BIO:
Born in Taiwan, media artist Yang, Yu-Chen, or Randy, derived from his earlier work which concentrates on kinetic installations emphasising on visual aesthetics, his recent work has progressed in a gradual inclination towards ‘sound’, or more precisely ‘sound’-oriented devices, which reacts to the dilemma in recent art practices regarding the possibility of the sound filling in what and where the image missed, producing unusual cross-dimensional sensory channels through the technique of sound collage.
His recent work Randy 9 juxtaposes distinctive self-built instruments of the east and west as an attempt to discover his own position as well as to study the human body during improvisation and sound production through circuit bending everyday electronics. Randy 7 discusses the formation of new relations based on logic converting a series of provided ‘body—images’, of which traces of the image processing are created according to the input alteration.
Besides numerous solo and group exhibitions, he was assistant to artist Wu Tien-Chang during university years, served as artist assistant communicating with foreign artists-in-residence at Soulangh Artist Village from 2017 to 2018, and worked as assistant for foreign curator during the 2018 Tainan International Foto Festival.
EDUCATION:
2013 - 2017 Taipei National University of the Arts /Bachelor of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITION:
2023 「Randy 14」, Hsinchu 241 Art Space, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
2021 「Echo Next Door - Randy Yang Solo Show」, FreeS Art Space, Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 「Dr. Instead Westepfoward & Randy」, TNUA South North Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan
GROUP EXHIBITION:
2023 「2023 Kaohsiung Award」, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
2021 「2021 Kaohsiung Award」, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
2020 「TDCC Contemporary Arts Award」, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei City, Taiwan
2020 「Not in this image」, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan
2019 「The 2nd Contemporary Sculpture Lih Pao Prize」, TNUA Underround Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan
2019 「Reverse, repeat, and rubbing」, Taipei City Arts Promotion Office, Taipei City, Taiwan
2019 「Sound Performance - Stage Pain」, Jiang Shan Yi Gai Suo, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
2018 「～～～: Journey, Crossing, Swaying」, Tamsui Customs Wharf, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2017 「Media Archeology: Indescribable of Life」, Our Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2017 「《Gravity x Fuze x____》bang! 32nd TNUA BFA Graduation Exhibition」, TNUA Underground Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan
2017 「Division of Reality」, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 「Xanadu Project II – A Place Without Boundaries」, TC Yachts, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2016 「Exhibition of KiKi, Randy, Blue Button」, TNUA South North Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan
2015 「《Love is rice》32nd TNUA BFA Group Exhibition」, TNUA Underground Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan
2015 「TNUA Fine Arts Department 29th Annual Exhibition - The Annual Exhibition」, TNUA Underground Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan