Overview

Julia Hung was born in 1986, Taipei, Taiwan. She has traveled and lived in many countries since childhood. She majored and graduated from the illustration program with a bachelor of design from OCAD University in 2012. In 2016, she obtained a master of fine art degree from the Work.Master – Contemporary Artist Practice program at HEAD, Geneva.

Julia Hung often explores and experiments with different materiality to find new possibilities. In 2020, she received Merit Award from ‘Pingtung Fine Arts Exhibition’. In 2017, she received Judge’s Award from ‘New Heads – Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards’ in Geneva. She illustrated for Marie Claire China from 2013 to 2015. Her art pieces have been collected by the established Artvera’s gallery in Geneva and private collectors in Europe.

Recent selected exhibitions including Art Zone, Taiwan Lantern Festival, Ping Tung, Taiwan, 2019; Immortagram, Element, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018; L’Oranger, Art Geneve, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland, 2017; L’Oranger, LIYH(LiveInYourHead Gallery), Geneva Switzerland, 2017; Bourgeois Bore, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome Italy, 2014.

Selected works

Exhibitions

Press

CV

Born 1986 in Taipei; currently based between Taipei and New York

Education

2016 Master of art HES-SO in Fine Art,Work Master – Contemporary Artist Practice, HEAD, Geneva

2012 Bachelor of Design, Illustration, OCAD University, Toronto

Solo Exhibition (Selected)

2023
Untamed, Soka Art, Tainan

2021
An Unusual Knot, Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taipei
The Miscellaneous of Being and Living, New Taipei City Arts Center, New Taipei City

2020
Will Looped, The Art Space by the Studio, Taipei

Group Exhibition / Collaboration (Selected)

2025
When Night Falls, TKG+ Projects, Taipei

2024
Art Taipei 2024, Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1, Taipei
Airy Disk, River Art Gallery, Taichung
Taipei Dangdai, NODE, Taipei Nangan Exhibition Center, Taipei
Voices, POPOP Taipei, Taipei

2023
​Art Taipei 2023, Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1, Taipei
Art Osaka 2023, Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka City
Forestry Island Eco Art Festival 2023, Pingtung
Similarities, San Gallery, Tainan

​2022
The Seedin Lab – Ocean, The Seedin Lab, Taipei
Art Taipei 2022, Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1, Taipei
Artificial Phenomena, Centurion House, Taipei

2021
All Solo!, Dadaocheng Project by Liang Gallery, OrigInn Space, Taipei

2020
Pingtung Art Exhibition, Pingtung Art Museum, Pingtung

2019
Taiwan Lantern Festival, Pingtung

2018
Immortagram, Element, Taipei

2017
Art Genève, Palexpo, Geneva
L’Oranger, LIYH (LiveInYourHead Gallery), Geneva

2016
​Happy Silly Kids , HEAD, Geneva
Chantier Confort , Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers

2014
​White Noise , HEAD, Geneva
Bourgeois Bore, ISTITUTO SVIZZERO DI ROMA, Rome​

​2013
Eggspectation – Sunny Side Up, HEAD, Geneva

Award

2024
Asian Cultural Council, New York Fellowship, Grantee, New York

2023
Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition Finalist, Taoyuan

2020
Pingtung Fine Art Award Runner-up, Pingtung

2017
New Heads – Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards Finalist, Geneva

Collection

King Car Cultural & Educational Foundation, Taipei
Artvera’s Gallery, Geneve
Hon Hui Rui Guang CO., LTD., Taipei
Indigo Hotel Alishan, Chiayi​

Publication / Writing

2023 Untamed

2017 L’Oranger (exhibition catalogue)

2016
Vrai de Vrai / Real de Real – In The Mood for Egg
A Recipe of No Recipe