Yang Maolin

 

Yang Maolin is one of the founding fathers of transavantagarde painting in Taiwan.

He started his career in the early 80’s, in the years which saw the lifting of martial law and the advent of democracy in Taiwan. His paintings are nothing else but a canvas for the struggle against the nationalist KMT regime, and the means to search for a new identity once the old China ideology had been abolished. In the early 80’s this struggle led him to use imagery from traditional religion and mythology to allude to the power struggles between the underground democracy movement and the KMT regime.

After the lfiting of martial law, with his "Made in Taiwan" series he dedicated a decade to the search for a new identity, whose ultimate essence came to be a fluid hybridity which reflects Taiwan’s geopolitical and historical position on the crossroads (or rather, between the grinding stones) of global trade and power politics. In his latest sculptures, the symbols of this hybridity have become gods of a new kind of religion- the sublime experience of global entertainment.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022

Mementos: 2022 Yang Mao-Lin Solo Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2019 Installation Project: Wanderers of the Abyssal Darkness, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Kaohsiung, Taiwan Wanderers of the Abyssal Darkness II — Somber Seas, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2018 Hybrid and Metamorphosis — Yang Mao-Lin's Mythology, Changhua County Art Museum, Changhua, Taiwan

2016 Yang Mao-Lin: A Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2015 The Quest for Mandala Episode I — Wanderers of the Abyssal Darkness Yang Mao-Lin Solo Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Kill Alice — Final Battle: Yang Mao-Lin Solo Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 ShContemporary

2010, Discoveries, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

2009 Lost in Wonderland, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Temple of Sublime Beauty — Hallelujah, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Temple of Sublime Beauty — Made in Taiwan, 53th Venice Biennial, Collateral Event, Sala S. Tommaso, S. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy

2006 Canonization of the Gods — The Pure Land of Maha, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2003 Ceremonies Before Rewarding — Inviting the Immortals Ⅲ, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2002 Yang Mao-Lin Solo Exhibition, Melbourne Art Fair

2002, Melbourne, Australia Baby, You’re Amazing II, Taipei National University of the Arts, North and South Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2001 Baby, You’re Amazing: Inviting the Immortals, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2000 Yang Mao-Lin Solo Exhibition, Tunghai University Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

1999 The International of Taiwan's Contemporary Art Vol. 6, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan VOC: Handle With Care, 48 Exponzione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy Inviting the Immortals: Culture, Intercourse, Tayouan History, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1996 Tayouan Topography, Crown Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

1995 Tayouan Memorandum, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan

1994 Tayouan Memorandum, Crown Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan 

1993 Yang Mao-Lin ‘86–‘93, Door Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Zeelandia Memorandum, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan Lily Memorandum, Crown Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.

1992 Made in Taiwan — I Memorandum Section I, Hsiung Shih Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Made in Taiwan — II Memorandum Section II, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan Made in Taiwan — III Memorandum Section III, Taiwania Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1991 N Ways of Understanding Carrot, Windsor Collections, Taipei, Taiwan 101 Yang Mao-Lin One Man Show, Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Museum, Taichung, Taiwan

1990 Made in Taiwan — I, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1987 Behavior of Game, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1985 101 Yang Mao-Lin One Man Show, Taichung Culture Center, Taichung, Taiwan

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2021 Hantoo 2021: Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining, Pingtung Art Museum, Pingtung, Taiwan A Song of Seas and Power: The Flow of Labor, Goods and Currents, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2019 Pioneers of the Avant-Garde Movement in Taiwan: From Li Chun-Shan to His Disciples, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Asia in Asia — Close by Far Away Drums, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea Taiwan Panegyric, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan Animal — Art, Science, Nature, Society, Taichung City Seaport Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2018 A Place With Hills, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Fight Club — Hantoo 20th, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2050, A Brief History of the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan 2018 Next Art Tainan: The Metamorphosis, 182 artspace, Tainan, Taiwan

2017 Imagery of Yore in Rear View — Hantoo Art Group 2017/1998, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan The Terrain of Taiwan Contemporary Art, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Hardcore Rally with Hantoo Art Group, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2016 Border Crossing Post-Paradise: Hantoo Art Group and the Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Chiyukan of Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan Traces: Sketch, Manuscript & Model of Hantoo Art Group, Arts Center of Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

2015 40 Years of Artist and Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014 The Other — The Distance— Cross-Strait Contemporary Art Exchange, Hubei Museum of Art, Hubei, China; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Reappearing the Glory — Thirty Years of Yilan Art Exhibitions, Yilan Museum of Art, Yilan, Taiwan Re Exhibiting, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Re Writing, FreeS Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan Jie: Boundaries of Self in Contemporary Art from Taiwan 1995–2013, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.

2014 Taipei Modern Art Exhibition, Meibo Art Center, Shanghai, China The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists, 1951–1960, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2013 Taiwan 50 — Modern Art Exhibition, Arki Galéria, Taipei, Taiwan Intersecting Vectors — Experimental Projects from the TFAM Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan From Upending Reality to Creating Reality — Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Post- Martial Law Era, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan Hantoo Lip-Tshù — Toughened Hantoo Souls Sentimentally Settled Here After Their Drift, FreeS Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan Horizon Realm: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, U.S.; Dolly M.E. Robinson Gallery of JSU, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. “Rolling! Visual Art in Taiwan,” Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Majestic Island — The Development of Modern Art in Taiwan (1911–2011), National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; China Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2012 Art Taipei

2012, Special Project, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan SH Contemporary 2012, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China Unique Vision II: Highlights from the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2012 Local to Local ‘Taipei in Busan’ — Hantoo Art Group Invited Exhibition, Openspace bae, Busan, Korea Manifestation of Homunculi, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China — Republic Without People(The 10th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Sincere Subversion, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan Time Games: Contemporary Appropriations of the Past, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Animation + Comic + Contemporary Arts, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan The Sentimental Boys! Hantoo Joint Exhibition, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Future Pass — From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th Venice Biennial, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice, Italy; Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Republic of China — Republic Without People, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2010 Taiwan Calling: The Phantom of Liberty, Műcsarnok — Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary Measurement of the Other — Contemporary Art from Taiwan, Soka Art Center Beijing, Beijing, China Hantoo Art Group 2.0 (“See U Next Ten” — 2010 AVAT Artists Exhibition), Taichung Creative and Cultural Park, Taichung, Taiwan Amazement and Astonishment — Hantoo Art Group’s Adventure to the West, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China Clouds — Power of Asian Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center Beijing, Beijing, China Continuation — Special Exhibition of Li Chun-Shen Modern Painting Award Winners, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Contemporary Art of Taiwan, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea

2009 Animamix Biennial — Visual Attract & Attack, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Viewpoints & Viewing Points — 2009 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Akodou Power of Hantoo Art Group, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China Mythologies of Contemporary Art by Three Artists, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Post Tough Littly Guys — Hantoo Group Show, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Jewels of 25 Years Museum Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Madden Reality: Post-Taipei Art Group, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2008 Reason’s Clue, Queens Museum of Arts, Queens, NY, U.S. Shanghai MoCA Envisage II — Butterfly Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China Origin: The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival, Moon River MOCA, Beijing, China Second Vision, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2007 Animamix Hyper — Link, Moon River MOCA, Beijing, China Impressions Contemporary, Impressions Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 3rd Life 4th Dimension, Chung Shan National Gallery, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan Compare — Contrast: Contemporary Art in Cross-strait, Song Zhuang Art Center, Beijing, China Styles of Radical Will — The Multiform Nineties: Taiwan’s Contemporary Art, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan Hantoo Art Group, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Mou.I.Kai — The Exhibition by Hantoo Art Group 2007, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan Post–Martial Law vs. Post ’89 — The Contemporary Art in Taiwan and China, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan The EXIT Festival and the VIA Festival, Créteil — Maison Arts et la Culture, Paris, France

2006 Artistic Development and Social Transition in Taiwan II: Formosa Mambo, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Taiwan’s Art Branches Out, 1950–2000, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Taipei/ Taipei Views and Points, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Manga, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan 15 JAALA Biennial, Tokyo City Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan A Moving Memory, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Fiction @ Love /Ultra New Vision of Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Singapore Icons and Iconoclasts, Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, New York, NY, U.S. Macro Vision, Micro Analysis, Multiple Reflections — Contemporary Art in Taiwan Since 1987, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Fiction @ Love / Forever Young Land, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China Fiction @ Love / Twinkling Stars, Bund 18 Creative Center, Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2005 Figurative Painting in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan MS 8+5 Hantoo Mambo, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Pingtung Peninsula Arts Festival 2005, Pingtung, Taiwan Contemporary Art from Taiwan at the Venice Biennale, 1995–2003, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2005 Kuandu Extravaganza Exhibition of Modern Art in Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2004 The Multiform Nineties — Taiwan’s Art Branches Out, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Fiction. Love — Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan The Transitional Eighties — Taiwan’s Art Breaks New Ground, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Contemporary Taiwanese Art in Era of Contention, Herbert E. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.

2003 Play with King Kong & Barbie, Hantoo Art Group, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, U.S. King Kong Touch Barbie, Hantoo Art Group, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan King Kong & Barbie 13, Hantoo Art Group Major Exhibition, Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan

2002 Epoques de la Peinture Taïwanaise, Place de la porte d’Auteuil Cour SNCF, Paris, France; Montecatini Val di Cecina City Hall, Montecatini, Italy; Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy; Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates Oeuvre of Contemporary Art in Taipei Part I: Critical Reports, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan Political Art Exhibition, Jeff Hsu’s Art, Taipei, Taiwan Art Roaming and Social Sensation — Cultural Observation for 8 Kinds of Art Expressions, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan Fine Art Band Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2001 Main Trend: Sailing Into the New Century, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Waves Striking: One Hundred Years of Taiwanese Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2000 Chi-Chi Ark Installation Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, U.S. Taiwanese Art and Social Relationship, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Thanksgiving, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

1999 Li Chun Shen Foundation of Contemporary Painting Prix Exhibition, Crown Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan Visions of Pluralism: Contemporary Art in Taiwan, 1988–1999, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan; Art Centers of Tsinghua U., Chiaotung U. and Hsin-Chu Teachers College, Hsinchu, Taiwan Showcases of Taiwan & Hong Kong Modern Art, Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center, Hong Kong Ouh La La Kitsch, Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China 14th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Taiwanese File, Ayuntamiento De Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

1998 Taipei Modern Art Exhibition, Seoul Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea

1998 Tachikawa International Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan Reflection and Reconsideration — 2.28 Commemorative Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Gaudy-ism Taiwan, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1997 Lantern of the East, 1997 — The 4th International Art Festival Los Angeles, La Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, U.S. Taipei Modern Painting Exhibition, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan Sadness Transformed: 2.28 Commemorative Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1996 Contemporary Art Trends in Taiwan, Shin Chuang Culture Center, Taipei, Taiwan A Contemporary View of Taiwanese Art — Hanart’s Choice, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Taipei Modern Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Discovering the New Power of Taiwan Art, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan 1996 Taipei Biennial: The Quest for Identity — Identity and Memories, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Fifth Moon Exhibition: The Fortieth Anniversary, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; Jia Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1995 Taiwan Legend Contemporary Painting in Taiwan 1980–1995, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan Looking Through Lines, Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei, Taiwan Other Distance, Studio Aperto/ Associazione Culturale per la Promozione doll'Arte in Europe, Rome, Italy Taiwanese Contemporary Art, Sidney Contemporary Art Museum, Sidney, Australia The Speculation and Demonstration of Fine Arts in Taiwan, Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Museum, Taichung, Taiwan

1994 Open Era, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Season of Typhoons: Modern Art in Taiwan, Gallerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan Taiwan — Hong Kong, Trigram Gallery, Hong Kong; Gallerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan

1993 Taiwan Art: 1945–1993, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Up to the Top — Taiwan Modern Art, G. Zen 50 Art Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Tokyo International Art Show (TIAS), Tokyo, Japan

1992 Opening Exhibition — New Phase of Taiwanese Arts, New Phase Space, Tainan, Taiwan The Power of Taiwan, Taipei Art Group, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan The 6th Asian International Art Exhibition, Tagawa Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan

1991 90 Sampling Exhibition, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan 101 Modern Art Group Exhibition, Up Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 27th Asia Modern Art Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan The Power Wind of Taipei, Galleria Museum, Seoul, Korea Social Observation — The New Art Trends in Taiwan, Hsiung Shin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1990 The 5th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 300 Years of Fine Arts in Taiwan, Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Museum, Taichung, Taiwan Taiwan Fine Arts — From Tradition to Creation, Selection Exhibition, Yung Han Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1989 Special Exhibition for the Artistic Development in Modern Times, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan Massage From Taipei, Hara Museum ARC, Tokyo, Japan The Art Exhibition by Taipei Painting Group, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1988 The Time and the Unprecedented Contemporary Arts in the ROC, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Chinese Art Development Exhibition, Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Museum, Taichung, Taiwan Contemporary Art Trends in the Republic of China 1988, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1987 Chinese Contemporary Arts Exhibition, National Modern Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Chinese Contemporary Painting Show, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA, U.S. The 2nd Asian International Art Exhibition, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan 1987 Modern Paintings Exhibition, Domestic Art Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan

1986 The New Look of Chinese Modern Art — 1987, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan Exhibition of New Representational Paintings, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Style 22 Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Group Exhibition of ’86 Modern Arts, Hwanya Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan Contemporary Art Trends in the R.O.C., Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1985 Alternative Arts Exhibition of Chinese & Korean Modern Painting, Kwan Hun Gallery, Seoul, Korea Kunsan International Arts Exhibition, Museum of Kusan National University, Kusan, Korea The 1st Art Exhibition by Taipei Painting Group, Domestic Art Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan New Painting Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1984 Group Exhibition of New Painting by 101 Modern Art Group, Social Educational Hall, Taipei, Taiwan Contemporary Trends in Chinese Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan The 1st Modern Painting Group Exhibition in the R.O.C., Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1983 101 Modern Art Group Exhibition, American Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Multi-Media Art square, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei,

Taiwan Yageo Foundation, Taipei,

Taiwan Sanlih Television Charity Foundation, Taipei,

Taiwan Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsinchu,

Taiwan National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung,

Taiwan Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung,

Taiwan Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Long Museum, Shanghai, China

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, U.S