ARTIST TO WATCH - Chin Chih Yang 

2020 NYFA Hall of Fame

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Chin Chih Yang 楊金池 

- 2020 NYFA Hall of Fame artist

“It’s about human-made and nature-made disasters and our relationships to them. 

These two themes are core to my work,” - Chin Chih Yang 

Mobile Quarantine House
Connect and Protect - COVID-19 (Wuhan Coronavirus)
Location: Manhattan, NYC
Time: Friday, March 20, 2020 3-6 pm
Which is worse, the sickness or the fear? Artist Chin Chih Yang in a mock demonstration about COVID-19 (Wuhan coronavirus). This demonstration was intended to remind ourselves about the rules we should follow to keep ourselves virus-free, but also to have a laugh. Let's not get too nervous about the coronavirus!
A few things we've had to learn here over the past few weeks:
1. Want to avoid coronavirus? First, Stop Touching Stuff.
2. Avoid close contact 3. Stay home if you’re sick 4. Cover coughs and sneezes
5. Wear a mask if you are sick 6. Clean and disinfect

 Connect and Protect - COVID-19 (Wuhan Coronavirus), 2020, Location: Manhattan, NYC

Right: Amazon - Decomposing tree trunks, burnt wood and ashes, images from current news. 2019, QCC Art Gallery/CUNY installation view

below: Kill Me or Change, still image from video, performance taken place at Flushing Corona Park, Queens, NY

About Chin Chih Yang 楊金池

Multidisciplinary artist Chin Chih Yang was born in Taiwan, and has resided for thirty seven years in New York City. He studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan (BFA, 1986) and at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (Master of Science, 1994). In 2020, he will be inducted into NYFA's Hall of Fame. In a 2009 review Holland Cotter of the New York Times called one of his projects “a magical tunnel of love.” He has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and The Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation. He was awarded fellowships from the Vilcek Foundation, and in 2018 he was at Yaddo. His 2019 artist residency was at MASS MoCA Studio, and in 2020 he will be a Labor resident at Santa Fe Art Institute.

Chin Chih Yang claims a unified view of the interconnected segments of society and the physical environment in which it functions. Yang's work is related to politics, religion, art history, the environment, and global harmony. Starting in 2013, and still seeking a proper venue for this work, Yang has carefully planned a daring performance project named Watch Us! Together We Can do it for which he is seeking patronship. We request your loving contribution to enable Yang’s dream. Taken as a whole, this work articulates his vision of a world towards which we can strive.

View of the "Reclaiming the Vision" exhibition at QCC Art Gallery/CUNY 2019

[to be continued]

Essays / interviews :

• The Exploits of Chin Chih Yang: Missions Impossible       by Lily Wei
• Chih Chin Yang: Ecological Art in Times of Change          by Johnathan Goodman
• Chin chih Yang                                                                   by Yang  by Jeffery Grunthaner
• Harry Spiller in conversation with Matha Wilson/ of the Franklin Furnace Foundation. 
•  (include a video and essay)
• An introductory interview between Chin Chih Yang and Luchia Lee