1975 born in Qingtian, P.R. China
1979 family emigrated to Austria
– Life now is in Vienna, Taipei and Yokohama
1994-1995 Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Vrije Richtig), Amsterdam (NL)
1996-2000 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Masterclass M. Pistoletto), Vienna (AT)
2009 Founding member of Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2010-2020), Taipei (TW)
2021 Board member (vice president) of the Vienna Secession, Vienna (AT)
AWARDS/ARTIST IN RESIDENCES
1999-2000 Schindler Artist in Residence Award, Los Angeles, MAK Center for Arts and Architecture L.A. (US),
– Museum Angewandte Kunst Vienna (AT)
2000 Professor-Hilde-Goldschmidt-Preis, Art Award (AT)
2001 Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst, Austrian State Stipend for Visual Arts (AT)
2001-2002 Artist in Residence, Villa Arson, Nice (FR)
2002-2003 PS1 International Studio Program, New York (US)
2005 Msgr. Otto Mauer-Preis, Otto Mauer Art Award (AT)
2006/2007 Artist in Residence London, Austria Ministry of Culture, London (UK)
2017 Award for Fine Arts of the City of Vienna (AT)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2024 Masterhouse Schlemmer (Gracious Hosts), Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau (DE)
More than real, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau (DE)
2023 König Bookshop, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (DE)
2021 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (TW)
2020 Kuandu Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (TW)
2020 TKG+ Projects, Taipei (TW)
2019 The Artist, the Work and the Exhibition, Kunsthaus, Graz (AT)
2019 The Emperor of China’s Ice, Austrian Sculpture Park (AT)
2018 The Overview Perspective, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (KR)
2016 The Parallax Hanok, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (KR)
2013 Does Europe Matter? Europe (to the power of) n, The Pavilion, Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing (CN)
2011 Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Taipei (TW)
2010 A Short-Story on Forgetting and Remembering, ShugoArts, Tokyo (JP)
2008 Paris Syndrome Public Space, CIGE Art Fair Beijing (CN) Paris Syndrome,
2008 Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou (CN)
2007 Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
2007 Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston (US)
2007 Museum am Ostwall (Studio), Dortmund (DE)
2007 Paris Syndrom Café, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2006 Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux (FR)
2006 gfzk garten and Hei Di shop, garden and shop at Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst Leipzig (DE)
2005 Msgr. Otto Mauer-Preis, Jesuiten Foyer, Vienna (AT)
2005 Annex 14, Bern (CH)
2005 Kunstverein Langenhagen (DE)
2004 Büro Friedrich, Berlin (DE)
2003 Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
2002 MAC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (FR)
2002 Index, Stockholm (SE)
2001 Coming Home. Daily Structures of Life – Version D00, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (DE)
2001 MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Galerie, Vienna (AT)
2001 Art Statement, Basel (CH)
2000 AT MY STAGE, Galerie Vallois / Project Room, Paris (FR)
2000 Emerging artists, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (AT)
2000 Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
1999 Galerie Martin Janda Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna (AT)
1998 Neueröffnung, Raum für Kunst – Anton Lederer, Graz (AT)
1997 still life no.6, kunstbuero, Vienna (AT)
1997 AS I SAW, museum in progress / Der Standard, Vienna (AT)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCES
2024 –
2023 –
2022 Freezing Point, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE)
2021 –
2020 collected #9/#10, Tresor – Kunstforum Wien, Vienna (AT)
2020 The Shouting Valley, The Physics Room, Christchurch (NZ)
2020 The Past is a Foreign Country, Dear Friend, with Michikazu Matsune, Taipei Performing Arts Festival (TW)
2019 The Past is a Foreign Country, together with Michikazu Matsune, Tanzquatier, Vienna (AT)
2019 Migration: Speaking Nearby, Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju (KR)
2019 The Shouting Valley, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (NZ)
2019 Chinese Whisper, MAK, Vienna (AT)
2018 Superposition, Equilibrium & Engagement, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
2018 Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
2018 Cinema Taipei, Bangkok Biennial, Bangkok (TH)
2017 –
2016 Jun Yang / Bruce Yonemoto, MAK Center Los Angeles (US)
2016 Negative Horizon, Hongah Museum Taipei (TW)
2016 New Graz, Narratives from the arrival city, Rotor, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT)
2016 Topotek 1 Exhibition/Office, Topotek 1, Berlin (DE)
2016 Chinese Whispers (M+ Sigg Collection), Kunstmuseum Bern und Zentrum Paul Klee, (CH)
2016 My Body, Your Voice – Roppongi Crossing 2016, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
2016 Discordant Harmony, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (TW)
2015 Jun Yang / Maja Vukoje, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns (AT)
2015 Redefine: Multiple Perspectives and Possibilities in Network Era, Times Museum, Guangzhou, (CN)
2015 Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
2015 The Great Ephemeral, New Museum, New York (US)
2015 What We Call Love, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
2015 The Testimony of Food, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei (TW)
2015 Lee Mingwei and His Relations, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei (TW)
2014 Survival Kit 6 Festival – Utopian City, Riga 2014 European Capital of Culture, Riga, (LV)
2014 Time(less) Signs, ACF Austrian Cultural Forum, London, (UK)
2014 EVA-Experimental Video Art Exhibition, BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, (TH)
2014 Urban Lights Ruhr, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Hamm, (DE)
2014 Things Beyond Our Control, ST PAUL St Gallery One, Auckland, (NZ)
2014 Topophilia, Mabsociety, Shanghai (CN)
2014 This is Authenticity, Golden Threat Gallery, Belfast (IE)
2013 Queens International (screening), Queens Museum, New York City (US)
2013 Cross-Strait Relations, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, New York (US)
2013 Disturbances in the Structure, Art Today Association for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv (BG)
2013 Unknown Forces, MSGÜ Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul (TR)
2013 People’s Park, The Cube, Taipei (TW)
2013 Moving On Asia: Towards a New Art Network, City Gallery, Wellington (NZ)
2013 Anguish & Enthusiasm: What Do You Do With Your Revolution Once You’ve Got It? (screening), Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK)
2012 Roundtable, 9th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
2012 Zeit(lose) Zeichen, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
2012 City Within the City, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (AU)
2012 Pilot Micro Multiplex | Mall, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (AE) Anderenorts, rotor, Graz (AT)
2012 Passage, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
2012 The Other’s Other, Artspace, Sydney (AU)
2012 What a Wonderful World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (JP)
2012 Scenario 3, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2011 City Within the City, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (KR)
2011 Augmenting the World, Taipei Digital Art Festival, Bopiliao, Taipei (TW)
2011 Scenario 2, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2011 Scenario 1, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2011 Institution for the Future, Asia Triennial Manchester, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester (UK)
2011 Zonen Prekär, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2011 A Wedding, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (CN)
2011 Beziehungsarbeit. Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
2011 Cinema Alley (screening), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Sydney (AU)
2011 Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions (screening), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (JP)
2010 Welt als Kulisse, Galerie im Traxispalais, Innsbruck (AT)
2010 Platform 10, Samuso: and Art Sonje Center, Seoul (KR)
2010 Forum Biennial 2010, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, (TW)
2010 Setouchi International Art Festival, Fukutake House, Megijima, Setouchi (JP)
2010 Open Light in Privates Spaces – 1st Biennial for Int. Light Art; European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010 (DE)
2010 LichtKunstRaum, St. Reinoldi Church, Dortmund, European Capital of Culture Ruhr (DE)
2010 2010 Cinema, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou (CN)
2010 Looking Through Film: Traces of Cinema and Self-constructs in Contemporary Art,
2010 OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen (CN)
2010 Taipei Contemporary Art Center Tokyo Branch, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo (JP)
2010 Donated Works Exhibition, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei (TW)
2009 Work in Progress: How Do Artists Work?, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (CN)
2009 The Grand Illusion, Taiwan International Festival Cultural Gallery of the National Concert Hall, Taipei (TW)
2009 Because it’s like that now, it won’t stay that way, Arsenal Gallery (PL)
2009 10 Years Rotor, Rotor, Graz (AT)
2009 Platform09 in Kimusa, Samuso: and Art Sonje Center, Kimusa (Former Defense Ministry), Seoul (KR)
2009 Discoveries, Sh Contemporary, Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai (CN)
2009 Asian Village (screening), Wiener Festwochen, Top Kino Cinema, Wien (AT)
2009 Post.o, MOCA Taipei and New Day Street Studio Pusin, Pusin (TW)
2008 Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW)
2008 Boom Boom, 4th Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (KG)
2008 Laughing in a foreign language, Hayward Gallery Southbank, London (UK)
2008 Where the lions are, Para-site, Hong Kong (CN)
2008 Die Lucky Bush, MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (BE)
2008 Eurasia, Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (IT)
2008 LIAF08- Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten Islands (NO)
2007 City Fables, the 5th City on the Move Art Festival, Taipei Brewery, Taipei (TW)
2007 cross-border, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
2007 Lange nicht gesehen, Museum auf Abruf, Wien (AT)
2007 Between Borders, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (ES)
2007 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen (DE)
2006 Liverpool Biennial International 06, Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)
2006 Naked Life, MoCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei (TW)
2006 traurig sicher, im training, Grazer Kunstverein with sterischer herbst, Graz (AT)
2006 What is positive?, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT); de appel, Amsterdam (NL), Revolver Verlag (DE)
2006 Remapping Mozart, Vienna (AT)
2006 This Land Is My Land… , Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (DE); NGBK – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (DE)
2006 Made in China, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (US)
2006 Unlimited ID, the portrait as concept, Dazibao – Centre de photographies actuelles, Montreal (CA)
2006 The Peninsula. An Artist Film-Video Anthology in 3 Parts + An Exhibition Part of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2006, Singapore History Museum, Singapur (SG)
2006 through popular expression, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (RO)
2006 >M< wie made, manie und mehr, Projektraum “Sonnensegel”, Büro trafo.K, Vienna (AT)
2005 The Experience of Art, La Biennale di Venezia, 51st International art Exhibition, Venice (IT)
2005 Lebt und Arbeitet in Wien II, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
2005 ID Troubles – US Visit, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, New York (USA)
2005 RADIO STATION, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
2005 Experimental Video Artists Compilation, THAI-GERMAN Contemporary Art Exchange 05, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne (DE)
2005 Andre/Others, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand (NO)
2005 personal spaces, Pavel Haus, Laafeld / Potrna (AT)
2005 Projekt Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (DE)
2005 We are the world, Reina Sofia Art Center, Madrid (ES)
2005 ways in / ways out, Kunstverein Horn, Horn (AT)
2004 Ficciones documentales, Fundacio „la Caixa“, Barcelona (ES); Palma de Mallorca (ES)
2004 Daheim in der Fremde – Fremd in der Heimat, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn (DE)
2004 SHAKE, OK-Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (AT); SHAKE, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (DE)
2004 SHAKE, Villa Arson – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice (FR)
2004 Why not live for art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
2004 We are the world, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (US)
2004 Öffnung: Zeitgenössische Kunst in der Hofburg, Hofburg, Vienna (AT)
2004 Artprojx Cinema Series 2, Prince Charles Cinema, London (UK)
2003 transkulturell, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck (DE)
2003 PS 1, New York (US)
2003 Real utopia, Kulturhauptstadt 2003, Graz (AT)
2003 Natürlich gebaut – Die Landschaft zwischen Konstruktion und Narration, Helmhaus, Zürich (CH)
2002 Import/Export, Villa Arson, Nice (FR)
2002 Get out!, Galleria Arsenale, Bialystok (PL)
2002 Maverick, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH)
2002 Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (DE)
2002 Der globale Komplex, OK-Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (AT)
2002 Der globale Komplex, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (AT)
2002 Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz (DE)
2002 Nicolaij Contemporary Art Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen (DK)
2001 Encounter, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
2001 in the meantime…, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
2001 Heimaten, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2001 9. Videonale, Bonn (DE)
2001 International Festival of documentary film, Marseille (FR)
2001 New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
2001 Zacheta, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL)
2000 man muss ganz schön viel lernen um hier zu funktionieren, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
2000 Biennale di Torino, Torino (IT)
2000 If I was in LA, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (US)
2000 Sreenclimbing, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg (DE)
2000 Import Export, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT); Museum Moderner Kunst, Arnhem (NL)
2000 Centre de la photographie, Paris (FR)
1999 Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors (FR)
1999 Studiocity, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
1999 it´s comfy, Galerie Skuc, Ljubljana (SI)
1999 publi©domain, 3. Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie 1999, Graz (AT)
1999 Me and my ID, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
1998 Salon Mladih, Raum für Kunst/Graz at Gallery Nova, Zagreb (HR)
1998 Osmica, multidescipline workshop, Zagrajec (SI)
1998 Junge Szene, Secession/museum in progress, Vienna (AT)
1998 2 plateaux II, mezzanin, Vienna (AT)
1998 Diversities, Spices & Academies, Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
1998 nach vier kommt fünf, Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
1997 Habitus Abito Abitare – Progetto Arte, Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
PUBLICATIONS / CURATING / OTHER PROJECTS
2019 The Emperor of China’s Ice, with illustrations by Yuuki Nishimura, Verlag für Moderner Kunst, Vienna (AT)
2019 Das Eis des Kaisers von China, with illustrations by Yuuki Nishimura, Verlag für Moderner Kunst, Vienna (AT)
2018 Jun Yang The Monograph Project Vol 4-6, Barbara Steiner (Ed.), jovis, Berlin
2015 Jun Yang The Monograph Project Vol 1-3, Barbara Steiner (Ed.), jovis, Berlin
2004 Jun Yang, Barbara Steiner (Ed.): Art Works – Autobiography, Thames & Hudson, London (English, French edition);
– Art Works – Autobiographie, Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim (German Edition)
2003 Co-curator (with Barbara Steiner): writing IDENTITY – on autobiography in art,
– GfZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE/RESTAURANT PROJECTS
2017 Café Leopold, Leopold Museum, Vienna (AT)
2012 +o house, residential house, Yokohama (JP)
2012 ra’mien go, restaurants, Vienna (AT)
2011 Paris Syndrom Hotel, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2009/2010 University of Bern new lecture building, public art work, Bern (CH)
2007-2010 Paris Syndrom Café, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2006-2011 gfzk garten, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (DE)
2005 Landhaus II, waiting area in the new governmental building Landhaus II, Innsbruck (AT)
2004 Tien Tsin, restaurant, Vienna (AT)
2003 ra’an, restaurant, Vienna (AT)
2002 ra’mien, restaurant, Vienna (AT)