Poyuan Juan is a Taipei-based artist whose work investigates the cultural afterlives of digital platforms, with a focus on online games, virtual environments, and the aesthetics of technological obsolescence. Juan’s practice operates at the intersection of digital archaeology and new media art, tracing the residues of networked interaction and interrogating the material conditions of virtual experience. Drawing on his background in visual arts and his immersion in post-internet culture, he integrates machinima, game engines, and 3D imaging tools to create time-based works that explore cyberqueer narratives, online communities, and the collapsing boundary between simulation and memory. His work asks what remains when virtual worlds decay, and how histories unfold within algorithmic architectures.
Poyuan Juan has held solo exhibitions at venues including Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Digital Art Center, and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. His works have been exhibited and screened internationally at institutions and festivals such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Milan Machinima Festival, Festival ECRÃ (Brazil), Videoclub (London), Videotage (HK), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. And he was a finalist for the 2024 Taipei Art Award.
Education
[2022] BFA, Department of Fine Arts, National Taipei University of the Arts, Taiwan
[2026] MFA, Department of Fine Arts, National Taipei University of the Arts, Taiwan
Residencies
[2025] MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
[2024] SODAS 2123 Cultural Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
[2022] Crypto Residency Program, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Solos
[2025] There is a Glare on my screen, Frees Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
[2023] Map, texture, and material, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
[2023] Yes, I’m a simp. Simply in love with…, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
[2022] Pervert in Silence, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Awards
[2026] Jury Special Award, Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
[2024] Finalist, Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
[2024] Selected Award, Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
[2023] Nominee (Q2), Taishin Arts Award, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Taiwan
[2021] First Prize, Contemporary Sculpture Lih Pao Prize, Lih Pao Cultural Arts Foundation, Taiwan
[2021] Grand Prize, TNUA Contemporary Art Prize, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts & TNUA, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
[2026] 38th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
[2025] SIMULTAN Festival 2025—Re:MEDIATE, Timisoara, Romania
[2025] Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
[2025] Athens Digital Arts Festival 21st, Technopolis, Athens
[2025] Radial Minds, Pfizer Building, New York, USA
[2025] Milan Machinima Festival’, Microcinema MUBI @Vidiots, Los Angeles, USA
[2025] Sleepless Video Art Night / CYLAND Video Archive, Venice, Italy
[2025] Taipei Art Award, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
[2023] Still force of images, Yáo Alternative Space, Taichung, Taiwan
[2023] Signal Z, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
[2022] Crossing San Guan, Bamboo Curtain Studio, New Taipei, Taiwan
[2022] Both Sides Now 7, Videotage & videoclub, Hong Kong & UK
[2022] Milan Machinima Festival, MIC-Interactive Cinema Museum, Milan, Italy
[2021] Digital Art Festival Taipei 16th, The Red House&Taipei Digital art center, Taipei, Taiwan
[2021] Athens Digital Arts Festival 17st, Historic Centre of Athens, Athens, Greece
[2021] D-Normal/V-Essay: Presencing … Becoming,Floating Projects, Hong Kong
[2020] Tsiam nia Tam Tsui River, Bamboo Curtain Studio, New Taipei, Taiwan
[2020] Digital Art Festival Taipei 15th, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
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