Yang Yi-Shiang (b. 1981) Lives and works in Taipei. Yang Yi-Shiang graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tunghai University in 2006. After graduation, she worked briefly as a painting teacher until her debut exhibition, ‘Spirit of Travel,’ at Espace Louis Vuitton, Taipei in 2013. She has shown her work in group exhibitions at institutions including Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2014); Keelung Cultural Center, Taiwan; and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, where her work was included her work in the Young Artist Collection (2013). She won the Keelung Art Prize from Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, and the first prize at Da-Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan. Yang Yi-Shiang’s paintings are largely nostalgic and personal, recording fragments of her life and feelings. They strike the audience with their concepts and sharp sensitivity expressed upon the unsettlements, disappointments, and entanglements of contemporary living.