1981年 出生於臺灣臺北
2007年 東海大學美術系 碩士

重要經歷
2022年 中國信託當代繪畫獎，入選
2010年 高雄美術獎，首獎
2008年 台北美術獎，首獎

王挺宇，1981年出生於台北，目前定居於台中，專職藝術創作，以繪畫、雕塑做為主要創作形式。作品中的圖像大多是關於天文、地圖、中古世紀、神話，其主要還是反映這些圖像所建構世界中的空間關係。

2008年獲得台北美術獎，2010年獲得高雄美術獎，另外作品也獲得國美館與藝術銀行典藏。

創作理念
無論在繪畫或是雕塑上，皆有以來自他處的圖像所形成的信息特徵，藉此回應古騰堡印刷術所代表的圖像傳遞本質。

我時常覺得自己不是在真正的做”美術”，而是在做”文件”。我的作品其實並不是在表達自然事物，而是在呈現時代信息給予我們的視覺形式，也就是我時常談到的框架或是介面，那往往才是我認為我們理解世界的方式。

我時常覺得世間的事物其實都像是塑膠模型上的支架上的小零件，而我們連繫彼此的支架很可能才是真實的存在，而我們所認為的真往往相較於更為虛假。

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b.1981, Taipei, Taiwan.
2007 M.F.A., Department of Fine Arts, Tunghai University, Taiwan.

IMPORTANT EXPERIENCE

2022　CTBC Contemporary Painting Award, Selected
2010　Kaohsiung Awards, First Prize
2008　Taipei Arts Awards, First Prize

STATEMENT

Wang Ting-Yu, born in 1981 in Taipei and currently based in Taichung, is a full-time artist working primarily in painting and sculpture. The imagery in his works often draws from astronomy, cartography, the medieval era, and mythology. At its core, his practice reflects on the spatial relationships constructed within the worlds these images create.

He received the Taipei Art Award in 2008 and the Kaohsiung Fine Arts Award in 2010. His works have also been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and by the Art Bank Taiwan.

CONCEPT

Across both painting and sculpture, his works incorporate informational characteristics formed by images that originate elsewhere, responding to the essential nature of image transmission symbolized by Gutenberg’s printing press.

I often feel that I am not truly practicing Fine Art, but producing documents. My works are not expressions of natural phenomena; rather, they present the visual forms shaped by the information of our time. What I frequently refer to as the “framework” or the “interface” is, to me, the very structure through which we come to understand the world.

I often feel that things in the world resemble small components attached to the sprues of a plastic model kit. The sprues that connect these parts may in fact be the more real existence, while what we take to be reality is, by comparison, even more illusory.