LEE YUNG-CHIH (a.k.a. Big Uji)
b. 1979 in Taipei County, Taiwan.Currently works and lives in Taipei City. Lee graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts MFA Program in New Media Arts.
Grown up in Huacheng Road, a place filled with factory noises and street litter. Determined to be a computer engineer when he was young, but unexpectedly found himself go on the road as a graphic/web/multi-media designer, more 'mixed' than skilled. Also, he took up his interests as an amateur short film director, a photographer, and a writer, enjoying his hybrid identity. He turned into an artist after entering into the art school, and won several awards such as Kaohsiung Awards(Observers Special Award)and New Taipei City Award(Merit Award).His work has also been included in exhibitions across Taiwan, Singapore, and Indonesia with recent major exhibitions and events including the Biennale Jogja in Indonesia, The Secret South: From Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the fifth Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance (ADAM) at the Taipei Performing Arts Center, the 2021 Asian Art Biennial Phantasmapolis at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Memory Palace in Ruins at C-Lab(2023) and 2022: Selected in C-LAB「CREATORS」project and curated series public art events. Lee currently works as an artist and occasionally an environmental inspector.
b. 1979 in Taipei County, Taiwan.Currently works and lives in Taipei City. Lee graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts MFA Program in New Media Arts.
Grown up in Huacheng Road, a place filled with factory noises and street litter. Determined to be a computer engineer when he was young, but unexpectedly found himself go on the road as a graphic/web/multi-media designer, more 'mixed' than skilled. Also, he took up his interests as an amateur short film director, a photographer, and a writer, enjoying his hybrid identity. He turned into an artist after entering into the art school, and won several awards such as Kaohsiung Awards(Observers Special Award)and New Taipei City Award(Merit Award).His work has also been included in exhibitions across Taiwan, Singapore, and Indonesia with recent major exhibitions and events including the Biennale Jogja in Indonesia, The Secret South: From Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the fifth Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance (ADAM) at the Taipei Performing Arts Center, the 2021 Asian Art Biennial Phantasmapolis at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Memory Palace in Ruins at C-Lab(2023) and 2022: Selected in C-LAB「CREATORS」project and curated series public art events. Lee currently works as an artist and occasionally an environmental inspector.
Lee’s work often involves the displacement and appropriation of scenes of daily life. He tends to present the absurdity, sentimentality, calmness and aloofness he experienced, revealing his seemingly futile political agenda via the camouflage of imitation and representation. His art practice also touches on the sense of place, drawing from his personal experience of growing up in an industrial area, the bodily memory of collective working in the processing plant, and the apparently irreversible status quo in Taiwan in confrontation with internationalization, modernization, and individualization. In this way, Lee’s art is nostalgic camouflage embedded in a future of desperation.
Education /
2011-2015 Taipei National University of the Arts ,MFA in New Media Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2002-2005 TamKang University, B.F.A., New Taipei City, Taiwan
Selected Award, Prize and Grant /
2022 CREATORS Project ,C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 New Art Star Project Grants ,The National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Kaohsiung Awards（Observers Special Award）, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2011 New Taipei City Award（Merit Award） , New Taipei City, Taiwan
2011 New Taipei City Award（Merit Award） , New Taipei City, Taiwan
2010 BENQ Awards (Creative Award), eslite book store, Taipei, Taiwan
Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award (Judges' Award), TaoYuan Art Center, TaoYuan, Taiwan
2009 Poetry of Image (CJudges' Award), Taipei Poetry Festival , Taipei, Taiwan
Pingtung Art Exhibition (Judges' Award of photography catalog), Pingtung Cultural Center ,Taiwan
Solo Exhibition /
2014 Signature Action
2014 Signature Action
Free Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Industry Rubbing
MEME Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Group Exhibition /2023 Memory Palace in Ruins
C-LAB , Taipei, Taiwan Next Art Tainan –BIFURCATION of CONFLUENCED
MEZZO ART , Tainan, Taiwan Bye-bye Taiwan New Cinema？- Film x Photography x Installation
NTU Arts Center& Lixian Hall, Taipei, Taiwan Power! Concrete! Let's Build the Island's Modern Dream!
Tainan Arts Museum, Tainan, Taiwan Nuit Blanche Taipei -Welcome to the Grand Shihlin Theater
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan2021 Phnatasmapolis-2021 Asian Art Biennial
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung, Taiwan ADAM Artist Lab-ShihLin Study
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan2020 Dian huè, On-gu, Ti-kang, Po Ge-huè
Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan The Secret South: from Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan2019 Biennale Jogja XV Equator #5
Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Small Singapore Show 2.0
Supernormal, Singapore2018 Small Singapore Show 2.0
OCAC, Taipei Taiwan2017 Taiwan Annual
Taipei Expo Park Expo dome, Hsinchu City Taiwan2016 Meet Hsinchu New Art
Hsinchu City Art Gallery & Reclamation Hall, Hsinchu City Taiwan
2015 Together. Let Us. Build a Factory Shehou Art Factory, New Taipei City Taiwan
My First Art Show
Huashan1914, Taipei Taiwan
My First Art Show
Pier-2 Art Centeri, Kaohsiung Taiwan the Delight of Chinese Character
Pier-2 Art Centeri, Kaohsiung Taiwan
2014 Arts Fair Taiwan
Xinyi Place of Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, Taipei Taiwan
2012 Kaohsiung Arts Awards Exhibition Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Taiwan
Hyper-Considerate
Nanhai Gallery, Taipei Taiwan
Venture Seminar of New Media
TecArt Corridor, Taipei Taiwan
2011 New Taipei City Award Exhibition
Banqiao Art Center,New Tapei City Taiwan
2010 Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award Exhibition
Banqiao Art Center,New Tapei City Taiwan
BENQ Awards Exhibition
eslite book store, Taipei, Taiwan
eslite book store, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Pingtung Art Exhibition
Pingtung Cultural Center ,Taiwan 
Curate /
2022 Peeling–Technical Experiments with Everyday Marks | series events
C-LAB , Taipei, Taiwan Collection/
2022 Taiwan Art Bank "2022 Annual Collection"
LEE YUNG-CHIH (a.k.a. Big Uji) b. 1979 in Taipei County, Taiwan.Currently works and lives in Taipei City. Lee graduated from Taipei Natio...
