Li Tung 董籬
An artist crossing many genres, Li Tung works in two- and three-dimensional arts including painting, visual and installation arts, photography, calligraphy, performing art, impromptu dance, stage design, as well as game and multimedia design and creative writing.
Born in 1971 in Taipei, Li was solidly trained in art schools since young age and graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the National Taiwan University of Arts. After a surprising and alarming turn of his health in his late 30s, Li used his experience to revitalize his works and focuses on human body as the inspiration of his creations. Li’s recent paintings reflect his thorough comprehension of surrealism and Pan-Asian arts. As a published novelist, Li is writing dialogues with images to tell stories and communicate with others.
In the past 20 years, Li’s artworks have been exhibited at various galleries in Taiwan, including the Taipei Arts Gallery and YIYU Arts Gallery. He is a member of the “Fifth Moon Group”, Taiwan’s most influential and longstanding artists collective. He is the winner of the Taipei Arts Awards (Taipei Fine Arts Museum) and Nanying Awards (Tainan City Cultural Affairs Bureau). In Vancouver, he has exhibited at the Harmony Arts Festival, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Taiwanese & Canadian Arts Series, and Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society Arts Gallery.
As a writer, Li has published in Taiwan and China. His novels have won the Literature and Art Camp Creation Award (Unitas Lifestyle), Taiwan Literature Award (National Museum of Taiwan Literature), New Taipei City Literature Award (New Taipei City), and MWT Essay Award (Mystery Writers of Taiwan).
Since 2010, Li started to perform live painting with improvising musicians and dancers. He joined the acclaimed MAFIA Ensemble, the leading force in Taiwan’s experimental and improvisational arts scene, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary practices. Li has collaborated with numerous Canadian (NOW Society, Orchid Ensemble, Sammy Chien, Chimerik, Sound of Dragon Society, Paul Plimley), Taiwanese, and Japanese artists and has performed at the Western Front, Sound of Dragon Music Festival, Roundhouse, and Taiwan’s Create Music Festival.
Exhibitions
Solo
2019 | We Don’t Hate Monsters | |
Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society Gallery | Vancouver, Canada | |
2019 | The Voice of Time | |
JR House | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2019 | Linescape – 2019 Tacheles | |
Tacheles | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2019 | Writing the Lost Landscape as a Poem | |
MUD Studio | Yilan, Taiwan | |
2018 | Glittering | |
YIYU Arts Center | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2018 | Meet ‧ See | |
Richmond Community Centre – City Centre | Richmond, Canada | |
2018 | Zen in the Square | |
Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society Gallery | Vancouver, Canada | |
2018 | SOUND OF DRAGON Ink Sketch | |
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre | Vancouver, Canada | |
2016 | SOUND OF DRAGON Ink Sketch | |
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre | Vancouver, Canada | |
2014 | SOUND OF DRAGON Ink Sketch | |
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre | Vancouver, Canada | |
2014 | Feminine ‧ Melancholy | |
Joie Éternelle | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2012 | No Models in the Studio | |
Socket Lab | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2011 | Sensual Reading | |
Joie Éternelle | Taipei, Taiwan |
Group
2019 | Harmony Arts Festival | |
Music Box | West Vancouver, Canada | |
2019 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
Dadun Cultural Center | Taichung, Taiwan | |
2019 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
YIYU Arts Center | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2019 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
Chan Liu Art Museum | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2018 | Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Festival | |
Queen Elizabeth Theatre | Vancouver, Canada | |
2018 | North American Artists Invitation Exhibition | |
Culture Centre of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office | Toronto, Canada | |
2018 | Taiwan Annual | |
Taipei Expo Park EXPO Dome | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2018 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
YIYU Arts Center | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2018 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
Chan Liu Art Museum | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2017 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
Chan Liu Art Museum | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2016 | Art Lesson 2.0 | |
Changhua Arts Hall | Changhua, Taiwan | |
2016 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
Chan Liu Art Museum | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2015 | The Fifth Moon Group | |
Chan Liu Art Museum | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2014 | North Coast Art Life | |
Douglas Lapraik & Co. | Tamsui, Taiwan | |
2014 | Retro ‧ Context | |
Chung Shan Creative Hub | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2013 | Before the Very Beginning | |
The Ruins of the Taipei Paper Factory | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2012 | Pocket-size Artworks Party | |
One Year Gallery | Taipei, Taiwan |
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Performing Arts
Live
2019 | The Trajectory of Pulses – The Realization of the Sound Device | |
Empty Theater – producer & performer | ||
Tacheles | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2018 | Phases | |
Empty Theater – producer, director, writer, designer & performer | ||
YIYU Arts Center | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2017 | ART CHAT / ART JAM Ideas Worth Jamming About III | |
MAFIA Ensemble – dancer | ||
Chinyuan Art Space | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2017 | ART CHAT / ART JAM Ideas Worth Jamming About II | |
MAFIA Ensemble – impromptu painting performer & workshop instructor | ||
Guling Street Avant-garde Theater | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2017 | ART CHAT / ART JAM Ideas Worth Jamming About I | |
MAFIA Ensemble – impromptu painting performer | ||
Digital Art Center | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2016 | Light Shadow Fire | |
SOUND OF DRAGON Festival – impromptu painting performer | ||
Western Front | Vancouver, Canada | |
2016 | Improvising East, Enchanting East | |
SOUND OF DRAGON Festival – impromptu painting performer | ||
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre | Vancouver, Canada | |
2016 | Face | |
Huchia Dance Theater – dancer | ||
Undecorated Taoyuan Railway Pavilion | Taoyuan, Taiwan | |
2014 | Project UAS | |
MAFIA Ensemble – impromptu painting performer | ||
Dongfeng Street Basement | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2014 | The Kinky Beginning of the Fable | |
Avant-garde Theater – producer, director, writer & performer | ||
Chung Shan Creative Hub | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2013 | Strange Concert II | |
MAFIA Ensemble – impromptu painting performer | ||
Tainan Public Hall | Tainan, Taiwan | |
2013 | Strange Concert I | |
MAFIA Ensemble – impromptu painting performer | ||
Tainan Public Hall | Tainan, Taiwan | |
2013 | Before the Very Beginning | |
The Caveman Project – creator & performer | ||
The Ruins of the Taipei Paper Factory | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2012 | The Boundaries of Colors and Voices between Each Other | |
Tokyo-Taipei Improvising Painting-music Relay – impromptu painting performer | ||
Taipei Artist Village | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2011 | Making Sound 2011 | |
MAFIA Ensemble – impromptu painting performer | ||
Nanhai Gallery Reykjavik Lab | Taipei, Taiwan | |
2005 | Night Color Rope | |
BDSM Company Theater – art director & installation art creator | ||
White Water Urban Gallery | Taipei, Taiwan |
Multi-media
2019 | Crossing Mountains & Seas | |
Original character & setting drawings | ||
Port Theatre | Nanaimo, Canada | |
Vancouver Playhouse | Vancouver, Canada | |
2017 | Music of the Heavens | |
Original character & setting drawings | ||
Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts | Kelowna, Canada | |
Norman Rothstein Theatre | Vancouver, Canada |
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Awards
Taipei Arts Awards
by Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Nanying Awards
by Tainan City Cultural Affairs Bureau
Literature and Art Camp Creation Award
by Unitas Lifestyle
Taiwan Literature Award
by National Museum of Taiwan Literature
New Taipei City Literature Award
by New Taipei City
MWT Essay Award
by Mystery Writers of Taiwan
Publications
The Legend, television novel, Sbooker Publications
[ISBN 978-986-7010-64-3]
Black & White, television novel, Sbooker Publications
[ISBN 978-986-7010-95-7]
Romeo & Juliet and Zombies, novel, Sbooker Publications
[ISBN 978-986-6278-38-9]
Experience
Founder of Double12 Art LAB
A studio that mixes art with practical application using a multimedia approach
Founder & Curator of Socket
A theatre consisting of experimental troupes & an experiment platform where there is no boundary between living space and art exhibition, no fixed operator, and is operated in a form of cooperative
Member of North American Artists Association
A studio that mixes art with practical application using a multimedia approach
Member of Western Canada Taiwanese Artist Society
A society formed by Taiwanese painters on the West Coast of Canada that holds exhibitions and art-related events regularly
Member of MAFIA Ensemble
An impromptu performance group formed by artists from a variety contemporary art fields
It has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. In addition to performances, it also engages in promoting and teaching of impromptu art.
Member of The Fifth Moon Group
The oldest and prestigious painting society (over 60 years) in Taiwan aiming to promote innovation of the Taiwanese art circles
Its founding members have become the most respected artists in Taiwan. All the members are invited or recommended by the existing members, not by application.
Editor & Columnist of Apple Daily
A newspaper printed in Taiwan and owned by Hong Kong based Next Digital
Education
National Taiwan University of Arts, School of Fine Arts
Zhongzheng High School, Fine Art Class
Minglun Middle School, Fine Art Class
info@double12.ca
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