Jow-Jiun GONG

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​Director of Tainan Art Museum / Curator / Professor of Doctoral Program in Art Theory and Creation, Tainan National University of the Arts

 

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Gong Jow-Jiun is a professor teaching at the Tainan National University of the Arts’ Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory. In 2006, he published Dispositif of the Body: 《Merleau-Ponty and the Limits of Phenomenology》 which won the Young Scholar Writing Prize of Academia Sinica in 2007. Since 2010, he has been serving as editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine, 《Art Critique of Taiwan (ACT)》, which won the National Publishing Prize in 2011. 

 

He began doing contemporary art curatorial work in 2013, and has co-curated “Are We Working too Much?”; “The Return of Ghosts”; “Wild Rhizome”; “TAKAO. Taike. Southern Hue”, and other exhibitions. He also curated “Kau-Puê, Mutual Companionship in Near Future: 2017 Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival”, which won the Taishin Arts Award Annual Grand Prize in 2018. 《Hunter-Gatherer Leading the Route: Traces to the Sources of Zeng-wen River》, which he was the editor-in-chief of, won the 45th Golden Tripod Award in 2021 for the non-fiction category. “The 2022 Mattauw Earth Triennial - Tseng-wen River, A River with A Thousand Names”, which Gong curated and won the 2023 Good Design Gold Award in Japan, is considered his most iconic work amongst his recent curatorial endeavors.