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Join exhibiting artists and curators of "Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition" to to gain an understanding of historical ink painting traditions and artmaking today in Taiwan. Panelists will include Taipei-based Yao Jui-Chung, who will be an artist-in-residence on campus (November 3–7).Panelists:
• Agi Chen
• Chen Chun-Hao
• Wu Chi-Tsung
• Yao Jui-Chung
Location:
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Plym Auditorium
611 E. Lorado Taft Dr.
Champaign
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Agi Chen (陳怡潔) re-encodes popular culture, animation imagery, and digital color through painting, video, and projection mapping, transforming mass visual experience and contemporary perception.
Chen Chun-Hao (陳浚豪) recreates classical painting with mosquito nails, thumbtacks, and industrial materials, transforming brushwork, texture strokes, and qi into metallic points and repetitive bodily labor.
Wu Chi-Tsung (吳季璁) works across photography, video, installation, and painting, often using light, time, and everyday materials to reconstruct landscape texture strokes through poetic media experiments.
Yao Jui-Chung (姚瑞中) works across photography, painting, installation, performance, and publishing, often using humor, appropriation, and critique to address history, ruins, power, and the imagination of landscape.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
"Ink Shower" was curated by Kai-Ching Hsiao, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Art Criticism, Tainan National University of the Arts, and Maureen Warren, Curator of European and American Art, Krannert Art Museum. The exhibition was produced in collaboration with the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, with special thanks to Director Matt Winters and Associate Director Yuchia Chang. Ink Shower is organized by InART Space and Krannert Art Museum. Advised by Jamie Tu, Rita Chang, Chien-Hui Kao, Yu-Chia Chang.
Made possible with grant support from the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Center for Advanced Study MillerComm Lecture Series; and Illinois Arts Council. Additional funding is provided by the J. Fred and Donna Giertz Exhibition Support Fund.
About the exhibition:
kam.illinois.edu/ink-shower
Image: Detail, Yao Jui-Chung, Land is Wealth: Money God, 2025. India handmade paper, Pitt artist pen, and gold leaf. 77 x 120 inches (4-panel screen). Courtesy of the artist. © Yao Jui-Chung.
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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
FALL 2026
SEPTEMBER
26 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
OCTOBER
1 · SPEAK Café, 6–7:30 pm
2 · Noontime Gallery Talk & Tour, 12 pm
3 · Teen Artist's Retreat, 10 am–3 pm · Anita Purves Nature Center & Krannert Art Museum. Sign up at urbanaparks.org. (15 participants)
8 · Opening Day | In Search of a Future
10 · Curator Talk & Tour | In Search of a Future, 10:30 am
10 · In the Studio: Thrown and Altered Clay Workshop, with Catherine Wiesener, 1–3 pm · U of I Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana. Sign up at kam.illinois.edu. (10 participants)
17 · Kids at KAM: Artmaking and More! 10:30 am–12:30 pm
22 · Visiting Artist Talk | Tyson E. Lewis, 5:30–7 pm
NOVEMBER
Nov 3–7 · Weeklong Residency with Exhibiting Artist Yao Jui-Chung
4 · Reception & MillerComm Lecture | Landscape as Storytelling | The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy" with Yao Jiu-Chung in conversation with Kao Chien-Hui, 4 pm Reception, 5 pm Event; Part of the MillerComm Lecture Series; Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
5 · Opening Reception | Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition, 5–7 pm
6 · Ink Shower Artists Panel Discussion, 2–3:30 pm, Temple Buell Hall,Plym Auditorium, 611 E. Lorado Taft Dr., Champaign
7 · Curator Talk & Tour | Ink Shower, 10:30 am
12 · SPEAK Café, 6 pm
13 · Noontime Gallery Talk & Tour, 12 pm
14 · Improvisers Exchange: Sonic Location, 1–3 pm
DECEMBER
3 · Day With(out) Art: Film Screening & Discussion for World AIDS Day, 5:30 pm
4 · Noontime Gallery Talk & Tour, 12 pm
5 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
10 · FAA Finals Fest, 12–3:30 pm · For U of I students.
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For updates:
kam.illinois.edu/events
Krannert Art Museum endeavors to be accessible to all. If you have an accessibility question or would like to request an accommodation, please email us at [email protected].
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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