Chen Chieh-jen was born in 1960 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, and graduated from a vocational high school for the arts. He currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
In 1980s, the Cold War/Martial Law period in Taiwan, Chen challenged the limits of expression under the Martial Law system and the conservative art establishment with guerrilla-style performance art and underground exhibitions.

In 1996, Chen created a series of photographic and video projects that re-imagine, re-write and re-connect his experience of living in a marginalized region. Working with local citizens, Chen Chieh-jen combines experimental aesthetics with the unique poetic qualities of video to initiate dialogue and connections with audiences around the world. Chen emphasizes the use of visual art to suggest bodily memories, perceptions, elusive states of mind, and hard to articulate atmospheres related to ideological and political topics, especially those in this era of increasing neoliberal domination. His artwork is not only an act of resisting the historical amnesia that surrounds us, but is also about imagining new forms through which a “people’s history” can be written and new possibilities through which a “democracy of diversity” can be achieved.Chen Chieh-jen has held solo exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Redcat art center in Los Angeles; the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid; the Asia Society in New York; and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. Biennales (Triennial) in the Venice, Lyon, São Paulo, Liverpool, Sydney, Istanbul, Taipei, Gwangju, Shanghai, Fukuoka, and the Brisbane. Chen has also participated in photography festivals in Spain, Lisbon and Arles; Chen Chieh-jen was also the recipient of the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation's National Award for Arts in 2009, and the Korean Gwangju Biennale Special Award in 2000.

Born in 1960, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Currently works and lives in Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016	The Bianwen Book I–Chen Chieh-jen Solo Exhibition, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
2015	The Bianwen Book: Images, Production, Action and Documents of Chen Chieh-jen,TheCube Project Space, Taipei
	Realm of Reverberations Returns to Losheng, Losheng Sanatorium, New Taipei City
2013	Chen Chieh-jen, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2012	Happiness Building,Yi-ping Construction Material Factory, Shulin, Taiwan
2010	Empire’s Borders I &II, Long March Space, Beijing
	On the Empire’sBorders: Chen Chieh-jen 1996-2010, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	Empire’s BordersII-Chen Chieh-jen, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2008	Military Court and Prison- Chen Chieh-jen, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2007	Condensation: Five Video Works by Chen Chieh-jen, Asia Society and Museum, New York
2004	Lingchi-Echoes of a Historical Photograph, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca
2002	Lingchi-Echoes of a Historical Photograph, Lien-Fu Garment Factory, Taoyuan
	Chen Chieh-jen, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1998	Revolt in the Soul & Body II, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1997	Revolt in the Soul & Body I, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016	Uprising, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
	Gestures and Archives of the Present: Genealogies of the Future, 2016 Taipei Biennia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	Migration Politics: CAMP at SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copehnagen
	Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art: Weaving & Me, Zhejiang Art Musem, Hangzhou
	Declaration/Documentation: Taipei Biennial 1996-2014, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	Aichi Triennale 2016: Film Presentation Program, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
	Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflection on the Imagination of Asia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
	Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
	Singular Pluralities ∞ Plural Singularities, Artspace, Auckland
	12 Rooms 12 Artists, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
	Time of Others, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
	A Hole in the Sea, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
	The Shadow Never Lie, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
	The Future Is Already Here-It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks, Sydney
	The Dividing Line, Center for Art on Migration Politics, Copenhagen
	Lecture Performance: Realm of Reverberations, Shibaura House, Tokyo
2015	Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflection on the Imagination of Asia, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
	Time of Others – Exploring Boundaries, Differences, and Otherness, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
	Rewind_Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
	The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
	Banned Images-Control and Censorship in East Asian Democracies, nGbK, Berlin
	Mobile M+: Moving Images, Midtown POP, Hong Kong
	Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflection on the Imagination of Asia, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2014	Whorled Explorations, 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale,Aspinwall House, Kochi
	Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale,Power Station of Art, Shanghai
	Asia Triennial Manchester 2014, Museum of Science and Industry．Imperial War Museum North, Manchester
	Home, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
	Tales From the Taiping Era, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
	We Have Never Participated,The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale,OCAT, Shenzhen
	Altering Nativism – Sound Cultures in Post-war Taiwan,MoNTUE, Taipei
2013	West Bund 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and ContemporaryArt, Xuhui Waterfront, Shanghai
	Former West: Notes from Berlin, BAK, Utrecht
	Move on Asia –Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012, ZKM，Karlsruhe
2012	The Great South,1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo
	Pull the Thread: Montage of Attractions, ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz
	Modern Monster, 2012 Taipei Biennial, Shilin Paper Mill, Taipei
	The Unseen, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Border Crossing, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense
	Image Anxiety, PHotoEspaña, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid
	You AreNow Entering______, Centre for Contemporary Art, Londonderry
	Boundaries on the Move– a Cross-culture Dialogue,Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art,Tel Aviv-Yafo
2011	Migrant Workers in Taiwan –Exhibition of Labor, Kaohsiung Museum of Labor, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
	VIDEONALE—Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
	The Walls that Divide Us, Apexart, New York, U.S.A.
	Past Desire, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
	Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow
	The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind,4thFotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, Mannheim Kunsthalle & Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, Mannheim& Ludwigshafen& Heidelberg
	Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever, 6th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg
	Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin
2010	Rehearsal, 8th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	There is always a cup of sea to sail in, 29th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo,   Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo
	The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
	The 4th Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff
2009	The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	NS Harsha: Nations & Chen Chieh-jen: Factory, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London
	The 21st Century, The Feminine Century, The Century of Diversity and Hope, 2009 Internal Incheon Women Artists' Biennial, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon
	Foreign Affairs, 53th Biennale di Venezia-Taiwan Pavilion, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice
	Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
	A Factory, A Machine, A Body…- Archaeology and Memory of Industrial Spaces, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de la UNAM de México, Mexico City
	Fact and Fiction: Recent Works from the UBS Art Collection, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Biennial Cuvée 09, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
	Vacuumnoise, Trafo - House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
2008	Prospect.1, New Orleans Biennial, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
	Home, Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts，Taichung
	Corporeal / Technoreal, Mediations Biennale, Poznan
	Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the present day, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
	Farewell to Post-Colonialism, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Memoria- Casting a Gaze, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto-CAMK, Kumamoto
	Memories for Tomorrow: Work from The UBS Art Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	Tiefenrausch (Rapture of the Deep): Stream of Forgotten Memories, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
	Crossing Values, les Ateliers de Rennes – biennale d'art contemporain, Rennes
	Biennial Cuvée 08, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
	Art is for the Spirit: Work from The UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
	Encounter the landscape – The individual and his self-formation in the social transformation,
	Palazzo della Esposizioni, Rome
	Under the Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, New York
2007	Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary – Optimism in the age of global war, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, İMÇBuilding, Istanbul
	Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
	Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe
	Geopoetics, Subject, class and identity, Centro Guerrero, Granada
	Cloth that Shook the World, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
	The Screen Eye or the New Image –100 vidéos pour repenser le monde, Casino Luxembourg – Forum of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
	World Factory: Resistance and Dreams, Exhibitions & Public Programs Coordinator, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2006	Naked Life, Museum of contemporary Art, Taipei
	Undercurrents 06, Museum of Art in Göteborg, Göteborg
	Equal and Less Equal, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
	Liverpool Biennale: International 06, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
	Fever Variations, Gwangju Biennale 2006, Biennale Hall, Gwangju
	Altered States, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, Gallery 4a, Sydney
	Biennial Cuvée 06, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
	Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
2005	Parallel Realities-Asian Art Now, 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2005, Fukuoka
	This Storm is What We Call Progress, Arnolfini, Bristol
	Variation Xandu, Museum of contemporary Art, Taipei
	The Agony and the Ecstasy, FACT( Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool
	The Experience of Art, 51st Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Venice
	Lisboa Photo 2005, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon
2004	Do You Believe in Reality?, 2004 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	Techniques of the Visible, 2004 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	Work it, SCAPE Biennial, Christchurch
	Slow Rushes - Takes on the Documentary Sensibility in Moving Images from Around Asia and the Pacific, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
	Ruins and Civilization, Eslite Vision Art Space, Taipei
	Histories: Eyelids and Lips, Photo Espaňa 2004, Antigua Fábrica de Tabacos, Madrid
	The Human Condition: The Image of Man in Art, Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat, Barcelona
2003	Shifting Time/ Space, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
2002	Great Theatre of the World, 2002 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
2001	Floating Chimeras - Contemporary Asian Art, Edsvik konst och kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden
	From Iconoclasm to Neo-Iconolatry, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei
	Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Queens Museum of Art, New York
2000	The 31st Rencontres Internationale de la Photographie, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles
	The Mind on the Edge (of the New Centres), Photo Espaňa 2000, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
	Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale de Lyon Contemporary Art, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon
	Man & Space- Art & Human Rights, Gwangju Biennale 2000, Biennale Hall, Gwangju
1999	International Photography Biennale, Centro de la Imagen, México City
	Close to Open, 48th Biennale di Venezia-Taiwan Pavilion, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice
1998	Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, Routes, 24th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo
	Site of Desire, 1998 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1996	The Quest for Identity-Sexuality and Power, 1996 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Award
2018	The 12th Annual Artist Award, Award of Art China, China
2009	The 13th National Award for Arts, The National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
2008	PULSE Prize, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA
2000	The Special Prize, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea