Ling-Wen Tsai (蔡姈妏) was born in Taiwan. Her practice spans a broad range of mediums and disciplines including: installation, performance, sculpture, video, photography, painting, and drawing. While embracing these different mediums, she strives to free them from the confines of definition. Her recent projects explore how our surroundings, whether natural or built, have an influence on our state of mind and shape our lives.
Tsai is Professor of Sculpture and MFA at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D). She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Washington University, a BA in Studio Art from Webster University, and a graduate certificate in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). She also holds a BS degree from Chung-Shan Medical University in Taiwan.
Tsai has exhibited and performed her work nationally and internationally, including at: Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France); Siena Art Institute (Siena, Italy); Golden Parachutes (Berlin, Germany); Richmond Art Gallery (British Columbia, Canada); Tainan University of Technology (Tainan, Taiwan); Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), Gyeonggi-do, Korea; Qasim Sabti Gallery (Baghdad, Iraq); Halim Bey Municipal Art Gallery (Mytilene, Greece); Asian Cultural Center (New York, NY); Goethe-Institute (Boston, MA); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (St. Louis, MO); Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI); ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL); Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, ME); Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockport, ME); Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME); SPEEDWELL Contemporary (Portland, ME).
Funded through a generous gift from Dr. Edward M. Friedman '08 and Carole J. Friedman, in honor of Sculpture Professor Emeritus Gary Ambrose.