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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.


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 ArtTaipei, 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 AwardsObservers Special Award, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2011   New Taipei City AwardMerit 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
             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
2022   Peeling–Technical Experiments with Everyday Marks | LEE Yung-Chih x SONG  Chia-Yun
           C-LAB ,  Taipei, Taiwan 
           Nuit Blanche Taipei -Welcome to the Grand Shihlin Theater
           Taipei Performing Arts Center,  Taipei, Taiwan
2021   Phnatasmapolis-2021 Asian Art Biennial
           National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts ,  Taichung, Taiwan 
           ADAM Artist Lab-ShihLin Study
           Taipei Performing Arts Center,  Taipei, Taiwan
2020   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, Taiwan
2019  Biennale Jogja XV Equator #5
            Jogja National Museum,  Yogyakarta, Indonesia 
           Small Singapore Show 2.0
           Supernormal,  Singapore
2018   Small Singapore Show 2.0
           OCAC, Taipei Taiwan
2017   Taiwan Annual
           Taipei Expo Park Expo dome, Hsinchu City Taiwan
2016   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
            
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"

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