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Yong-Ning Tzeng

Yong-Ning Tzeng

Tzeng draws slowly in a repetitive mode, allowing his body to toil day after day. His body steps into the artwork in this intensive painting activity, his hands and the medium intertwined, further developing novelty thinking in this process of handiwork.

MediumMixed Media
LocationTaiwan
Date of birth1979
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Zeng Yongning's paintings inherit the calligraphic lines of ink wash, transitioning from brush to modern writing tools like ballpoint pens, from soft pens to hard pens. The ball of the ballpoint pen rolls back and forth, and the seeping ink gathers dots and lines into blocks on the canvas. The infinite extension, overlapping, replication, and regeneration of dots in the artwork create a composition of soft lines and block structures. The artist intertwines and layers rich colors and lines, belonging to a deep consciousness with irrational yet intuitive sensory experiences, allowing lines to wander on paper and imparting a sense of space and temporal flow to the artwork. Recently, the artist has expanded from ballpoint pens to explore more media such as ink, mineral pigments, colored pencils, and acrylics, striving for more precise translations of personal perceptions and experiences.

Born in 1978 in Changhua, Taiwan, Zeng Yongning graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Graduate Institute of Arts Creation at National Taipei University of the Arts and is now a full-time creator. As an artist with an academic background, Zeng chooses not conceptually driven actions or media developed through techniques like oil painting, acrylic, ink wash, or gouache as expressive pathways, but instead primarily uses ballpoint pens. In 2005, his work "Wild Garden" was selected for the Taipei Arts Awards, and in 2006, he received the 9th Lee Chung-sheng Creative Award, among others. Initially, he used ballpoint pens to embellish his ink wash paintings to spark inspiration. However, the remarkable effects produced by the ballpoint pen led him to explore the possibilities of ballpoint pen art, shifting his creative focus to shine on the world stage. In his works, the lines and ink dots of the ballpoint pen return to the most basic and ordinary forms of expression, depicting primarily repetitive, intricate, and geometrically strong patterns. In the development of his forms, he achieves infinite expansion in the simplest manner, creating non-narrative images often referred to generically as "gardens" in his early works. Zeng Yongning's choice of creative media and its associated expressive language challenges the boundaries of art or academic painting. This provocation is premised on pushing the limits and taboos within this challenging field, exploring norms and logic to their furthest extremes. His works have been exhibited multiple times in international exhibitions such as L'Espace culturel Bonnefoy in France, and have toured in Germany, France, the United States, Hungary, Italy, Hong Kong, and China. They are also included in the permanent collections of important galleries and museums both domestically and internationally, including the White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and the Changhua Cultural Bureau, making him one of the most prominent young artists in Taiwan today.

Curriculum vitae

Yong-Ning Tzeng
Born in 1978

2010 Graduated from Taipe National University of the Arts(TNUA) majored in Oil Painting

Solo Exhibitions
2023 "Forgotten Landscape Changhua Life Aesthetics Museum", Changhua
2023 "You Zizai Soka Art Space", Tainan, Taiwan
2022 "The Original Ecology of Faith", Arts Center, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2021 "Follow the Nature Soka Art Space", Tainan, Taiwan
2020 "Sandao View", Coats Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 "Brilliant Glory", Changhua Art Museum, Changhua, Taiwan
2016 "Fenghong", Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2016 "Spread", Fei Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2015   “Starts”VTartsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
2014   “Bloom”Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan 
          “Convolution”Nou gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2013   “Collection”Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
          “Return to the outset“ Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
          “Compelling Glamour" Accton Art Foundation, HsinChu, Taiwan
2012   “Traces of Serenity" Beyond Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Rustling Autumn”Nou gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Wild Fire”,Lieu Commun,
           “Wild Fire”, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, France
           “Bloom and Flord”,L’Espace culturel Bonnefoy
           ”Bloom and Flord”,L’Espace culturel Bonnefoy, Toulouse, France
2011   “Myriad”Pemalamo Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Florescense", Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2010   “Florescence and Resplendent”, Beyond Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Rhythm of Life II”, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
2009   “Rhythm of Life”Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2007   “Flowers. of four Seasons Sceneries ”, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006   “Li Chun-Shan Award Winner Exhibition”," National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan;Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan
2005   “Barbarian Garden ”,Nanbei Gallery, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
          “Mental Imagery”, Taichung City Seaport Art Center, Taiwan
2004   “Mental Imagery”Dynamic Gallery, Taichung City Dadun Cultural Center, Taiwan 
 
Group Exhibitions
2023 "The Future of the Future", Xian Gallery, Tainan
2022 "Variations: Contemporary Art Group Exhibition", Android Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 "Sendai Reclaiming Art Space", Sendai, Japan
2018 "Island of the Islands", Golden Town, Yokohama, Japan
2018 "Future Theater", Guandu Art Museum, Taipei
2017 "Yitong Park Limited Edition", Yitong Park, Taipei
2017 "Extraordinary Soka 25th Anniversary Exhibition", Yunfei Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2016 "Those who are close to Mo", Biangsang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 "Very Addicted", Yinchuan Art Museum, Yinchuan, China
2015 "The Very Short Story of the Future", Welfare Society, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 "Spring in the South", Pingtung Art Museum, Pingtung, Taiwan
2013 "Platform of Imagination-Future Vision", Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2013 "The Future on the Dining Table - Homes and Artists", Guandu Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2013   “Inter-vision Inter : A Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,Taichung, Taiwan / National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2012   “Crush on EMU”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan D’abord les Forrets…/ opus 3,Château villain Paris, France
2011   “Taïwainpics.doc Art contemporain Taiwanais”, EX GIL Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
           “Taïwainpics.doc Art contemporain Taiwanais”, Museo d'Arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
            “Taiwan Calling-- The Phantom of Liberty / Elusive Island” Ludwig Museum- Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary 2011, Nou Gallery, Singapore
            “Drawing Now: An Exhibition of Contemporary Taiwanese Drawing
           ”Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2010   “YES TAIWAN: 2010 Taiwan Biennial”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
            “Art Tea Exhibition”, Nou Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2010   “YES TAIWAN: 2010 Taiwan Biennial”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
           “Another Book”, G-Dot Art Space, Songzhuang, Tongzhou, Beijing, China
           “Continuation: Special Exhibition of Li Chun-Shen Modern Painting Award Winners”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
2009   “Taiwainpics.doc Art contemporain Taiwanais”, Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris,France Dream in a contemporary Secret Garden 
           “Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden”, New York Taipei Cultural Centre, New York, United States
            “Rays of Spring Light”, A ART Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2008   “Art Fair 21”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
           “Art Taipei 2008”, Exhibition Hall 1, Taipei World Trade Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
2007   “Art Fair 21”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
           “Fen-Le-Ding(Very Fun Park)”, East Taipei Contemporary Art Exhibition, Eslite Bookstore, Fubon Insurance Building, Taipei East District, Taiwan
            Art Taipei 2007, Exhibition hall 2, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
           “New Voice of Art: Post-graduates Invitational Art Exhibition”, NHCUE Art Space,Art Centre of Chienkuo Technology University ; Art Centre of Lunghwa University of Science and Technology
2006   “Flowers”, Aki Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
           “New Frame of Mind :Taiwan Emerging Artists’Exhibition”, Chienkuo Technology University
2005    “2005 Taipei Arts Award”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2004   “Ink and Mind: Creation without Limits”, Chan-liu Art Museum, Taoyuan, Taiwan
           “2004 Taipei Arts Award”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2003   “Ink and Mind: Creation without Limits”, Kaohsiung Fine Art Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Public Art
           “Abutment painting activity at Dahu Park and Donghu Stations on Wenshan-Neihu Line”, Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation

Awards
2008   Taiwan Fellowship Program, Asian Cultural Council
2006   The 9th Li Chun-shen Visual Arts Award
2005   “Barbarian Garden“, Judges’award ,Taipei Arts Awards
2004 Merit Award, The 2nd Taoyuan Creation Award
           “Future View”, Judges’Award, Taipei Arts Awards
2002   Winner of Chinese Painting award: Huang-xi Award, The 3rd Huang-xi

Fine Art Exhibition
2001   3rd prize, Tong-yi Trophy,“A Kiss to the Spirit of the Future: Photography Contest”
2000   2nd prize,“Lukang Hundred Scenes: Photography Contest”

Collections
2016 Taiwan Ministry of Culture Art Bank
2015 Taiwan Ministry of National Defense
2013 White Rabbit Art Museum, Australia
2012   “The Wild Fire”(40), White Rabbit Gallery, Australia
2012   “Bloom”(14), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
2010   “Splendid ”(8), National Yang Ming University
2007   “Barbarian Garden, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2006   “Future View”(9), Long Yen Foundation
2002   Inner World(10), Changhua County Cultural Affairs Bureau
 
Artist-in-Residence
2016 Zhangjiajie International Painting Creation Camp, China
2012   Lieu Commun “Lieu Commun”, Toulouse, France
2010   The 5th International Creative Painting Workshop, YUZI Paradise, Guilin
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