My Dear Presidents are at SCOPE, Miami 2010.

My latest work, "Hero Series: Dear President" are featured by Aureus Contemporary Gallery at SCOPE, Miami from Nov 30 to Dec 5. Feel free to check their website.

My Dear Chiang, Kai-shek (photo by Mr. Moses)

My Dear Deng Xiaoping, Ma Ying-jeou, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are happily together in Miami (from left to right).

Besides, here is the article about art fair and my work: Canvassing the Fairs: An Artist's-Eye Tour of Art Basel Miami Beach

http://www.artinfo.com/news/photos/2824/26682/

http://angelfloresjr.multiply.com/journal/item/7016

Sweet Girls at SCOPE, Basel Switzerland 2010.

Sweet girls say: Are you looking at you? You can get closer....I will give you whtever you are looking for.

Beauty Breast Lotion

The Secret Of Whitening

Review about them...SCOPE ART SHOW BASEL 2010 REVIEW
Impressions from Scope. Some really nice pieces, some very well known and some different ones.........

Painting bottles for Madwell....

In 2010, I started to have interesting relationship with "BOTTLES."



In July, I painted "perfume bottles" for Watermill Art Center, Mr. Robert Wilson; in November, I was doing a commissioned project, "golden bottles" for Madwell, a women's clothing store.

Mimicking the metal-like color and texture..........

From the beginning to the end (from the left to the right...)

Large amount of hand-made painted golden bottles....almost 300!

Another master piece....(cotton shirt with spray paint and tears...)

Making the Leap: Crossing Borders

The latest review, Wonder Woman: A.I.R. Gallery's Opening Night Trifecta on Brooklyn (The borough)

Making the Leap: Crossing Borders, a group exhibition of Asian-American women artists curated by Renee Riccardo, and organized by Jee Hwang and Kira Greene.

As an international center for art, New York City attracts artists from a multiplicity of cultural, ethnic, and national backgrounds. Making the Leap: Crossing Borders features the work of 14 Asian-American Immigrant artists who confront issues of identity, separation from the familiar, and deviation from conservative social structures and gender roles with diverse perspectives and methods.The artists in Making the Leap: Crossing Borders confront the reality of their new situations by challenging preconceived notions of reality. Haejae Lee’s fantastical paintings meld the harsh political propaganda of North Korea with the Western pop culture. The work of Ajean Ryan investigates Western fairy tales by rewriting and re-narrating the stories that Ryan tells her own bi-racial daughter, while Deniz Tirpanci’s collage Dinner Party depicts multicultural reality by acknowledging the chaos, displacement and discomfort of this reality.Notions of adaptation and assimilation are dealt with directly in arresting photographic and video pieces. Arin Yoon documents the everyday lives of Korean-American women in Northern New Jersey, and Naoko Wowsugi examines language problems and stereotypes many Asian immigrants face in her humorous and compelling video Frank. Kyoung Eun Kang creates a beautiful metaphorical struggle of adaptation, as she contrasts stones sent from her Korean mother with New York City Streets. And the sculptural work of Saeri Kiritani entitled 100 lbs of Rice addresses the shocking dietary changes immigrants face.Traditional art forms and modern realities collide as the artists reconcile temporal, cultural, and technological differences. Sin-ying Ho blends customary porcelain vases and Pop Culture imagery using computer decal transfer techniques. Suyeon Na photographs herself in the public sphere of New York City, as she wears native clothing traditionally intended to hide Asian women. And traditional ink drawing collides and interacts with computer animation in Chao-Ying Lin and Yen-Ting Chung’s breathtaking video piece Nest.Four of the artists specifically address physical and gendered identity. Jeesoo Shin documents herself as a character in the Asian subculture cosplay, and undergoes dramatic identity changes that subvert traditional expectations of Asian women. Yi-Hsin Tzeng pours paint over her shaved head in her video The Last Painting, challenging her own personal physical boundaries as well as those Asian women experience globally. Yijun Liao boldly questions the roles of sex, power, gender, race, and age as she photographs and exhibits the taboo – her relationship with a young immigrant. Gyung Jin Shin also uses her body as a medium in her performance video Smiley Suicide, where Shin herself exists as a field where opposite values, meanings, and emotions meet to ultimately deny a standard or fixed identity.

Each of these 14 artists has a unique experience as an immigrant, woman, and artist. The past personal experiences and cultural dialogue these artists bring to Making the Leap ultimately express a dynamic and plural vision of what being an Asian-American woman means now.

SKIN: a multimedia exhibition

SKIN is presented as part of the 6-8 MONTH PROJECT created by Kara Walker, in conversation with Eungie Joo, as an alternative space for artists, writers, curators, and others interested in creative work that extends beyond the commercial spaces of galleries, museums, and publications. Walker opened her studio to give artists of color a space to express their work and to collaborate across multiple disciplines and boundaries.

"The Last Painting in Modernism" (2008)
I can say this is the most often shown piece I have so far. I don't know why...I miss the feeling and the process of shaving hair, the state of being Nothing.

Artists, audience with Kara Walker, one of my favorite contemporary artists. (photo by Natalie Havlin) Thank you for your generosity and kindness.

My curators and friends, Jian Chen (left) and Bronwynne Pereira (right) This is the best show and opening I had ever been...Thank you so much!

Artist Cheto Castellano is working on our audience....

Hair artist, Khane Kutzwell is working on audience......

Artist Coco Rico is doing one live performance.

SKIN is seamless, endless, connective, and porous. This multimedia exhibition explores the possibilities of rethinking media consumption as shared skin, evoking and awakening visitors’ senses of taste, touch, and smell through onscreen images and performance. As we collectively digest images, side-by-side embrace skin, so too do we create memories beyond the tangible experience of watching and feeling. The film/video and performance presented feature the sexually, gender, and racially queer and marginalized. They play with the boundaries of visual surfaces.

Watermill Center Residency

Yi-Hsin participated one special residency in Southampton, Long Island. It is Watermill Center, which is founded by artistic director Robert Wilson, an legend figure in theater. The purpose for this two-week residency is to aid its 17th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit, “Paradiso.” Duirng the residency, Yi-hsin designed a series of special perfume bottles and one performance, "Nice to Meet You."

Vain Glorious Watermill Paradisco on New York Times


Behaving Oddly in the Hamptons on New York Times
Yi-hsin saw lots of people and celebrities there but she did not know most of them. Her only mission is to shake hands and then say: Nice to meet you!

Yellow Mask

First Performing Piece!

I try to put on my "painting," and then interact with audience. I finished this monster-like yellow mask, when I had my residenct in Vermont Studio Center in March, 2010. The secure environment offers me a valuable chance to push my work into public space. Meanwhile, I also provide all kinds of "Free Service," for example, cleaning, washing dishes, dumping trash, etc. If you need any free service, please email: yihsintzeng@yihsintzeng.com.

Open Studios Patio Party!

Welcome to Studio # 10. This is my first Open Studio at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. you will see my new installation, performance, and the latest magazine: Choc in person!

Click here for more information: http://thecontemporary.org/programming/open-studios-patio-party/

Recently, I finished two new piece for "My Hero Series." It is very strange. After coming to the States, I started to have strong interest in our President, Chiang Kai-shek. However, he is not really our President. In Taiwan, some people hate him very much; some people admire him also very much. One the one hand, the complicated history of Taiwan resulted in his controversial character; on the other hand, he is the person who caused our controversial history. If you want, you can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek. I ate and collected bubble gum for almost one month in order to create a new face for My Dear Hero!

Flip through my magazine on-line!

Brides by YI-HSIN TZENG | BOOK INFO

New Studio in Atlanta Contemporary Art Center!

After graduating from school, studio space becomes the biggest issue in my life. Fortunately, I am awarded this awesome space in the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, which offers me a valuable chance to keep going my art practice.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is an important landmark in Atlanta contemporary art scene. It curates some interesting exhibitions, invites well-known artists or curators to do talk and draw Atlanta-based artists together. I am very honored to become part of this family. Feel free to browse their website: http://www.thecontemporary.org/studio-artists/yi-hsin-tzeng/

Check These Hot Asian Chicks....

Issue 5 / March 2010: Choc

Back Cover + Front Cover
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1257789

My Magazine Project is an on-going reproducing magazine project, which starts from March, 2009. So far, I already have 5 issues. They are all kinds of magazines I collect from my daliy life.
Sorry for being late...I stopped this project about 3 months in order to prepare my life after graduation. The studio space in Atlanta Contemporary Art Center provides me the woderful environment to resume this exciting project.

On my trip back Taipei in summer, 2009, I bought several authentic and popular commercial magazines as my souvenirs for my motherland. Choc (恰女生）is the first magazine in Taiwan devoted to teenager fashion and style. In my work, I mainly adapt images from two~three Taiwanese fashion or cosmetic magazines, "alter" images and then republish into a new magazine. The speciality of this issue is the usage of "Foam." This is not my first time using foam but it is the first time that I use so much amount in "My Magazine." I hope you will enjoy it!