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Wen Chia-Ning / Wen Gum Gum (b. 1994, Hsinchu, Taiwan) lives and works in Taipei. She holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from Taipei National University of the Arts and studied media art at Merz Akademie, Germany.
Practicing as an artist, designer, and independent publisher across painting, imagery, and video installation, she positions her work as research and image intervention to challenge dominant structures of seeing. Grounded in Camp sensibility and absurd narrative, her practice subverts aesthetic hierarchies and gender frameworks. Inspired by digital imagery of deformed bodies that are unsexy yet objectified, she translates online fragments into a dynamic dialogue between screen and paintbrush. Within displaced compositions, she probes figurative representation, turning deformed bodies into sites of queer resistance and defamiliarization while continuously engaging Camp, painting, appropriation, visual essay, and gender performativity as core keywords in her practice.
A finalist for the 3rd CTBC Painting Prize (2025) with her painting series We Are More Similar Than Different, she received support from the Tianmei Art Foundation along with Visual Arts Creation Grants from the National Culture and Arts Foundation (2024, 2026). Selected solo exhibitions include Mind the Mindless (Yáo, Taichung, 2025), Of Mice and Women (YIRI ARTS, Taipei, 2023), and Good Will Hunting (FreeS Art Space, Taipei, 2022). Her works have been exhibited in Taipei, Manila, Copenhagen, and Germany. Her independent publishing and videos include presenting the zine Depressed Cart at HFBK Hamburg (2024), and exhibiting the video work Love Your Time at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (2019) and the Busan Biennale (2024).
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在創作中她對自己的工作定向為研究，寫作，影像製造者，藉由繪畫，對既有的觀看結構提出質疑。自 2016 年起，她將創作視為一種「圖像介入」，透過模糊性別與常規的形象挑戰主流身體政治。其實踐深植於坎普（Camp）感性與荒誕敘事，顛覆既有美學與性別框架。受網路文化中「不性感卻仍被物化」的變形身體啟發，她將網路圖像殘片轉譯為螢幕與畫筆間的對話，並在碎片化且錯置的構圖中試探具象表現的邊界，使變形身體成為酷兒抵抗（Queer Resistance）與去熟悉化的場域，並持續以坎普、繪畫、挪用、視覺散文、性別操演作為創作中的關鍵字。
曾以繪畫系列作品「我們的相似之處多於差異」入圍第三屆中國信託當代繪畫獎（2025），並獲天美藝術基金會贊助與國家文化藝術基金會視覺藝術創作補助（2024、2026）。重要個展包括「分心的種類」（窯座，臺中，2025）、「老鼠並不笨」（伊日藝術計劃，臺北，2023）及「善的意志會狩獵」（FreeS Art Space 福利社，臺北，2022），作品曾展出於臺北、馬尼拉、哥本哈 根及德國等地。 在跨領域實踐上，她曾於德國漢堡美術學院（HFBK Hamburg）發表小誌《沮喪購物車》（2024）；影像作品「愛你的時間」參與「海盜電台」計畫，先後展出於關渡美術館 （2019）與釜山雙年展（2024）。
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