yu jen-chih
Painter, engraver and art critic, born in 1977 in Taipei, Taiwan into a family of artists and intellectuals. He studied Fine Arts at Tunghai University (Taiwan) from 1995 to 1999, then he obtained a DEA in cinema history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Yu Jen-chih has lived and worked in France since 1999
Yu Jen-chih experiments with various painting and engraving techniques.
In 2014, Yu Jen-chih presented his works in a solo exhibition at the Red Zone Arts gallery in Geneva and again, in 2019, at Red Zone Arts in Frankfurt am Main. In 2017, the Kwang-Hua Information & Culture Center in Hong Kong dedicated a retrospective entitled “Between titans and giants” for his engraved works.
In 2018, Yu Jen-chih produced a 720 cm x 122 cm wood engraving for his solo exhibition at the Means du Bord, the art center of the Manufacture des Tabacs in Morlaix. Since 2020, the Alisan Fine Arts gallery (Hong Kong) has represented him in Hong Kong as well as at international fairs. In the fall of 2023, his large formats are brought together in an exhibition, “Torment and ecstasy”, at the Maison de l’Erdre organized by the City of Nantes – Nantes Métropole.
Yu Jen-chih also co-authored several bibliophile books, including Ce qui me signe (with Michel Bohbot) and Mesures Démesures (with Werner Lambersy, CMJN éditions).
Yu Jen-chih is also the author of literary files in direct collaboration with Milan Kundera, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando Arrabal and Massimo Rizzante, and of written portraits of artists such as Mikhaïl Kobakhidzé, Amos Gitai, Patricia Erbelding, Tony Soulié, Bertrand Menguy and Zhu Xiao-mei.
