BIO

Taaye (b. Hong Kong, based in Vancouver) holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited across Canada and internationally. Recent exhibitions include  Fluttering Stillness at Centre A (2026) in Vancouver. Group exhibitions include The Fragments of Minerals 山石采彡 in Hong Kong and Art Rich 2025 at Richmond Art Gallery in Richmond, Canada.

Her work has been recognized with multiple grants, including the Canada Council for the Arts (2024, 2025), the BC Arts Council (2025), and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Emerging Artist Grant (2025). She has shared her expertise through workshops and artist talks with Malaspina Printmakers, Opus Art Supplies, and the Burnaby Art Guild. She is currently a board member at Access Gallery in Vancouver.

Artist Statment

Taaye is an artist who weaves personal narratives with cultural memory under social conditioning and internal disposition. Working with East Asian mineral pigments (iwaenogu or yan cai 岩彩), a material-driven process medium that embraces slowness, she creates space for grief, resilience, and transformation, bridging material knowledge with lived experience.

Her imagery draws from folk tales, Cantonese/Chinese motifs, hybrid bird-like creatures, and faraway landscapes. Through these elements she reconstructs selfhood, inviting viewers to reflect on impermanence, belonging, and the enduring threads that connect past, present, and future. Each work becomes a vessel for questioning what endures, what is carried forward, and what must be newly imagined.

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