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Yu-Chen Wang is a British-Taiwanese artist. Born 1978 in Taichung Taiwan, she is now based in London UK, working internationally.

Practice
Yu-Chen Wang graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in London in 2002, she previously attended the Postgraduate Study programme at Goldsmiths College University of London.

She uses drawing to explore mechanical and biological forms, and explore the ways in which their bodily borderlines blur and mutate. Her researches expand into collaborations producing sculptural installation, performance, music, films and events. Her exhibitions are often accompanied by dinner or breakfast events hosted by the artist, like the cross-cultural Pān-toh Supra, a collaboration with the artist Andro Semeiko at the Contemporary Art Space in Batumi Georgia 2017 and the Tbilisi Triennial in Georgia 2018.

Wang puplished several books, among them the quasi-fictional book The song of the machines in 2012.

Current and upcoming projects include a new commission and solo exhibition at New Doncaster Museum and Library in 2020, a residency at Metal, Peterborough in 2020 and a new commission for Grand Union Birmingham (2018-2022).

Wang also works as a curator. For many years she was running the project space Basement in central London.

Awards and Residencies

 * 2018: CERN Honorary Mention Collide International
 * 2018: CERN New Art Commission
 * 2018: Junction Works Residency at Grand Union

Exhibitions
2014: This is the end..., Taipei Biennial (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), Taipei City

Teaching
Yu-Chen Wang is Associate Lecturer in BA and MA Drawing at Camberwell College / University of Arts London and Associate Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College University of London. She has given lectures and talks at Liverpool John Moore University, University of Lancaster, National Taipei University of Education, University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, National Cheng Kung University inTainan, Wimbledon College of Arts London; College of Arts of the University of Lincoln, Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore.

Links
website of Yu-Chen Wang