Chen Sung Chih (b. 1978) was born in Nantou, Taiwan. He holds an MFA from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts. He now lives and works in Taichung, Taiwan. He is the recipient of the Hsiao Chin Creation Award (2022); the Espace Louis Vuitton Taipei Audition (First Prize; 2013); the Yi&C - 35 Visual Artist Support Prize (2012); the Visual Arts Prize of Li Chun-Shan Foundation; and the Taishin Arts Award-Top 7 of Visual Arts (2005).
Chen is a Taiwanese contemporary artist endeavoring in the creation of site-specific installation. He has been selected into international artist residency programs by numerous international art institutions, among which are the Koganecho Area Management Center (Yokohama, Japan); the ISCP (New York, USA); the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France); the Visiting Arts London (London, UK); and The Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt).
His works have been included in various public and private art collections, such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the Taichung Museum of Art; the Juming Museum; and the Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation. Over the years, he has continually presented exhibitions at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the National Art Museum of China; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei; IT Park; Absolutely S.P.P; Espace Louis Vuitton Taipei; Project Fulfill Art Space; Crane Gallery; Art Basel Hong Kong, etc. His recent exhibitions include Places of Being: Space and Materiality in Taiwan's Avant-Garde Art, 1980-2021 (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; 2021); the Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition (Wuzhen, China; 2019); PyeongChang Biennial (Gangneung, Korea; 2017); Taiwan Biennial (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; 2016); Transformations: Contemporary Media and Manifestations (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2016); Stopping the Sun in its Course (Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; 2015); Flourishing and Flowing (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; 2011); Time Unfrozen (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; 2010), etc.