About Yuan Hui-Li

Yuan Hui-Li is a contemporary ink artist from Taiwan. Delving deeply into the tradition of landscape painting, she deconstructs the established frameworks of tradition through different creative projects, with each project giving rise to several distinct bodies of work. These works engage with questions of subjectivity identity, using feminine writing to subvert the patriarchal principles of tradition, while also opening up new ways of thinking, in both medium and form, that depart from the past. Yuan holds that the renewal of form is indeed essential for ink painting to move toward modernity, but that innovation in meaning and content is the very core of what makes ink contemporary. As a result, her artistic practice is not only broad and diverse in scope but also more fully imbued with a contemporary spirit.
袁慧莉是台灣當代水墨藝術家,她深入傳統山水畫領域,從不同創作計畫解索傳統既有框架,成為不同作品系列。這些作品不僅涉及到自我主體認同,以陰性書寫顛覆傳統父系法則,更從媒材與形式展現不同過往的思維視野。她認為形式的更新固然是水墨走向現代的要件,但內容意涵的創新才是水墨具有當代意義的核心重點。因此,她的創作實踐面向不僅寬廣多元,而且更具當代精神。
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The Fire Ink (火墨) series was collected by and exhibited at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in the group exhibition "Ebony Terra", where I was also invited to speak on a panel.
火墨系列典藏及展出於 高雄市立美術館-黑土 聯展,並受邀座談2026/0822

The THEY Shanshui series is featured in a group exhibition at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
類山水系列作品於 高雄市立美術館-典藏庫房的竊竊私語 聯展展出2026/0509-0906

2025 More is less: Bittersweetness 時間之漬:悲欣
Commissioned by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and exhibited at the group Exhibition Walking Their Own Paths: Women Calligraphers in Contemporary Taiwan of Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center
受桃園美術館委託創作展覽於橫山書法藝術館自由自在:台灣當代女性書藝展聯展
2025/09/05 - 2025/12/01

2008-2021 THEY Shanshui series 類山水系列
The series has been exhibited at the Hidden Emotion in Texture : Yuan Hui-Li's solo exhibition
展出於隱身皴:袁慧莉個展
Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei 臺北耿畫廊
2021/03/06 - 2021/05/08

2019 Manual of Yuan's Texturizing Strokes 袁氏皴譜
This work has been first exhibited in Hidden Emotion in Texture : Yuan Hui-Li's solo exhibition 此作首展於隱身皴:袁慧莉個展
Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei 臺北耿畫廊
2021/03/06 - 2021/05/08

2021 Displacing Guo Xi's Early Spring in THEY Shanshui 類山水PS.早春圖
The video work was Exhibited with AUO FindARTs 8K High Fidelity ART Display in solo exhibition Essence Ablution: Inks, Brushes and Embodiment of YUAN Hui-Li’s Shanshui Painting.
此錄像作品使用友達擬真藝屏8K顯示器播放展於元漱:袁慧莉的身.筆.墨個展現場
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts 高雄市立美術館
2024/08/31-2024/12/22

2017 Fiery Ink, Displacing Guo Xi’s Early Spring No.2 火墨.郭熙早春圖 No.2
This work was exhibited in Hidden Emotion in Texture : Yuan Hui-Li's solo exhibition
此裝置作品展於隱身皴:袁慧莉個展
Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei 臺北耿畫廊
2021/03/06 - 05/08

2023 Intrinsic Potential Landscape No.32-39 : The Crowded yet Isolated Islands 勢山水:擁擠又孤立的我們
This works was exhibited in solo exhibition Essence Ablution: Inks, Brushes and Embodiment of YUAN Hui-Li’s Shanshui Painting. 此聯作展於元漱:袁慧莉的身.筆.墨個展
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts 高雄市立美術館
2024/08/31-2024/12/22
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