EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES/SCREENINGS
2023 The Last Season on Earth: Maine College of Art & Design 2023 Faculty Triennial, (Juried by Sam Adams) Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Maine (Catalogue)
2022 Ling-Wen Tsai: Quiet Voids, SPEEDWELL projects, Portland, Maine (Solo/ Catalogue/ Documentary)
2022 Resonant Voids, conceptual score performed by musicians Nathan Kolosko & Carl Dimow, SPEEDWELL projects, Portland, Maine
2022 …we sustain ourselves... by building communities…, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Maine
2021 REverb, Zero Station, Portland, Maine, (Curated by Tracey Cockrell & J.E. Paterak)
2021 Abstraction, The In Art Gallery, theinartgallery.com, (Juried by Professor Emeritus, Ron Fondaw from Washington University in St. Louis.)
2020 …to unravel the bind: 2020 Faculty Triennial, (Juried by Ellen Yoshi Tani,) Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine (Catalogue)
2020 Resilience of Diversity, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2019 Grounding, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, Pennsylvania
2019 Reflections of The Human Spirit, Abyssinian Meeting House, Portland, Maine
2018 Squares, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2018 Empathy, A. D. Gallery, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina
2018 Drawing II- The Other Day, Engine, Biddeford, Maine
2018 Liminal No.3, Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival, Bob Crewe Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2018 Paper in Particular, Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
2017 Square, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
2016 Ontology of Influence, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue)
2015 SomewHERE, Common Street Arts Gallery, Waterville, Maine
2014 Collision and Confluence, Asian Cultural Center, New York, New York
2014 citydrift: Portland, Old Port + SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine
2013 Memory, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
2013 Marks, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2012 Maine Women Pioneers III- Vanguard, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine (catalogue)
2012 ling-wen tsai: enclosure, Art House, Portland, Maine (solo)
2012 Portes, Halim Bey Mytilene Public Theater, Mytilene, Greece
2012 A Thickening Rhythm, Coleman Burke Gallery, Brunswick, Maine (catalogue)
2011 Enclosure, Mason Blanche, Tainan, Taiwan (solo)
2011 Visual Language, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine
2011 Intimate Abstractions, Rose Contemporary, Portland, Maine
2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2011 Seven x 11, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapid, Michigan
2011 Chain Letter, Golden Parachutes, Berlin, Germany
2011 Associations, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapid, Michigan
2010 drawing: marks, traces & imprints, Charles Danforth Gallery, University of Maine at Augusta
2009 ling-wen tsai: liminal landscapes, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (catalogue)
2009 ling-wen tsai, selections from "water & wind," Media Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
2009 New Work: Ling-Wen Tsai, Whitney Artworks, Portland, Maine
2009 one/another (video collaboration with Deborah Wing-Sproul); Festival Images Contre Nature, Video Library, Marseilles, France
2009 overlap (performance collaboration with Deborah Wing-Sproul); The Month of May/ 179 Canal Street, New York, New York
2009 one/another (video collaboration with Deborah Wing-Sproul); TransCultural Exchange: Here There and Everywhere, Anticipating the Art of the Future, Tampopo Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan, and SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine, USA (catalogue)
2009 17 Days (video series), CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2009 17 Days (video series), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
2009 The Portland Paper Project, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
2008 Merhaba Baghdad, Qasim Sabti Gallery, Karada, Baghdad, Iraq
2008 The Crossing of Time and Environment (outdoor micro-installation exhibition), Toshei Village, Tainan, Taiwan (catalogue)
2008 The Crossing of Time and Environment (indoor documentation exhibition), Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan (catalogue)
2008 17 Days (video series), Alfred State College, Alfred, New York
2008 Ruminant, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine (catalogue)
2008 17 Days (video series), Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
2008 17 Days (video series), Richmond Center for Visual Arts, The Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2007 SPLIT, drawing room, Portland, Maine
2007 W! [WATER] International Video Art Event, W! Space, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Bari, Italy
2007 Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, Maine (catalogue)
2007 Time Out, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
2007 Winter Screening, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Winter Screening, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2007 003 Portland Film and Video Artist Collective: One Take Super 8 Screening, Zero Station, Portland, Maine
2007 The Old Photo Box (live visual reflections to the piano concert The Old Photo Box: 20 solo piano pieces by composer Lior Navok), Goethe-Institute Boston
2007 Lines-I: Vermillion Performance Series, Drawing Room, Portland, Maine
2007 Lines-II, SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine
2007 PFVAC+SPACE: New Projections+Installations, SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine
2006 FRAME: International Video Festival, Rivoli Teatro Municipal/ESAP/Escola das Artes--Porto, Portugal
2006 Opening, Drawing Room, Portland, Maine
2006 001 Film/Video Screening, Portland Film and Video Artists Collective, Zero Station, Portland, Maine
2006 MECA: Connections, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine
2005 Metamorphosis of Meditation (a collaborative performance with ISQ: Improvisational String Quartet, an evening of improvised music & visual art), Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2005 Faculty Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2004 New Gallery Concert Series (installation & performance), Community Music Center of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 George Winston Solo Piano Concert (installation), First Parish Church, Portland, Maine
2004 Cassandra Project: Performance Festival, Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, Maine
2004 Invocation: Fly (a performance for the 93rd Maine College of Art Commencement), Merrill Auditorium, Portland, Maine
2004 Bird, Open Press Ltd, Denver, Colorado
2004 Touch, The Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
2003 The place, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2003 Strips, Plum Gallery, Portland, Maine
2003 Zero Portfolio II, Zero Station, Portland, Maine
2002 Zero Portfolio I, Zero Station, Portland, Maine
2002 A Taste of Asia, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine
2002 International Exhibition of Women's Art, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York City
2002 Faculty Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2002 Summer Faculty Show, York Library, York, Maine
2002 Terrain: Sculpture Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2001 Outside The Box, IN/FORM Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2001 CounterParts, Three Sinks Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (two-person)
2000 MOAK 4 State Regional, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri (catalogue)
2000 Critical Mass: One Night Stand, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis Art Faculty Exhibition, Art Gallery, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 Exposure 3: Aspects of Being, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 Master of Fine Art Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 GMWC Annual Group Show, Gallery Michael Williamses' Closet, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 Phenomenal Woman 2000, Bixby Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 East Meets West, St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 Nadadada: Performance Art Festival, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 Migration, The MacLennan Gallery of Asian Art, St. Louis, Missouri (solo)
1999 Critical Mass: One Night Stand, East Bank Studio, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 Regional VI, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1999 19 Artists, A.D. Brown Building, St. Louis, Missouri
1998 Departure, Baldwin Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (solo)
1997 Island Girl: Learning to Swim, Midtown Art Center, St. Louis, Missouri (solo)
1997 BA Exhibition, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
1996 1996 Tainan Phenomena, Tainan, Taiwan (catalogue)
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION
Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Maine (Teaching full-time since 2001)
2017-present Professor of Sculpture
2022 (Fall) Chair of Sculpture Department
2011-2017 Chair of Sculpture Department
2007-2017 Associate Professor of Sculpture
2004-present M.F.A. Studio Advisor
2006-2007 Chair of Sculpture Department
2001-2007 Assistant Professor of Sculpture
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 Juror & Panelist, Exhaale (Outdoor Sculpture Biennale), Art in the Park, Elm Park, Worcester, Massachusetts
2020 Panelist, Three-Dimensional Art Fellowship Awards, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Providence, Rhode Island
2020 External Reviewer ( Rank Change: Associate Professor to Professor,) State University of New York at New Paltz.
2019 Juror & Curator, Interludes (Large-Scale Sculpture Biennale), Art in the Park, Elm Park, Worcester, Massachusetts
2018 Juror & Curator, Empathy, A. D. Gallery, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina
2015 Visiting Professor, Sculpture Department, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts (XAFA), Xi'an, China
2015 Summer Visiting Artist, Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Portland, Oregon
2006 Founding Member of Portland Film and Video Artists Collective
2001 Set Design Supervisor, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Terry M. Fischer Theatre at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, Missouri
2000-2001 Art Instructor, Sculpture, 3-D Design, 2-D Design, Sculpture Lab Supervisor, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 Artist Assistant, Charles Simonds, New York City
2000 Teaching Assistant, Time Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1996-2000 Art Instructor, St. Louis Chinese Language School, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 Teaching Assistant, Drawing, 2-D Design, Sculpture, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1998 Teaching Assistant, 3-D Design, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1997 Internship, St. Louis Gallery Association, St. Louis, Missouri (assistant of Jennifer Donavon, Executive Director)
1997 Gallery Assistant, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
1997 Artist Assistant, Johann Feilacher, sculpture project at Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
1996 Art Editor, Chinese Liberty Journal, St. Louis, Missouri
1995 Art Editor, Wen-Ho Journal, Tainan, Taiwan
1993-95 Art Instructor, Yanagi Studio, Tainan, Taiwan
GRANTS/HONORS/AWARDS
2021 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2017 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2012 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2011 Faculty Curator, Notions (a web-based thesis exhibition,) Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2009 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2008 Selected Studio Visit by Jen Mergel, associate curator at ICA Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Co-Curator and Speaker, The Crossing of Time and Environment (exhibition and conference), Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
2008 Co-Curator, 007: Acts & Actions (thirteen works in video exploring moving image duration), Zero Station, Portland, Maine
2008 Selected Studio Visit by Raechell Smith, director/curator of H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas, Missouri
2006 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2005 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2003 Artist-in-Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2003 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2003 Panelist, Memory, Place, and Space, Southern Humanities Council Conference, Athens, Georgia
2001 Selected Studio Visit, Beate Kemfert, German critic, curator and co-owner of Beetz & Kemfert Kunstberatung
2001 Selected Studio Visit, Susan Snodgrass, critic, curator and editor for Art in America
1999 Invited Panelist, Contemporary Sculpture: Figure, Body, Stand-in, a panel discussion moderated by curator Mel Watkin, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 Selected Studio Visit, Okwui Enwezor, critic and curator, Artistic Director of Documenta XI, 2002, in Kassel Germany, adjunct curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
1999 Selected Studio Visit, Sue Spaid, critic and curator at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio
1999 International Student Merit Scholarship, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 Selected Studio Visit, Michael Auping, co-curator of Whitney Biennial, curator of Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
1999 Wahlert Scholarship, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 School of Art Scholarship, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1998 School of Art Scholarship, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1997 Cecille R. Hunt Memorial Award, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
1995 The Excellent Teaching Skill in Arts and Craft, Tainan Government, Taiwan
LECTURES/TALKS
2022 Artist Talk, Quiet Voids, SPEEDWELL projects, Portland, Maine
2021 Presenter, Mother / hungry / shadow, Collaboration with Poet Jan Bindas-Tenney, Belfast Poetry Festival, Belfast, Maine
2020 Artist Talk, Liminal, …to unravel the bind: 2020 Faculty Triennial, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2018 Panelist, Expanded, Extended, Multi-, Inter-, and Trans-disciplinary: Where is sculptural education today?, International Sculpture Conference: Defining Moments in the Face of Change, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2015 Visiting Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Portland, Oregon
2015 Artist Lecture, Ling-Wen Tsai: Exploring Artistic Creativity, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts (XAFA), Xi'an, China
2015 Artist Lecture, Installation Art and Performance Art, Sculpture Department, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts (XAFA), Xi'an, China
2015 Artist Talk, Migration Stories, Ya Ji: East/West Cultural Gatherings, ThinkTank, Portland, Maine
2015 Studio Visit, Migrations, for students from Colby College, Waterville, Maine
2014 Artist Talk, Performance Art, for students from Casco Bay High School, Portland, Maine
2013 Artist Lecture, Ling-Wen Tsai: Works in Context, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
2012 Artist Talk, Sitting Quietly, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
2012 Panelist, Intermedia: a panel discussion examining the relationship between dance, visual, and media arts moderated by Aimee M. Petrin, Executive Director of Portland Ovations, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2012 Artist Lecture, Exploring Creativity, Madou Cultural Hall, Tainan, Taiwan
2010 Artist Lecture, Seeing and Thinking in Drawing, University of Maine, Augusta, Maine
2009 Artist Lecture (with Deborah Wing-Sproul), one/another collaborations, UMVA: Union of Maine Visual Artists, Warren Memorial Library, Westbrook, Maine
2008 Guess Speaker, The Crossing of Time and Environment (exhibition and conference), Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
2008 Artist Lecture, Ruminant, the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2007 Artist Talk, Meet the Biennial Artists, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
2007 Artist Talk, Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2005 Artist Talk, Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2002 Artist Talk, Terrain: Sculpture Today, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2002 Artist Talk, Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
1999 Invited Panelist, Contemporary Sculpture: Figure, Body, Stand-in, a panel discussion moderated by curator Mel Watkin, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 Artist Talk, Migration, The MacLennan Gallery of Asian Art, St. Louis, Missouri
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Jorge S. Arango, “Maine College of Art & Design faculty show ranges serene to apocalyptic,” Maine Sunday Telegram, February 5
2021 Jorge S. Arango, “Listen as you look at the works on display in ‘REverb’,” Maine Sunday Telegram, October 17
2016 Sarah Moore, "Beyond Sculpture," Portland Magazine, September
2012 Daniel Kany, "A bold feminist statement at UNE," Maine Sunday Telegram, November 25
2012 Bob Keyes, "Postcards from the cutting edge," Maine Sunday Telegram, November 18
2012 Taryn Plumb, "Maine Woman Pioneers III: Vanguard," artscope, November/December
2012 Nicholas Schroeder, "UNE's impressive third all-female exhibit," The Portland Phoenix, November 14
2012 Ken Greenleaf, "Installation at Coleman Burke: Quiet Witness," The Portland Phoenix, April 11
2011 Daniel Kany, "They're just little things, but these works are weighty indeed," Portland Press Herald, October 2
2011 Jeremy Spiegel, MD, "Art Healing," Seishin Books, Portland, Maine
2010 Daniel Kany, "Gallery puts on splendid show of drawing-based artworks," Portland Press Herald, October 3
2009 Caley Bryce Ostrander, "Thinking Outside the Frame," Portland Magazine, September
2009 Avery Yale Kamila, "Reflected Landscape," The Maine Switch, July 23-August 5
2009 Diana Tuite, "ling-wen tsai: liminal landscapes," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Summer
2009 Elena Sarni, "Deborah Wing-Sproul & Ling-Wen Tsai @ SPACE," Big Red & Shiny, March 15
2008 Nadine Wasserman, "Gimme Shelter," Ruminant, ICA at Maine College of Art, Fall
2008 Elena Sarni, "Ruminant," artscope, September/October
2007 Ian Paige, "Three Pieces, Three Places," The Portland Phoenix, December 7
2007 Andrew Colvin, "Inspiration in All Its Forms at Borestone--Water Bugs," Habitat: Journal of Maine Audubon, Fall
2007 Ian Paige, "Moving Stillness," The Portland Phoenix, September 7
2007 Avery Yale Kamila, "Motion in View," The Maine Switch, September 20-26
2004 Gan Xu, "Globalization of Conceptual Art," Conceptual Art, People's Fine Art publisher, Beijing, China
2002 Victoria Gannon, "Performance art--huh? Portland artists define the undefined art form," Casco Bay Weekly, November 21
2002 Philip Isaacson, "No doubt about it, sculpture show sizzles," Maine Sunday Telegram, March 17
2002 Jenna Russell, "On solid ground," The Portland Phoenix, March 22
2000 Jeff Daniel, "Aspects of being," St. Louis Post--Dispatch, July 30
2000 Ivy Schroeder, "Human being," The River Front Times (St. Louis) August 9-15
1997 Wendy Huang, "Island girl: Learning to swim," St. Louis Chinese Journal, Missouri, October 2
EDUCATION
2017 Graduate Certificate, Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cambridge, Massachusetts
2000 MFA, Sculpture (Honors,) Washington University, Graduate School of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
1997 BA, Studio Art (Honors,) Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
1993 BS, Nursing, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Founding Member of Portland Film and Video Artist Collective (PFVAC)
Member of College Art Association (CAA)
LANGUAGES
Chinese (Mandarin), Taiwanese, English
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
South Portland Public Library, South Portland, Maine
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
George Winston, Christine Vincent, Hong-Wen Lin, Jay York, Aimee & Mark Bessire, Alison Hildreth, Osamu Miyaki, Carol Ross, Amy Stacey Curtis, Oivind and Darrell Lorentzen, Gerald Florenza, Beata Niedzialkowska and Joe Begnaud
COMMISSIONS
Claus Fimmel, Christine Vincent, Nathan Kolosko, Seth Warner, Iznaola Guitar Works (IGW)