Chou Ching-hui

Chou Ching-hui (; born 1965) is a Taiwanese artist and photographer.

Biography Chou was born in 1965 in Taiwan and graduated from the World College of Journalism in Taiwan.

Chou's interest in photography started in 1988. After completing military service, he has been a photojournalist in Capital Morning News, The Journalist magazine and China Times Weekly in Taiwan. Over these years, he received Taiwan’s annual Top Award in Photojournalism, Silver Medal in the Reportage category. A year later, Chou embarked on his first long-term photography project, "Frozen in Time – Images of a Leper Colony" which was exhibited at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1995. The following year, the exhibition was shown at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and was recorded in Taiwan Photographers.

Every project that Chou created is fully related to social issues. He has received Independence Post Group Annual Taiwan News Award in Graphic Stories category, Golden Cauldron Prize, etc.

Chou's works have been exhibited at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (1995), the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (1996), the Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (2002), the Guangdong Provincial Museum (2003), the Shanghai Art Museum (2003), the Guangzhou Photo Biennial (2008, 2009); and the Taiwan Biennial (2008).

Chou's Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project, a picture book series composed of computer images of children of the Yellow Sheep River Area, won the Red Dot Design Award in 2010 and the iF Communication Design Award 2011.

Solo exhibitions 1995: Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan 1997: Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony, National Ching-Hua University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taïwan 2002: Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, The 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China 2004: Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, Quanta Building Hall, Taipei, Taïwan Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, Immersing in Art, Quanta Campus Tour Exhibition, Taipei, Taïwan 2009: Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan 2010: Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project, Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy 2015: Animal Farm, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Animal Farm, ElsaArt Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Group exhibitions 1989: Juan Yi-chung Darkroom Studio – Image Notebook, Jazz Photo Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan 1993: Eslite Six Photographers Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan 1995: Modern Taiwanese Photographers, Okinawa Photography Festival, Japan 1996: Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony selected for exhibition in Asian View – Asia in Transition photography exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 1997: Executive director of Seeing the Native Son – Chronicle of Taiwanese Hakka in Shadow and Light, Chung Cheng Gallery, National Taiwan Arts Education Center, Taipei, Taïwan Executive director of Taiwan Shiseido – Through the Years, Taipei, Taïwan Women, Taipei City Government, Taipei, Taïwan Portraits of Taiwan – Classic Chronicle of a Half Century of Faces, Taipei Photography Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan 1998: Contemporary Taiwanese Photography group exhibition, NCP Photography Gallery, Hong Kong Old-Taipei-People, Taipei City Government, Taipei, Taïwan 1999: From Observing to Understanding – Modern Photographic Art from Taiwan 1990-99, Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation Art Center, Taipei, Taïwan Industrious Taipei People group exhibition, Taipei City Government, Taipei, Taïwan 2000: Third Taipei International Photography Festival, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan 2003: Humanism China – A Contemporary Record of Photography, Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou, China 2004: Humanism China – A Contemporary Record of Photography, Shanghai Art Museum, National Art Museum of China, China 2006: Humanism China – A Contemporary Record of Photography, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany Taipei – Views and Points, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan 2007: Humanism China – A Contemporary Record of Photography, Museum of Photography in Berlin, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany Evolution, 2007 Guangzhou Photo Biennial exhibition, Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou, China 2008: Humanism China – A Contemporary Record of Photography, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany Humanism China – A Contemporary Record of Photography, Edinburgh City Art Center, Scotland Home, 2008 Taiwan Biennial exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taïwan 2009: Sightings: Searching for the Truth, 2009 Guangzhou Photo Biennial exhibition, Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou, China Cultural Insights from Taiwanese Documentary Photography – Taiwanese Find Arts Series, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taïwan 2010: Four Dimensions – Contemporary Photography from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Macau, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong-Kong 2011: Stories Developing - 10 Contemporary Photographers of Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Eye of the Times-Centennial Images of Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2012: Into Society: Critical Realism in Taiwanese Photographic Arts since 1990, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2013: Innovation&Re-creation, Selected Works from the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Young Artist Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taïwan 2014: The Great Acceleration , 2014 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan 2015: Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Chong Ching, China The Hidden Me: Self-Portraits, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan 2016: Animal Farm, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan Animal Farm, La Galerie, Hong-Kong,

Publications 1989: Juan Yi-chung Darkroom Studio – Image Notebook, Jen Chien Publishing 1995: Modern Taiwanese Photographers – Focus on Chou Ching-hui, Ascending Cultural Enterprises Publishing 1996: Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony collected in Vibrant Asia photography volume, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1998: Executive director, Seeing the Native Son – Chronicle of Taiwanese Hakka in Shadow and Light photography volume, Taipei Civil Affairs Bureau 2001: Executive director, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum pictorial notebook project 2002: Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle exhibition catalogue, Photographers International 2004: Out of the Shadows photo album (limited edition), Evermore International Publishing Corporation 2009: Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project photo album (limited edition), Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Collections National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou, China