are used to breathe life into aging village communities and understand Japanese business strategies and human resources motivation methods in agricultural produce sales, operating village kitchens or village art galleries when considering the future of Taiwan’s remote rural areas.
Organization(s): Taipei McKay Memorial Hospital Day Care Psychiatry
Description: While attending university, Chiang served as an art teacher for a hospital day care center, holding art classes for groups of mentally ill patients. Chiang was responsible for planning arts and crafts classes and participated in the medical care of patients with chronic mental illness, cooperating with psychiatric doctors, occupational therapists, and nurses to help patients build interpersonal relationships through art activities.
Other Projects Chiang Has Participated in:
- Art Project Research: This course received the Taipei National University of the Arts 2018 Prize for Outstanding Course Design.
Organization(s): TNUA Fine Arts Department, Hualien Archeological Museum. Description: This activity is a university course in service learning. Taught by Chiang, the course content is the Fine Arts Department’s public service. Chiang leads students to the Hualien Archeological Museum in Fengtian, Hualien, to participate in community-building in non-metropolitan areas and guides students and the community in establishing historical relationships and enhancing their communication abilities. This course leads students, community arts organizations, and community members in achieving substantive connections.
- Art Co-Creation Community Project – Community Building Phase Three and Village Cultural Development Project
Organization(s): Hualien County Cultural Affairs Bureau
Description: Regional revitalization based on the development of art, regional studies, and interpersonal relationships. The problem with Hualien’s remote communities is that young people have no concept of social design when they enter the community. This project blended the arts and community cooperation, led workshops, and facilitated arts education in village schools.
- Social Arts Education and Technology: Using Augmented Reality (AR) to Rediscover Street Houses
Organization(s): Ministry of Education and National Taiwan Arts Education Center, partially subsidized by the Ministry of Education.
Description: This is social arts educational content specially designed for people, not from the realm of arts professionals. Financed by the Ministry of Education, the content concerned cultural heritage education of old street housing. Chiang was responsible for the digital tour’s design and planning, using digital technology to promote historical architecture through exhibitions, 360-degree video, and AR. This project was a National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Social Responsibility Project.
- Disability Arts Workshop Exchange Project
Organization(s): Paris Museum of Modern Art and the French charity Entreprendre pour Aider, sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.
Description: The Paris Museum of Art invited Chiang to design and execute an animation workshop for people with disabilities. This workshop used creative drawing techniques (paper, photography, photocopy paper, paint, found objects, and video photography) to create a two-dimensional animation collectively. For this course, Chiang was responsible for teaching, course guidance, and design taught in French. Partners included the museum and a local charity organization.
- Local Happiness – A Look at the Restoration of Aging Hakka Villages from the Setouchi International Art Triennale
Organization(s): Executive Yuan Hakka Affairs Council
Description: Chiang travels to Japan to visit the aging communities of the Seto Inland Sea, investigating how crowds and capital brought in by the Setouchi International Art Triennale are used to breathe life into aging village communities and understand Japanese business strategies and human resources motivation methods in agricultural produce sales, operating village kitchens or village art galleries when considering the future of Taiwan’s remote rural areas.
- Day Care Psychiatry, Arts Volunteer Teachers
Organization(s): Taipei McKay Memorial Hospital Day Care Psychiatry
Description: While attending university, Chiang served as an art teacher for a hospital day care center, holding art classes for groups of mentally ill patients. Chiang was responsible for planning arts and crafts classes and participated in the medical care of patients with chronic mental illness, cooperating with psychiatric doctors, occupational therapists, and nurses to help patients build interpersonal relationships through art activities.
Other Projects Chiang Has Participated in:
- 2019: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Art History Reconstruction Project. Arts interpretational studies project, designing educational outreach activities for the general public; paid project work.
- 2017: Residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). Organized by Taipei Artist Village, selected as an exchange artist for three months.
- 2016: Residency Unlimited, New York. Organized by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, selected as an exchange artist for four months.
- 2013: The Centre Pompidou, Paris. I participated and assisted in numerous educational activities during free admissions periods at the museum, a paid internship in museum education, and an international research project supported by the Taipei Contemporary Art Foundation.
- 2013: Sponsored by the Cloud Gate Dance Theater Homeless Project, traveled to Jordan and Israel for two months and learned about local art and culture.
