Jin Ke
KO CHIN
2002 TAIWAN
KO CHIN (b. 2002, Taoyuan) lives and works in Taipei. Working primarily with painting, her practice examines the relationship between bodily experience, private space, and mechanisms of looking. Drawing from everyday environments, personal memory, mythological structures, and symbolic narratives, her work transforms and reconfigures bodily imagery to explore how suppressed sensory experiences are observed, projected, and represented. In 2024, the Private Bathhouse series focuses on states of bodily disorientation as the body moves between private and public realms, further questioning the symbolic meanings of the nude within art history. In recent years, her practice has expanded to explore the relationship between bodily perception and identity formation.
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Award
Awards
2023 – First Prize, Chi-Chuan Award, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Chi-Chuan Cultural Foundation, Kaohsiung
2024 – Selected Artist, Kaohsiung Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
2024 – Honorable Mention, Pingtung Award, Pingtung Art Museum
2025 – Selected, China Trust Contemporary Painting Award
Education
Education
2020 BFA Department of Fine Arts, National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU)
2025 MFA Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA)
Solo exhibition
Solo Exhibition
2023 – Private Bathhouse, Yeyan, Kaohsiung
Overseas plans
Overseas Programs
2024 – Overseas Research Program, Tiamay Art Foundation: New York & Montreal
2025 – Converges, International Exchange Exhibition, Nalarroepa Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2025 《Pulau Ketam International Art Festival ACTour Ketam 2025》Pulau Ketam, Malaysia
Exhibition Experience
Selected Exhibitions
2020 – New Artists: Recommended Graduation Works, Dadun Cultural Center, Taichung
2021 – Kaohsiung Art Fair, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung
2021 – Rolling Amendments, Annual Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts, 116 Art Center, Kaohsiung
2022 – Kaohsiung Art Fair, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung
2023 – Double Helix, NKNU x TNUA Exchange Exhibition, 116 Art Center, Kaohsiung
2023 – Gen Z: The Daily Murmurs of Neutrality, Annual Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts, 116 Art Center, Kaohsiung
2024 – Kaohsiung Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung
2024 – New Artists: Recommended Graduation Works, Dadun Cultural Center, Taichung
2024 – Pingtung Award, Pingtung Art Museum, Pingtung
2024 – Hundred-Layer Tofu: Artist Book Joint Exhibition, FLIP Asia, Taipei
2025 –Converges International Exchange Exhibition, Nalarroepa Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
