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Wen Meng-Yu is a Taiwanese artist born in 1987. Most of her works are paintings and prints.

While studying in Taipei National University of the Arts, Wen Meng-Yu majored in printmaking, collage and multimedia. She learned silk print and started to insert its skills into her paintings. That becomes the main form of her works. Her works emphasize the internal state of daily life. There she structures the abstractness and flatness of space and reconstructs the relationship of patterns and objects.

 Wen Meng-Yu’s recent works focus on the presentation of the interior scenes. Colors and lines are inseparable; her preference of combining color plates and hard lines with bright colors while dealing with the familiar indoor scenes is perceived. Her works seem to be complicated, colorful, and cheerful, but in between the spaces a still atmosphere pervades. According to Wen Meng-Yu, her works aim to depict the configuration between objects and spaces, and by overlapping scenes, arranging fragments of pictures on the canvas, she reconstructs a new space formed with scenes and emotions. In this specific constructed space on the canvas, the perspective, the intention of ignoring the lights, and the combination of silk screen skills not only present a space with no one but also suggest a more objective viewpoint to viewers. That is to say, the spaces, no matter the decorations, objects and even the relationship in and out the painting (indoors/ outdoors, in/out the painting) not only point out the popularity of architecture spaces and the design of contemporary cities but also emphasize the decorative colors and the effects of the patterns which silk screen bestows. In this case, the relationship between the real state of the true interior space and the space on the canvas has diluted. In her works, viewers see the common interior space in contemporary life, and these scenes are closely related to people’s visual experience of city life.

Wen Meng-Yu’s works are on exhibition in collaborated galleries regularly and are also collected in art museums. Since 2015, her works have been on display in Korea, Japan, and other Asian cities. In 2016, her works capturing the local scenes of Kuala Lumpur were exhibited during her stay of artists-in-residence. The same year, she had been chosen as one of the artists of ART   TAIPEI (2016 Made in Taiwan - Young Artist Discovery.) In 2018, her works were also nominated in 2018 ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE and 2018 LUXEMBOURG ART PRIZE. Wen Meng-Yu is in cooperation with other artists in public arts, and she is enthusiastically broadening her scales and forms of creation.