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1958 born in Taipei, Taiwan
Education
1982 Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
1984 Master of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
lives and works in Toronto, Canada
Solo exhibitions
2013 North-South Encounter, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2012 VOLTA New York, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain
2011 Déliaison/Unbinding, Le Musée d’art contemporarain des Laurentides, Québec, Canada
Mémento, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK
Haven of Delight, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2010 Haven of Delight, (touring) Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada
The Room, St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands
The Drawings of Ed Pien: The Haunting, Campus Gallery, Georgian College, Barrie (Ontario, Canada).
Underwater (curated by Angela Kingston). Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Memento, Himalaya Art Gallery, 501 Contemporary, Chongqing, China
2009 Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
National touring exhibition of HAVEN
Galeria Nina Menocal Project Space, Mexico City
The Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK (touring through the UK, China and Canada)
The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada
2008 Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands
Birch Libralato, Toronto, Canada
University of Palermo, Petralia ,Sottana, Sicily, Italy
Axe-néo-sept, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Museé d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Hot Art, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Cornice Art Fair, Venice, Italy
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA
Canada House, London, UK
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
2006 SPACE Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL
Bizart, Shanghai, China
Rodman Hall Art Gallery, St Catharines, ON, Canada
Centre d’art de Basse-Normandie, France
2005 New Works, The Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
In the Realm of Others, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON, Canada
Ed Pien, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
Tracing Night, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Earthly Delights, Windsor Printmaker’s Forum, Windsor, ON, Canada
In a Realm of Others, The Robert McLaughlin Art Centre, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Strange Scene, Keyano College Art Gallery, Ft. McMurray, Canada
2004 Earthly Delights, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
Earthly Delights, Museo Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands
Imaginary Beings, Galerie Alexander Ochs, Berlin
Earthly Delights, Museo Arqueologico, Mazatlan, Mexico
Celestial Bodies, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, ON, Canada
Tracing Night, Sir Wilfred Grenfell Gallery, Corner Brook, NF, Canada
Tracing Night, St. Mary’s University Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada
Ed Pien, Usine C, Montréal, QC, Canada
2003 In a Realm of Others, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
2002 Ed Pien: Survey, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
2001 The Canadian Culture Centre, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
WALLY, Amsterdam
Miller/Block, Boston, USA
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Canada
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
Truck, Calgary, Canada
2000 De Overslag, EindhovenContemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
L’oeil de Poisson, Quebec, Canada
Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
L’Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada
1998 Oboro, Montreal, CanadaThe Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997 Artcite, Windsor, Canada
1996 YYZ, Toronto, CanadaLangage Plus, Alma, Quebec, Canada
1995 Struts Gallery, Sackville, CanadaAccess Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1994 Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1991 Main/Access Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1989 Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1987 Galerie Noctuelle, Montreal, CanadaAce Art, Winnipeg, Canada
1986 Articule, Montreal, Canada
1983 Gallery 76, Toronto, Canada
Group exhibitions
2014 Duo exhibition with Karin van Dam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL
Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL
Papier 2014, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2013 Suspended Gravity (with Karin van Dam), OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
Papier 2013, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2012 SCOPE Miami, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Miami, Florida USA
Toronto International Art Fair,Galerie Pierre Francois Ouelette, Toronto, Ca.
Contemporary Istanbul 2012,
Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Istanbul, Turkey
SCOPE Basel, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Basel, Switzerland
Living – Being, Song Zhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
18th Bieniale of Sydney, Australia
Dimensions in Paper, University Hospital Leiden, NL
2011 TWENTY, 20 years Galerie Maurits vd Laar, The Hague, NL
Refiguring Nature, Creative Space M50, Shanghai, China
Bande, La Biennial du Lin, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada
Paper Doll, Owens Art Gallery, NB, Curator, Canada
Selected works, Gallery Stratford, ON, Canada
Recent works, Art Amsterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, NL
Recent works, Papier 11 Montreal, Birch Libralato, Toronto
Bleed Drawings, Papier 11 Montreal, Pierre-François Ouellette
Underwater, The Bluecoat, curator: Angela Kingston, Liverpool, UK
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL
Underwater, Tullie House, Carlisle, UK
Shadow Play (DVD screening), The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. UK
2010 Scream, Justina M. Barnike Gallery, Toronto, Canada
It is what it is, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2009 Museum of Arts & Design, New York, USA
Salon Du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Paris, France
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin, Germany
Ground, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Underwater, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, touring the UK
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C., Canada
2008 Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Istanbul, Turkey
The National Art Gallery, Enchanted Domain, Ottawa, Canada
Collyer Bristow Gallery, Contemporary Chinoiserie, London
Pulse Miami, Birch Libralato, USA
CODA Museum, Paper Biennial, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Walter Philips Art Gallery, Bureau de Change, Banff, Canada
Art Sutton, Solace, Quebec (2-person), Canada
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA
K. E. Nash University Art Gallery, Minneapolis Minnesota, USA
Begona Melone Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Alexander Ochs, Berlin, Germany
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Canada
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL
2006 e-Billboard Project, Toronto, Canada
Thames Art Gallery, St Thomas, Canada
Hart House, site-specific intervention, Toronto, Canada
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
2005 Drops, Room, Rotterdam
KunstRAI, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Drawings, Chicago Art Fair, USA
2004 The Garden, Pinacoteca, Provinciale di Potenza, Italy
Moon Beings, Straal, Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam, NL
Earthly Delights, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal, QC, Canada
Imaginary Beings, Siemens Forum Bayern, Münich, Germany
Important Canadian Art, Zierhersmith, New York, USA
Just My Imagination, Art Lab & Museum London, London, ON, Canada
Normal, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Canada
Octo-boy, Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2003 Selected Works, Goethe Institut, Berlin, Germany
Water Gods Playing Tricks, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
Drawings, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
The Rest of the World, Neuffer Am Park, Pirmasens, Germany
Between Line and From, Art Gallery of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
The Last Judgement Project, Seattle Centre, curator Stefano Catalani, Seattle, USA
Metamorphosis, Maison de la culture Cote-des-Neiges, Montréal, QC, Canada
Liminal, Ryerson Art Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Imaginings, Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Delight, Weewerk, Toronto, ON, Canada
Visions and Apparitions, Hart House, U of T, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002 The Fountain, Parkhaus, Berlin, Germany
Manifestation, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
The Garden, Parc Citroën, curator Pernille Grane, Paris, France
Earthly Delights, The Montreal Biennial 2002, Montréal, QC, Canada
Tekeningen, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
Galerie Maurits van de Laar (with Karin van Dam), The Hague, NL
Liminal, Bishop’s University Art Gallery, Lennoxville, Canada
Play Tonic, ASpace, Toronto, ON, Canada
Grief Mopping, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK
Paper Art, Stormarn Kulturstiftung, Bad Oldesloe, Germany
Liminal, M.A.I., Montréal, QC, Canada
2001 Asian American Arts Centre, New York, USA
Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, Costa Rica
W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Open Space, Victoria (3 person), Canada
2000 The Drawing Centre, New York, USA
La Biennale de Montreal 2000, Montreal, Canada
Galerie Maurits van de Laar (with Dieter Mammel), The Hague, NL
Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, USA
The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Reactor Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 W139, Amsterdam (3 person), NL
ARTIS, Den Bosch (3 person), NL
Paul Petro Art, Toronto, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Glendon Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 The New Paradise, Taipei (2 person), Taiwan
1996 Artspace, New Haven, CT, Canada
1995 Presentation House, Vancouver, CanadaOO Gallery, Halifax, Canada
1994 Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1993 The Alternator Gallery, (3 person), Kelowna , Canada
1992 The Red Head Gallery, (2 person), Toronto, Canada
1991 The Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, CanadaThe Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1990 Agnes Etherington Gallery, Kingston, CanadaArtspace,(3 person), Peterborough, Canada
1988 Embassy Cultural House, London, Canada
1987 Oakville Galleries, (3 person), Oakville, Canada
1985 Mercer Union, Toronto, CanadaArt Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
1984 Galerie UQAM, Montreal, Canada
1981 Trajectory Gallery, London, Canada