yu jen-chih

Painter, printmaker, 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 earned a Master’s degree in film history from 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 printmaking techniques and has participated in two solo exhibitions in his hometown. From 2008 to 2014, he participated in several group exhibitions in Bahrain, Colombia (Bogota), Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk Municipal Museum), as well as in galleries and cultural spaces in France (Paris, Dinard, Brest, Quimper), Italy (Avellino), Georgia (Georgian National Music Center, Tbilisi), and Argentina (MACLA, La Plata).

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 of his printmaking entitled “Between Titans and Giants.”

In 2018, Yu Jen-chih created a 720 cm x 122 cm woodcut for his solo exhibition at Moyens 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 and at international art fairs. In the fall of 2023, his large-format works will be featured in an exhibition, “Torment and Ecstasy,” at the Maison de l’Erdre, organized by the City of Nantes – Nantes Métropole.

Yu Jen-chih has also co-authored several bibliophile books, including Ce qui me fait 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.

Oeuvres disponibles à la galerie

2025 Réminiscence, Musée Bernard-Boesch, Le Pouligen

2023 Tourment & extase, Maison de l’Erdre, Ile de Versailles, Nantes

2022 Galerie Raulin Pompidou, Paris

2022 Galerie V12, Angers

2020 Galerie Raulin Pompidou, Paris

2020 Galerie Alison Fine Art, Hong-Kong (Chine)

2019 Galerie Red Zone Art, Francfort sur le Main (D) 

2018 Les moyens du bords, Centre d’art de la Manufacture des Tabacs, Morlaix

2017 Entre titans et géants, Kwang-Hua Center, Hong Kong (Chine)

2014 Galerie Red Zone Art, Genève (CH)

1997 Houyuan Gallery, Taïpei (Taïwan)

1994 Painting Exchange and Appreciation Association of the Republic of China, Taïpei (Taïwan) 

2024 A travers l’Eden (en duo avec Charles Coturel), Galerie Robet Dantec, Nantes

2024 Couvent des Cordeliers (en duo avec Tsai Charwei), Festival Off d’Avignon en partenariat avec le Centre culturel de Taïwan à Paris, Avignon

2022 49 regards, Trélazé, France

2020 Taipei Dangdei – Foire d’Art Contemporain, Taipei (Taiwan)

2014 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Latino-americano, La Plata (Argentine)

2012 Donner du temps au temps, Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris.

2010 Centre National de Musique, Tbilissi (Géorgie)

2009 Alliance Française, Bahreïn, Moyen Orient.

2008 Alliance Française, Paris 

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Archives et Musée de la Littérature, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique 

« Réminiscence » Catalogue monographique de Yu Jen-chih. Texte Philippe Larue (Commissariat) et Camille Nagel (Historienne de l’art). Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Bernard Boesch, Le Pouliguen. 2025.

« Intérieur/extérieur : natures mortes et paysages », recueil de vingt textes de Yu Jen-Chih sur l’art – Ed. INK Literary Monthly, 2011. (Réédition en 2011 pour la Chine par New Star Press)