Julia Hung (b. 1986, Taipei) creates installations and sculptures that explore transformation through material, perception, and impermanence. Using techniques historically associated with domestic labor—such as cooking, ironing, and textile-based processes—she reconfigures overlooked materials, including discarded plastics, ordinary objects, and daily gestures, into biomorphic, fluid forms. Her practice examines how systems of value, cultural meaning, and perception are continuously constructed, dissolved, and reshaped through shifting states between presence and absence, permanence and ephemerality.
Hung holds a BDes from OCAD University (2012) and an MFA from HEAD – Genève (2016). She was awarded the Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship (2024) and was a finalist for the New Heads – Fondation BNP Paribas Art Award (2017) and the Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition (2023). Her work is held in public and private collections including the King Car Cultural & Educational Foundation, t.Hub Taipei, and Hotel Indigo Alishan.
Julia Yu-Wen Hung
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
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2023
- Untamed, Soka Art, Tainan
- 2021
- An Unusual Knot, Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taipei
- 2021
- 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
- 2026
- Secret Forms, Galerie Georges-Philippe Nathalie Vallois, New York
- 2025
- The Interval Between: Galerie Pierre 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Pierre, Taichung
- When Night Falls, TKG+ Projects, Taipei
- 2024
- Airy Disk, River Art Gallery, Taichung
- Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei
- Voices, POPOP Taipei, Taipei
- 2023
- FIABCN 2023 — CAC Virtual Gallery, Museu Marítim de Barcelona, Barcelona
- 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, After Journey, Pingtung
- Similarities: Co-exhibition of 6 Artists, San Gallery, Tainan
- 2022
- The Seedin Lab - Ocean, The Seedin Lab, Taipei
- Art Taipei 2022, Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1, Taipei
- Art Taichung 2022, The Lin Hotel, Taichung
- Artificial Phenomena, American Express Centurion House, Regent Taipei (Hotel), 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
- 2017
- L’Oranger, Art Genève, Palexpo, Geneva
- L’Oranger, LIYH (LiveInYourHead Gallery), Geneva
- 2016
- Happy Silly Kids, HEAD, Geneva
- Chantier Confort, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
- A Recipe of No Recipe, HEAD, Geneva
- 2014
- White Noise, HEAD, Geneva
- Bourgeois Bore, ISTITUTO SVIZZERO DI ROMA, Rome
- Me Meet Meat, Pop-up, Geneva
- Eggspectation - Sunny Side Up, HEAD, Geneva
- 2013
- Cupcake.Cliché.Fusion, HEAD, Geneva
Social Practice, Workshops & Talk
- 2026
- 4N Exchange: Alias - Panel Discussion, Printed Matter, New York
- 2025
- Asian Contemporary Currents - Talks by Five Asian Artists, Initial Research, New York
Award
- 2024
- Asian Cultural Council, New York Fellowship, Grantee, New York
- 2023
- Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition Finalist, Taoyuan
- 2021
- National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF) Grant for Artistic Creation, Grantee, Taipei
- 2020
- Pingtung Fine Art Award Runner-up, Pingtung
- 2017
- New Heads - Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards Finalist, Geneva
Collection / Public Art
- King Car Cultural & Educational Foundation, Taipei
- Hon Hui Rui Guang CO., LTD., Taipei
- Pauian Archiland Group, Taipei
- Chains Interior Design Co., Ltd.
- Hsieh Sheng Fa Construction Co., Ltd.
- Indigo Hotel Alishan, Chiayi
- Artvera’s Gallery, Geneve
Publication / Writing
- 2023
- Untamed
- 2017
- L’Oranger (exhibition catalogue)
- 2016
- Vrai de Vrai / Real de Real - In The Mood for Egg
- 2016
- A Recipe of No Recipe