Lai Wei-Yu Taiwanese, b. 1989

Lai Wei-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1989. He graduated from Graduate School of Fine Arts at National Taiwan University in 2017. Lai Wei-Yu's world of painting is like Fellini's Trojan horse with a hidden agenda. The paintings present strange and bizarre images of urban life, with a fantastical and exaggerated plot, which is full of carnival-like joy. Taking seemingly absurd events, Lai Wei-Yu paints the canvas like Fellini's colorful kaleidoscope with a childlike playfulness, inviting the viewer to enter into the carnival and experience the noise, but in the corner where the sun does not shine, we also see the hopelessness and desolation of life.

Lai Wei-Yu's work is held in National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts collections. Past important solo exhibitions include: Intimate yet Tender Moment, YIRI ARTS, Taipei (2018); My Beloved Wouldn't Save Me, YIRI ARTS, Kaohsiung (2018), and Oh no, We'll be ()!, YIRI ARTS, Taipei (2012). Selected group shows include: Cruel Story of Youth, YIRI ARTS, Kaohsiung (2018); HOPE-Charity Exhibition, YIRI ARTS, Taipei (2016), and The Spine of Spectrum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2014).