The Boat and The Sea 180x110cm 2018 / Installation view at Beyond The Barricade, Gallery 3, Kent University , UK

The Boat and The Sea 180x110cm 2018 / Installation view at Beyond The Barricade, Gallery 3, Kent University , UK

Peihang Benoît

Peihang explores time, space, memory and displacement in her practice.

Inspired by her own experience of diaspora, she starts with collages of images gleaned both from historical materials and contemporary everyday media. Peihang weaves the hidden relations between visual documents of the human experience mostly through painting; also ceramic, photography and other project based approaches.

Born in Taipei, 1984, moved to the U.S. with her academic parents at a very young age and then moved back to Taipei, then in London, and Paris. Peihang has a bilingual upbringing and an experience of changing countries multiple times that reflects a general human condition especially in contemporary time. She has also been influenced by her feminist mother, seen as a modern woman in the society in her own time. These experiences has provoked her interest into such subjects in her practice.

She holds both BA and MFA degree in Fine Art at National Taiwan Normal University, and received another MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts in contemporary painting. She has gained the Chi-Mei awards from Chi-Mei Museum, The Chu Teh- Chun Award and has been a recent finalist of Hopper Prize (US, 2023) and shortlisted in the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize(UK, 2018). Her works have been exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery, Macau Art Museum, Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Pier 2 Art Center, AKI Gallery, and Yiri Arts; in Taiwan, U.K., China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and other countries.


 

Contact: peihang1@gmail.com