Tsui Kuang-Yu

Born 1974, Taipei, Taiwan

As we move around the city, our behaviour is governed at all times by a whole array of rules, customs, signs and symbols. We navigate a world marked out by lines painted on the roads; by street signs, railings, fences, bollards; and by more subtle, unspoken and unwritten agreements. Very often, we’re not even aware of the many ways in which our behaviour in different places is controlled by different sets of rules, customs or expectations. But what would happen if we started to think about those customs – and to misuse them? What if we invented the rules? Tsui Kuang-yu gives us a glimpse of what is unleashed as the residents of Liverpool put their own twist onto the signs, symbols and conventions of the city’s streets.

Solo Exhibitions

2006 City Crevice, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, UK
The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Spirits, IT Park Gallery & Photo Studio, Taipei, Taiwan

2005 You So Crazy: Kuang-Yu Tsui’s Video Works, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

2002 The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Circumstance, IT Park Gallery & Photo Studio, Taipei, Taiwan

2001 Chien. Kuang. Huei Taking a Shortcut, Prototype Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan


Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Exposed: Black Box & Crystal Ball, London, UK
Sex and Sadness, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey
i-Dentity, Fashion and Textile Museum, London, UK; Bienal of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; House of Palomino/The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Wrong(ed) Attitude, Sparwasser, Berlin, Germany; Paris (CCTP), France

2005 The Spectre of Freedom, 51st Venice Biennale, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy
The Gravity in Art, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004 Do You Believe in Reality?, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Spirits, Gasworks Studio, London, UK

2003 City_Net Asia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2002 P8 – Continual Outflank – The Eight Immortals Try to Swim the Ocean, Project 1-P_A_U_S_E, 4th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea

2001 P8 – Happy Community – In The Meantime, P8 Is Taking the Shortcut, The Gravity of the Immaterial, MOCA Grand Opening Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2000 P8 – Happy Community: A Gratifying Harvest After Total Cultivation – Warning: Heavy Radiation, Dangerous to Get Close, IT Park Gallery & Photo Studio, Taipei, Taiwan


TV Programmes

2006 Exploding Television – Satellite of Love presents: Sex and Sadness, Rotterdam International Film Festival/Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2005 FORMAT, SVT, Sweden