Chen Wan-Ching / artAngel

Painter based in Tamsui, Taiwan

Biography

Chen Wan-Ching (artAngel) is an artist based in Tamsui, Taiwan. Drawing on music, faith, and light as the core of her practice, she works primarily in oil painting.

She is currently a full-time resident artist at the New Taipei City International Artist Village, and is also active as an art educator.

Artist Statement

In recent years, her practice has centred on translating the sensation of music into visual form, weaving musical rhythm and resonance into the painted surface. Rather than treating painting as something merely to be looked at, she seeks to create works that can be “heard” — where music is felt through the movement of colour and line.

Within her compositions, dots become musical notes, light becomes faith, and flowing lines become rhythm, each transformed into colour and pictorial structure. Connecting childhood memories of music and the piano to her present-day painting, she renders the sensations, memories, and emotions that music evokes into visible form, pursuing a distinctive language of “music × painting.”

2026 Invited artist, Jeju International Art Fair (JIAF), Jeju, South Korea (October)

2026 Second Prize, 3rd Asian Art Rising Star Award — New World Symphony: Going Home

2026 Emerging artist, Chengyi Asia Bay Art Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2026 Selected work, Bank Art Fair Seoul, Spring Edition, South Korea

2026 Group exhibition, The Last Piece of Home — Taipei Design & Building Materials Center × Hobe Artists

2025 Group exhibition, Traces of Hobe Time — New Taipei City Resident Artists Showcase

2025 Selected as resident artist, New Taipei City Tamsui International Artist Village

2024 Invited artist, 35th Anniversary Art & Culture Exhibition, Taichung Municipal Wen-Hua Senior High School

2023 Solo exhibition, Painting the Inner Landscape, Tamsui, Taiwan

2021 Honourable Mention, Mellow Art Award, Japan — Three Cats