Wang Ya-Hui lives and works in Taipei. She holds a master’s degree in Arts and Technology from the Taipei National University of the Arts. She works across mediums including video, installation, photography and painting. Using mediums of imagery, her practice centres on the peripheral vision of viewers and the intersections of reality and imagery, proposing questions about virtual and real, interior and exterior, the essence of imagery, and viewing experience. Her motifs revolve around the Eastern natural philosophy and the relationship between man and the world. She is interested in the incorporation of Eastern thought into modern life in her examination of contemporary living. Her work with imagery does not concern creating or delineating a certain landscape; instead, it addresses how a landscape is essentially constructed in a moving image.
Wang has held residencies at Helsinki International Artist Programme (2010), Cité des Arts, Paris (2007) and Location One, New York (2006). Her work has been exhibited at the Taipei Biennial (2002 and 2010), the Hors Pistes Film Festival at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008) and the Shanghai Biennale (2006). Recently she held solo exhibitions at Eslite Gallery, Taipei (2019) and the Neuer Kunstverein Giessen (2018). She has received the ACC/Yageo Tech Art Award (Taiwan) and the Taipei Arts Award (Taipei, Taiwan).