About CJNY

On January 1st, 1993, I arrived in the United States of America. I heard there was an artist colony in New York called SOHO, where artists were living in big lofts, drinking cheap beer, and making great artworks. Standing on the corner between Broadway and Hudson street for the very first time, I was totally stunned by the gigantic DKNY billboard. I did not know what it stood for at that time. Ironically, it somehow seemed like a symbol for a field of dreams.

Living in New York never turned out the way that I thought it would. SOHO had become a flourishing commercial zone, and I am still between who I am and who I want myself to be. The place that I came for was long gone before I even arrived and being an artist takes much more than just making great artworks. On January 1st, 2000, I created the first version of CJNY.com and dedicated it to the memory of a place that I came for yet have never been.

Biography

C. J. Yeh is a New York based artist who constantly challenges the boundaries of contemporary art. Yeh’s artwork has been exhibited internationally at prominent museums and art festivals such as Art Basel, MAXXI Museum, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. He was a pioneer in NetArt and continue to embraces experimentations with new possibilities such as NFT (blockchain) and immersive technologies such as AR, VR, and Metaverse.

Yeh’s research interests include practices, theories, and the history of digital art. Since 1999, Yeh’s essays on art and technology have been featured in Art and Collection Magazine, ArtNow Magazine, Art Today Magazine, and Artists Magazine, amongst others. He has also written research articles for the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Yeh has published ten books to date, and several of his books have been adopted as a textbook by universities in Taiwan.

Yeh is currently teaching full-time at the FIT. Yeh has won several teaching award to date including the FIT Excellence Award, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Adobe Educator’s Choice Award.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018 A Spilt Second of Eternity, Art Center at Central University, Taichung, Taiwan
2014 ESC: New Media Artworks by C.J. Yeh, Museum at FIT, New York, NY
2013 ReSET, East Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Pre-Purpose, Re-Purpose, De-Purpose, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 The Great American Tour, Art Taipei 2012, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Über Low-Tech Summing Up 10 Years of My Artistic and Intellectual Life, Arts Center at National Tsing Hua University, Shin Chu City, Taiwan
2006 Equals, VertexList Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2003 Liquid_Mondrian, VertexList Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2001 The Forgotten Present, Zao Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999 C. J. Yeh – Recent Paintings, Chinese American Arts Council, New York, NY, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2019 #IMPACT: The Future is Inclusive, Pomerantz Center, New York, NY
2019 Expressions of Civility, Lynn and Carl Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY
2018 2050, A Brief History of the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
Taichung, Taiwan
2018 Should We Play, Taipei Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Self-portrait, The Lynn and Carl Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY
2018 _NewEXPERIENCE, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
2017 Aesthetics of Interpretation, Hsinchu City Museum, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2017 Art Taichun 2017, Millennium Hotel, Taichung, Taiwan
2017 #EXPERIENCE, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
2017 40 x 40 Exhibition, Budapest Projekt Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
2017 New Views 2017, John E. Reeves Great Hall, FIT, New York, NY
2016 Creative Expo Taiwan (CET), Songshan Cultural & Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 New Views 2016, John E. Reeves Great Hall, FIT, New York, NY
2016 Mechanism of Forgetfulness, The Lynn and Carl Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY
2015 The Moment, New York Hall of Science, New York, NY
2015 Incessant Chatters, DeJi Plaza, Nanjing City, China
2015 New Views 2015, John E. Reeves Great Hall, FIT, New York, NY
2014 TAAC Recognition: Taiwanese American Artists, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
2014 New Views 2014, John E. Reeves Great Hall, FIT, New York, NY
2014 Pairings, Lynn and Carl Goldstein Gallery, FIT, New York, NY
2013 Making Places For…, inArt Space, Tainan, Taiwan
2013 TEMPO, Helen Mills, New York, USA
2013 The Delight of Chinese Characters, Pier 2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2012 Body/Inter-Face, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 PROCESSED, Center546, New York, NY, USA
2012 Art Tainan 2012, The Landis, Tainan, Taiwan
2011 Play Station, Postmaster Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011 Data In, Data Out, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA
2011 Next Body – Digital Art Exhibition, Hua Shan Culture and Creative Industry Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Woodstock New Media Festival, Woodstock, Vermont, USA
2010 Connectivity, Museum at FIT, New York, NY, USA
2010 Body, Gender, Technology, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Made in Internet – ArtBoom Festival, Krakow, Poland
2009 Transmediale 09’,  Festival for Art and Digital Culture Berlin, Germany
2008 Execution, Museum at FIT, New York, NY, USA
2008 BITMAP – as good as new, The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2008 sound.sight[interaction] 2.0, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
2008 8 Bits,  Blip Festival 07′, VertexList Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007 Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2007 Plug-and-Play 2.0, DigiArk – National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Tai-Chung, Taiwan
2007 Taiwan-Australian New Media Arts Exhibition, Kuando Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Diverse Visions, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA
2006 Net Archives, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
2006 Duality, Melvin Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL, USA
2006 You Are Here, VertexList Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005 Crossing Disciplines, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA
2005 Faculty Exhibition, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA
2004 NEXUS: Taiwan in Queens, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA
2004 Era of Contention, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2002 Making It Home, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2002 Unknown/Infinity, Legion Arts/CSPS, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
2001 Unknown/Infinity, Taipei Information and Culture Center, New York, NY, USA
2001 Unknown/Infinity, Stephen Gang Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 NurtureArt Reaches the Heights, NYU Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 Beyond Ethnic Stereotypes, Kennedy Museum of Arts, Athens, OH, USA

SELECTED ARTWORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

MAXXI Museum, B. A. S. E. Net Art Archive
Joan Flasch Net Art Collection, Art Institute of Chicago
East Gallery, Taiwan
Pace University, New York
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School, Taiwan
BB Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
Rhizome ARTstor, New Museum
Java Museum, Cologne, Germany