chiang yomei | london | u.k.Chiang Yomei: Born in 1961, Taipei, Taiwan, to a Chinese-Russian father and a Chinese-German mother, Yomei studied art and literature at Skidmore College, upstate New York, after a traditional Chinese education in Taiwan. As a child in Taiwan she studied traditional Chinese landscape painting with the contemporary master Hu Nian-Tzu, life drawing with Li Der, and watercolour with Wang Lan. She began writing poetry at the age of ten. Later she moved to Germany to study the German language in Lüneburg and Göttingen. In 1981, she moved again, to England, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in the History and Theory of Art and English Literature from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1984. At Kent, Yomei studied under the eminent modern art historian and critic, Dr. Stephen Bann. After Kent, Yomei continued to pursue the field of art history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, specialising in Chinese painting and ceramics, studying respectively under the tutelage of Dr. Roderick Whitfield and Dr. Rosemary Scott, both eminent scholars in their fields. From 1989, Yomei began practising Fine Art in a more concentrated capacity, producing paintings, drawings, collages, photography, installations, performances, poetry, and a collection of short stories. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree from Winchester School of Art in 1994. A devoted Buddhist practitioner, she also nurtures a strong interest in spiritual and esoteric philosophies as well as modern physics, the pursuit of which, along with her great love of music have become inextricably linked to her creative work. A multi-media artist, she is currently working on an artist’s book based on her poetry and a multi-media project in Asia, “Crossing”. Yomei Chiang lives in London with her husband and young daughter. Artist’s Statement: “Art is not a singular activity. The artist only begins the work; it is always the viewer who completes it. As each viewer must bring a unique set of values and conditions to the work, we cannot know how a work will be received each time. Life itself is continually in flux; nothing is ever fixed. Between dualities there is a profound and luminous space that is free of expectation and longing, of a linear concept of time. It is in this 'in-between space' that we encounter our true faces, where we meet each other on a more fundamental, less contrived level.
Exhibitions: “Five Young Contemporary Chinese Artists”, “Selected Graduates, a Year On”, Christie’s Contemporary Chinese Art Sale, Taipei, Sept. 1995 Christie’s Contemporary Chinese Art Sale, June 1996 Christie’s Important 20th Century Chinese Art & Shin Kong Art Museum, Taipei, Sept. 2001 “Panorama of a New Generation”, “Olympia Art Fair 2002” “Christie’s 20th Century Chinese Art Sale”, “On Board the Lotus Express”, solo show “The Golden party: Transformation and Alchemy”, Literature: “Drawing Out Buddha Nature: An Interview with Chiang Yo Mei”, “Chiang Yo Mei - Rhythm and Light - A Journey of the Soul on Canvas”, “From One Space into Another/ The Journey of Chiang Yo Mei”, “Chiang YoMei to display work at Shin Kong Museum”, “Two Chiangs in the Saleroom”, “Drawing out Buddha Nature” (repeat), “The Creation of Art and Life – Chiang Yo Mei Interview”, “Editorial” |