Au Sow Yee
Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Au Sow Yee now lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. She holds a master’s degree in filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and another master’s degree in new media art from the Taipei National University of the Arts. She specializes in mixed formats of video, conceptual art, installation and creates artworks that explore and extend from images and the production of images, as well as the connections between history, politics, and power. A recipient for Honorable Mention of the 2021 Taipei Arts Award, she was shortlisted for Han Nefkens Foundation’s Loop Barcelona Video Art Award in 2018; the Asia Pacific Breweries Signature Art Prize in 2018; and the 18th and 14th Taishin Arts Award. She has shown her artworks in 2022 Busan Biennale We, on the Rising Wave, Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2017); 2 or 3 Tigers at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW, 2017); Asian Film and Video Art Forum at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA, 2017); Condition Report: Mode of Liaisons at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC, 2017); Taipei Biennial 2018: Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem; and One Song and the Boat at the Times Museum, Guangzhou (2021-2022). Her artworks are collected by international institutions, including the Singapore Art Museum and Japan’s Aura Contemporary Art Foundation. Sow Yee is a guest writer for online magazine No Man’s Land and co-founded Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective in 2017.