Yang Yi-Shiang

(b. 1981, Taiwan)

Yang Yi-Shiang (b. 1981, Taiwan) graduated in fine arts from Tunghai University. Working in acrylic and pencil, she records fragments of her own life with a sharp sensitivity to the unease and entanglements of contemporary living. Her debut, "Spirit of Travel," opened at Espace Louis Vuitton Taipei in 2013, and her work entered the Young Artists Collection Program of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Neverland Gallery is a gallery in Xinyi, Taipei; here you will find the original works she presented at ONE ART Taipei 2024.

楊依香｜Yang Yi-Shiang (B. 1981 / Taiwan)

“Painting as a diary — the quiet tremors of family and everyday life”

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Yang Yi-Shiang graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Tunghai University in 2006 and taught painting for a short time before her debut exhibition, "Spirit of Travel," at Espace Louis Vuitton Taipei in 2013, where she received the Louis Vuitton Special Jury Prize. That same year she won the Kaohsiung Award and was recognised at the Keelung and Dadun art exhibitions; her work was also acquired through the Young Artists Collection Program of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

Her paintings are largely nostalgic and personal, kept like a diary: "I paint what I feel, what I see, what I hear, and what I say." As she moved from single life to marriage and motherhood, her work shifted from the series “Mental Phenomena” (2010) to “Micropsia” (2021), changing in both subject and technique. Family, social issues and animals sit at the centre of her practice, and beyond the feeling of the moment she seeks to leave room for reflection and kindness. Art may not change the world, she says, but it remains a conversation between the artist and the person standing before the canvas.