（Taiwan, b.1962）
Yang Jen-Ming (Taiwan, b. 1962), born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, currently lives and works in Taipei. He holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. His artistic practice has evolved through various stages. His early series, “Black Water” and “Intellectuals,” employed murky, chaotic, and heavy imagery to reflect the atmosphere of the times. In his mid-career series, “Unstable Connections,” he explored infinite possibilities through minimalist geometry, fragmentation, and layering. Yang views painting as a continuous process of contemplation, with the final moment of stopping his brush signifying a state of condensation. His recent works create meditative spaces, using subtle shifts in monochromatic tones to build blurred visual fields. At the lower edge of his canvases, he incorporates square formats as a rational cut, balancing emotional intensity with structured clarity, oscillating between dreamlike and realistic realms. Yang’s works are permanently collected by institutions such as National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Yang Jen-Ming centers his creative practice around symbolic language, exploring how thought manifests throughout the process of existence. His works are largely grounded in geometric vocabulary, refined through formal treatment to express a tension and balance between rationality and emotion. This formal exploration is not only evident in his compositions but also extends to his creative methods, which intertwine three-dimensional cutting with painting, reflecting a deep concern for the relationship between form and meaning. The work "Thoughts and Words: Back and Forth" presents the psychological journey of thought from inception to realization through abstract painting. The scattered composition and rhythm in the piece symbolize the movement and transformation of thoughts across different mental states, aiming to capture the fluid, interdependent relationship between thinking and action.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 "Obsession with The Transparent Depth - Yang JenMing solo exhibition", A. Heritage. Modern Art Museum, Taoyuan,Taiwan
2019 "Obsession -Yang JenMing solo exhibition", VT ARTSALON, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 "Ideas and statements - Yang JenMing solo exhibition", 182artspace, Tainan, Taiwan
2013 "Yang Jen-Ming Solo Exhibition", Impressions Contemporary Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 "Yang Jen-Ming Solo Exhibition", Impressions Contemporary Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 "Ustable Tie", Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 "Poetry or Not", Hsinbin Pier, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1999 "Poetry or Not", Former Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 "Tumbler", Former Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
1997 "A Big aAureola", Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1996 "Human, All Too Human – The Great Halo", Zhen Ping Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
1994 "New Plants Emerging from Black Water", Zhen Ping Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
1992 "New Plants Emerging from Black Water – After Transplantation", Taiwan Neya, Taiwan
1991 "Between Imagination and Reality", American Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1985 "Reappearance of the Cube", Nan Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 "Hantoo Kyoki: Taiwan and Japan Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition", Artist Café Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
2023 "A Journey of Lightness: 25 Years of Hantoo", Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2021 "Hantoo 2021: Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining", PINGTUNG Art Museum, Pingtung, Taiwan
2018 "Fight Club-Hantoo 20th", Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 "Hardcore Rally with the Hantoo Art Group", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2016 "Border Crossing Post-Paradise: Hantoo Art Group and Taiwanese Contemporary Art", Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan
2016"Hantoo Art Group in Penang", Daiichi Art Space, Penang, Malaysia
2012 "Local to Local 'Taipei in Busan", OpenSpace Bae Gallery, Busan, Korea
2011 "The Sentimental Boys!", Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2010 "Amazement and Astonishment-Hantoo Art Group’s Adventure to the West", Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2009 "Madden Reality: Post-Taipei Art Group", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2007 "Mou.i.kai—The Exhibition by Hantoo Art Group", Kuandu museum of fine art,
Taipei, Taiwan
2006 "Macro Vision, Micro Analysis, Multiple Reflections - Contemporary Art in Taiwan
Since 1987", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
1996 "Taipei Biennial: The Quest for Identity", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1993 "New Plant Grown from Black Water", The 8th Asia Art Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan
1992 "Taipei Art Group - The Power of Taiwan", Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1992"The Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Art, 1992", Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan