Charwei Tsai was born in Taiwan (1980) and presently lives and works in Taipei and Paris. Tsai graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Industrial Design and Art & Architectural History (2002) and completed the postgraduate research program at L'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2010). She has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Bogota and her projects have been included in various international exhibitions, including J'en Rêve at Fondation Cartier, Paris, France (2005), the inaugural Singapore Biennale (2006), Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves at ZKM Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2007), Traces du Sacré at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008), the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial (2009), and Taiwan Calling at Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2010). Tsai will also be participating in the upcoming Yokohama Triennale and Rhurtriennale (both in 2011). In addition to her art practice, Tsai publishes, designs and edits Lovely Daze, a curatorial journal published twice a year. Tsai utilizes a variety of media in a politically engaged, performative practice. At once highly personal yet general in concern, Tsai grounds her self and art practice in a sense of (national / Taiwanese) identity and the consequent implications. Geographical, social and spiritual concerns inform a body of work directed towards activating participation outside the confines of complacent contemplation. by Jeffrey Ian Rosen