Tseng Ting-Yu
Research Projects, Art Criticism, and Academic Publications:
2025 Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage Institute – Project Grant
“A Study on the Digital Archiving and Application of Hand-Painted Backdrop Imagery in Taiwanese Outdoor Opera: Yunlin, Chiayi, and Tainan Regions”
2025 National Taiwan Normal University – New Faculty Research Project Grant
“Digital Archiving and Application of Hand-Painted Backdrop Imagery in Taiwanese Outdoor Opera: Yunlin Region”
2024 “The Contemporary Interpenetration of Ink Painting and Moving Images and Their Aesthetic Convergence,” preface in the art catalogue Local Chronicles in Ink, 2022–2024
2024 “Practicing Flowers and the Edge of the Sea,” preface in the art catalogue Floral Isles · Coastal Borders: Paintings by Tseng Ting-Yu
2024 “A Tentative Analysis of the Aesthetic Foundations and Local Consciousness in Li Zhen-Ming’s Works,” published in Beginning Only After Leaving the Academy: Li Zhen-Ming Solo Exhibition
2023 Ministry of Culture – Young Artists Development Grant
“Writing and Uploading Local Culture”
2022 National Culture and Arts Foundation – Project Grant
“Ink Chronicles of Place: Tseng Ting-Yu Creative Project”
2022 “The Other Within the Echo Chamber,” preface in the art catalogue Movement and In-Between: Contemporary Ink Paintings by Tseng Ting-Yu
2017 Ink Beyond Ink Painting: Cultural Translation in Post-1980s Generations — Doctoral Dissertation
2014 “When Ink Painting Moves Beyond the Flat Surface,” selected for The Brush and Ink Revolution: Returning to Purity and Authenticity with New Expressions — Liu Kuo-Sung Paper Award, International Ink Art Academic Forum
Awards and Honors:
2023 Second CTBC Contemporary Painting Award — Excellence Award, work acquired for the permanent collection
2023 Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Zhongshan Youth Art Award — Zhongshan Award, work acquired for the permanent collection
2023 Ministry of Culture Art Bank — Work acquired: Old Tropes 21: Backup Dancers / Backup Flyers
2023 Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition (Photography and Video Category) — Third Prize, Local Ink Chronicles: Fengshan
2022 Selected for Chinese Ink Painting Yearbook 2022, edited and compiled under the direction of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
2022 Ministry of Culture Art Bank — Work acquired: Old Tropes 21: Night Drift / Riding the Qilin / Inner Monologue
2022 Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition (Painting Category) — Annual Special Award, work acquired: Old Tropes 22: Three Short of a Full Table
2022 26th Nanying Award — Excellence Award
2021 Second Liu Kuo-Sung Ink Art Award — Excellence Award
Exhibition Experience:
2024 Taipei Art Fair, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
2024 Everyone Paints Kinmen — Seven-Artist Group Exhibition, Taiwan Academy of Fine Arts, Taipei
2024 Floral Isles · Coastal Borders — Solo Exhibition by Tseng Ting-Yu, Ruomu Gallery, Taipei
2024 Local Ink Chronicles: Jinhu — Solo Exhibition by Tseng Ting-Yu, Jinhu Village, Yunlin
2023 Local Ink Chronicles: Fengshan — “Fengshan Thanksgiving Ritual: Birthday of Guanyin Buddha” — Solo Exhibition by Tseng Ting-Yu, Fengshan Village, Nantou
2022 Seeking the Way, Forgetting Distance: Cross-Strait Contemporary Ink Exchange Exhibition, Daxin Art Museum, Guangzhou
2022 Movement — and the In-Between — Contemporary Ink Solo Exhibition by Tseng Ting-Yu, Wisteria Tea House (Zitenglu), Taipei
2021 Beyond Institutional Distance: A Thematic Exhibition on the Cross-Institutional Development of Contemporary Ink in Taiwan, Hung Genshen Art Museum, Penghu
2021 THE FUNINK, Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taoyuan
2021 Second Liu Kuo-Sung Ink Art Award, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2019 International Young Artists Exchange Exhibition, Tongde Gallery, Seoul
2018 Taipei Art Fair, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
2018 Objectlessness: Producing Meaning Amid the Ruins of Waste, Providence University Art Center, Taichung
2017 Taipei International Ink Art Exhibition, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei
2017 Ink Mandala, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung
2017 NTUA Emerging Curators Project — The Violence Enthusiasts, MoCA YUAN, Taipei
2017 I’m Not Sure — Solo Exhibition by Tseng Ting-Yu, Elephant Art Space, Taichung
2016 MUZINZO — Group Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
2016 2010–2016 Exchanges Across the World: A Documentary Exhibition of Contemporary Ink, Redtory Art & Design Factory, Guangzhou
2015–2017 Ink Asia — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Hong Kong International Ink Art Fair, Hong Kong
2015 Chinese Character Art Festival, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei
Portfolio:
2024 "Floral Islets · Coastal Shores": Contemporary Ink Paintings by Tseng Ting-Yu
2024 "Local Chronicles in Ink 2022–2024": Ink and Image Works by Tseng Ting-Yu
2022 "Motion — Between Transitions": Contemporary Ink Paintings by Tseng Ting-Yu