Born in 1979 Tainan, Taiwan
Wu Gengzhen (Jam Wu) graduated from Shih Chien University Architecture department in 2006. He is an emerging artist who works in the mediums of photography, set design and even poetry. His works are inspired from his childhood memories of growing up playing near the riverside in Tainan. In 2006 he won the Emerging artist grant from Taiwan’s renowned dance troupe, Cloud Gate. With his grant money, he seized the opportunity to travel and research in northwest China. During his travels he was inspired by Chinese folk art, and its relation to eastern philosophy and religion.

While his work is often conceived as being predominantly decorative and design based, his recent museum and public space installations have given rise to personally commentary unique histories of Taiwan and mainland China, emphasizing issues of self-identification and ‘oriental-ization’ in contemporary Chinese art.
 
Education
2006
Bachelor in Architecture, Shin Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan

Exhibitions
2009 
SuperGeneration@Taiwan, Shanghai Art Museum, Today Art Museum
The 6th Chinese Character Festival, Making Waves Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dimension Endowment of Art (DEOA), Taipei
River 2: Tracking Upstream, Taipei
Watermill Center, Art-residency, New York
Ghost Festival Installation Art, Culture Affairs Bureau of Keelung
Art Show 3, Fubon Art Foundation
Contemporary Value, Ever Harvest Art Gallery
Art On Balcony, Project Fulfill Art Space
Umbilical Card, MOCA Taipei Studio
New- Media Public Art - Taipei Lantern Festival, Taipei City Hall
Cattle Installation Art, Taishin Holdings, Taishin Art Foundation
Cow Parade Taipei, Huashan Art District, Fubon Art Foundation
2008 
Cross-strait Cultural Industries Fair, Xiamen Culture And Art Museum
SuperGeneration@Taiwan, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
Formula1: 2008 A New Generation, My Humble House, Taipei
Art Taipei 2008, Made In Taiwan Award Show, Taipei
VERY FUN PARK, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei
My Little Box, Harbourfront centre, Vancouver, Canada
Wandering Flower: Wu Gengzhen’s Papercuts, Taishin Holdings, President Office gallery, National Taiwan Craft Research Institute,      National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, ShinKong-Mitsukoshi department public square
2007 
JuMing Museum Encamping Artist, JuMing Museum
Exhibition Of Paper Craft in Taiwan, SuHo Memorial Paper Museum, National Center for Traditional Art
The Story Behind Taiwan Paper-cuts, Culture Affairs Bureau of Hsinchu County
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Golden Bough Theater stage artist, Little White House Theater, Tanshui, Taiwan
First Asia City Youth Drama Festival, stage design for Avant-garde East Theater, Beijing
Evocation, nominated Taoyuan Creation Award, Taipei
2006
Taiwan Papercutting 2006, nominated Taipei Fine Arts Award, Taipei
Cloud Gate Wanderer Plan, Award Exhibition, Taipei