Highest Education | Ph.D. in Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University
Education
Career
Yunnia Yang is a curator, art historian, and art critic based in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her M.A. in Art History from St. Petersburg State University in Russia in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Arts from National Taiwan Normal University in 2009 with the thesis “Study on ‘the Paranoiac-Criticism’ of Salvador Dalí,” for which she was awarded the S-An Aesthetics Award in 2010. Since 2011, she has launched a long-term curatorial research project titled “The Postmodern Condition in the Contemporary Art of Russia and Eastern Europe.” Her representative curatorial projects include:
| 2013 |
The Apocalyptic Sensibility: The New Media Art from Taiwan (WRO Media Art Biennale, Poland)
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| 2014–2015 |
Imagining Crisis (MOCA Taipei, 2014; contemporary art centers in Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Colombia; and the 34th Art Film Festival in Italy, 2014–2015; Loop Barcelona, 2018)
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| 2015 |
Taiwan VIDEA: The Taiwanese Avant-Garde Video Exhibition (2015 Asolo Art Film Festival; Loop Barcelona, 2018)
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| 2016 |
Eco as a Verb (35th Asolo Art Film Festival, Focal Theme Video Exhibition)
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| 2017 |
TAIWAN VIDEA: 2017 Selection (North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany)
Fibering – Eco as a Verb (OUR Museum at NTUA, New Taipei City)
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| 2018 |
Taiwan Animation for Kids (WRO Art Center, Poland)
The In-Between State of Mind: Eastern Europe/Russia Video Research Project (36th Asolo Art Film Festival, 2018; Germany, Latvia, Slovenia, Hungary, 2019)
Fibering – Eco as a Verb (Poland and Germany)
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| 2019 |
Behind the Mask: Rose of Modernity (Photography collection from the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; exhibited at the Krasnoyarsk Museum as part of the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Russia)
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In addition, Yunnia Yang was invited to serve as an international jury member for the 34th and 35th Asolo Art Film Festivals. She was ultimately selected by the international jury board as President of the 34th Asolo Art Film Festival’s International Jury Board.