Born in Changhua, Taiwan in 1978, Tzeng Yong-Ning is an artist with solid academic training. Unlike artists from similar background, Tzeng chooses pens as his main medium, as opposed to oil paint, acrylic, ink, gauche, mediums that speak for high skill and labour. Tzeng’s medium and its relative languages of expression provoke the academic for the existence of boundary in painting. For Tzeng, It is a field worth of challenges. To make provocation possible, he pushes his limits under the disciplines and existing logics to explore the forbidden.
In his works, lines and dots return to the most primitive and normal expression. Tzeng draws seemingly geometric and repetitive images, complex in detail, creating non-narrative compositions of infinite visual effect in the easiest manner, which are later referred as “Garden” in his early works.
Tzeng was short-listed at 2005 Taipei Art Award for the work “Salvage of Garden” and won the 9th Li Chun-shen Visual Arts Award in 2006. He has exhibited many times in L’Espace culturel Bonnefoy in France and as well shown in Germany, U.S.A., Hungary, Italy, Hong Kong, and China. Public collections include White Rabbit Gallery, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Changhua Cultural Affairs Bureau. He’s one of the most worth-watching artists in his generation in Taiwan.