Yang was invited to exhibit his work around the world, including Galena Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo de Arte Costarricense in San Jose, Costa Rica, City University of New York, Espace Auteuil in Paris, Saitama Prefecture Museum of Modern Art and Ueno Royal Museum in Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. In 2013, Discovery Channel selected Yang Chi-hung as one of its featured Chinese painters, interviewing the artist over a one year period in New York and at the 55th Venice Biennial, where he showed the work Culture, Mind, Becoming. As part of the program Chineseness, which was shown in 28 countries in the Asia Pacific Region, the film crew also visited Shanghai and Taipei to better detail Yang’s creative life. This year, Asia Art Center in Taipei has brought together Yang Chi-hung’s works from 1960-2014 as part of a documenta and retrospective exhibition entitled The Poetics of Polyphony: Yang Chi-hung Solo Exhibition. This focuses on the artist’s creative journey over the past 50 years, achievements that ensure Yang’s works are today favored by art collectors around the world.
This art catalogue, published by the Asia Art Center, brings together works from Yang Chi-hung’s long and distinguished artistic career. The paintings detail a journey that starts with the artist’s Chinese cultural background but that has been enriched from the many years he spent in the US immersed in Western culture, before returning to Taiwan.