Chen Ching-Yuan is currently a graduate student at the School of Fine Arts of the Taipei National University of the Arts. Chen was awarded the Outstanding Art Prize at the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2008 and the Kaohsiung Award’s first prize in 2009. His works focus on the dilemma of the unstable and weak perceptions generated when one has to face an uncontrollable and tremendous pressure. He uses his work to explain his connection to today’s society, and creates visual metaphors for a reality which modern people cannot escape. In 2009, he held a solo exhibition The LiQUiD STATE at VT Artsalon in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2010, STATE OF _, a solo exhibition at the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Taipei, Taiwan, and in 2011, Staggering Matter, a solo exhibition at TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan.