Guest Artists Exhibition 2023

Miguel A. Aragón | 曾美禎 MEI CHEN Tseng

Miguel A. Aragón
The Boston Printmakers→

Aragon’s works explore subjects of violence, transient and/or persistent memory, perception and the multiple; he uses erasure as language through the use of processes that are reductive in nature. His work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Aragón has exhibited internationally. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH; and Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany. Aragón’s work has been published in ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum; Princeton University Press, 2020).

He lives and works in New York City (USA) and Berlin (Germany);

Mei Chen Tseng
Royal Society of Painter Printmakers→

is a Taiwanese artist and a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers UK. She holds a degree in English Literature from Fu-Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan, and earned a diploma and master’s degree in Painting and Printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the Rome University of Fine Arts, Italy.

She possesses teaching experience at Fu-Jen University and the National Taiwan University of Arts. She founded the Burin Studio in Taipei and the “Mei Chen Tseng Printmaking Studio” in Rome.

Her works have been showcased in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. For instance, she participated in the “Immediati dintorni” exhibition at the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome, Italy, and recently held a solo exhibition titled “Philosophic Dialogue between Light and Shadow” at the Helios Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan.

She has garnered significant accolades, including the Full Fellowship as a guest artist at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia. Her artistic practice spans a range of forms, including video, installation, drawing and painting, with a particular focus on large scale wood engraving.