Yong Kian Sam
Curriculum Vitae
My practice originates from my engagement with materials and tools during the process of making. The sounds in my work emerge from labor and its surrounding environment — the plucking of guitar strings, the crack of stone being struck apart, or the rhythmic pulse of a nail gun fastening wood. These sounds form the formal foundation of my sculptural practice; I seek to capture the sounds that arise naturally within these lived processes and transform them into works.
By extending the traditional understanding of sculpture's "visuality" and "materiality" into the auditory realm of "sound," the audience's reception of my work begins with listening, before expanding into the tactile and the visual. This reversal upends our habitual mode of encountering sculpture. Through sound, I give form to the "temporality of sculpture" — a response to my own condition of labor. I therefore choose to preserve sound within the finished work, so that viewers, in the act of looking, may sense through sound the accumulated traces of labor and the weight of time condensed within each piece.
Solo Exhibitions
2020- "Stone. Motor 000 - Kian Sam Yong Solo Exhibition", King Car Art Center, Taipei City, Taiwan
2018- (A Decadent Life), No. 5 Yongfu, New Taipei City, Taiwan 2017- (Carpe Diem), Nan Bei Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan
Group Exhibitions
2026- “Windy Hills: Brewers of Civilization.” Mizuiro Workshop, Tainan, Taiwan
2024- "The 25th Hour" Keelung Art Museum, Keelung City, Taiwan
2024- "Tomorrow Regeneration: Sustainability, Environment, Imagination" Hsinchu Railway Art Village, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
2023- "Between Inside/Outside" - Sculpture Workshop Exhibition, TNUA Nan Bei Gallery, Taipei City, Taiwan
2020- "Tián Tián Six-Person Group Exhibition", “2020 TNUA Department of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition Off-Campus Area”, Air Force No. 3 Village, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2019- "The 2nd Lihpao Contemporary Sculpture Awards", TNUA Underground Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
2019- BMS YOUNG CONTEMPORARIES OPEN+LAB, National Art Gallery BMS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2019- Fine Art Creators Excellence Award - "Seeing Urban Space", Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan
Awards
2025- 2026 Tainan New Arts Award “Windy Hills: Brewers of Civilization.”
2024- 2025 Hualien Art Exhibition - Honorable Mention
2024- The 6th Lihpao Contemporary Sculpture Awards - First Prize
2024- The 29th Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City
2019- The 2nd Lihpao Contemporary Sculpture Awards - Honorable Mention
2019- Fine Art Creators Excellence Award "Seeing" Urban Space Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
1996- born in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
楊健生
履歷
我的創作源於我在工作過程中對材料與工具的思考。作品中的聲音來自於勞動的過程與所處的環境——例如撥動吉他弦的聲響、石塊被敲擊至碎裂的聲音、或是釘槍釘製木作的節奏。這些聲音成為我雕塑創作的形式基礎，我試圖捕捉這些生活過程中自然產生的聲響，並將它們轉化為作品。
將傳統對雕塑「視覺性」與「材料性」的理解，延伸至「聲音」的聽覺領域。觀眾對我作品的接收，是從聲音開始，進而延展到觸覺與視覺層次，這種順序反轉了我們習以為常的雕塑觀看方式。透過聲音完整「雕塑的時間性」，回應我自身的勞動狀態。因此，我選擇將聲音保留在作品的成品之中，使觀者在觀看時，透過聲音能夠感受到作品中所凝結的勞動痕跡與時間的積累。
1996- 出生於馬來西亞吉隆坡
個展
2020- 《石。馬達000 -楊健生個展》，金車藝文中心，臺北 市，臺灣
2018- (A Decadent Life) ，永福5號 ，新北市，臺灣
2017- (Carpe Diem) ，南北畫廊，臺北市，臺灣
聯展
2026- 《倒風內山：文明發酵術》， 水色藝術工坊，臺南，臺灣
2024- 《第25小時》基隆美術館，基隆市，臺灣
2024- 《明日再生：永續．環境．想像》新竹鐵道藝術村，新竹市，臺灣
2023- 《內/外之間》 一 雕塑工作坊成果展，北藝大南北畫廊，臺北市，臺灣
2020- 《田田六人聯展》“2020年國立臺北藝術大學美術系畢業展校外展區，空軍三重一村，新北市，臺灣
2019- 《第二屆麗寶當代雕塑》，北藝大地下美術館，臺北市，臺灣
2019- BMS YOUNG CONTEMPORARIES OPEN+LAB, National Art Gallery BMS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2019- 美術創作者卓越獎-《看見城市空間》 國立關渡美術館 ，臺北 市，臺灣
得獎
2025- 2026 臺南新藝獎《倒風內山：文明發酵術》
2024-台中市第29屆大墩美展
2024- 2025年洄瀾美展-優選
2024-第六屆麗寶當代雕塑-首獎
2019-第二屆麗寶當代雕塑-優賞
2019- 美術創作者卓越獎-『看見』城市空間 國立關渡美術館