Chen Wei-ting's personal exhibition "A Sliver of Ash"

Name of the organization or individual

Chen Weiteng

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2024 2nd Startup Subsidy

Chen Wei-ting's personal exhibition, "A Smear of Ash" (2025) Photo by Huang Kuo-shen

Chen Wei-ting's personal exhibition, "A Smear of Ash" (2025) Photo by Huang Kuo-shen

Chen Wei-ting's personal exhibition, "A Smear of Ash" (2025) Photo by Huang Kuo-shen

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Business Overview

This exhibition introduces the flow of Chen's recent works. The focus is on the language of expression, which starts with poetry and develops into multiple media such as painting, lithography and installation. Many of his works are based on everyday scenes and childhood memories, and through the relationships between fictional characters and objects, he constructs a story with images that are filled with emotional ambiguity and a sense of time fragmentation. The title of the exhibition, “A Strain of Gray, ” symbolizes the state that exists between light and dark, certainty and uncertainty, and is also a response to the“ emotional margin ” and the “vague boundaries of existence ” that the artist has consistently explored. The characters on the screen often adopt a "waiting," "wandering," or "hesitating" posture, reflecting years of reflection on subjects such as relationships, language, perception, and memory.

implementation period

Friday, August 15, 2025 - Sunday, September 14

Place of implementation

Tainan Art Museum

Profile

[Chen Wei-ting]
Born in Tainan, Taiwan. He received his master's degree in Global Art Practice from Tokyo University of the Arts. Through paintings, poetry, and installations, he creates a unique world view based on childhood memories, objects, and eeriness. He has held solo exhibitions at the Tainan Municipal Museum of Art ("Assorted Ashes") (2025) and the Kaohsiung Municipal Museum of Art ("Equinox") (2024). He has received many awards, including the Shibuya Awards Grand Prize, the Tomio Koyama Jury Prize, the Ueno Royal Museum Art Grand Prize, and the CAF Prize. Currently based in Tokyo.