Cheng-Hsu Chung
Cheng-Hsu Chung is a Taiwanese animation artist and director currently based in Berlin, Germany. Chung’s artistic practise focuses on using surreal images and character performances in animation to articulate the changing nature of emotion, modern love relationships and the experiences queer bodies encounter in today’s queer culture. Chung’s films have been screened in international film festivals including International Animation Festival, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, London International Animation Festival, GLAS Animation Festival, among others. His awards include Taiwan Grand Prize at Kaohsiung Film Festival, Grand Prize at Urban Nomad Film Festival, Bronze at Berlin Music Video Awards 2020, and more. His film ‘Adorable’ was also nominated for Best Animated Short Film in Golden Horse Award and Taipei Film Festival. Apart from film festivals, Chung’s work has been featured on TV and in exhibitions around the world, including Channel 4, Adult Swim, WRO Media Art Biennale, Taipei Artist Village <Into>, Taipei Digital Art Center <Expanded Experimental Animation Festival IV>, among others.
As well as his personal work, Cheng also works on creative commissions. Through working artistically and commercially, Cheng has merged both worlds and created his playful and surreal visual style. As an animation artist and illustrator, his work adds artistry and originality to commercial projects while maintaining a signature style throughout. His selected clients include Spotify, Adidas, Nike, Adult Swim, BBC, Warp Records, BAYER, Berliner Zeitung, among others.
Education
2018 MA Animation, Royal College of Art
2016 BFA Animation, Taipei National University of the Arts
Awards and Scholarship
2024 Ciclic Prize, Mifa Pitches, Annecy International Animation Festival, France
2024 Member of European Film Academy
2024 Berlinale Talents, Berlin, Germany
2023 Yarnspinnner Award, ANIMIST TALLINN, Estonia
2022 NEUSTART Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2020 Bronze in Animation, Berlin Music Video Awards, Germany
2019 Nominee for Best Animation Short Film, Golden Horse Award, Taiwan
2019 Nominee for Best Animation Film, Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan
2019 Taiwan Grand Prize, Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan
2019 Student Prize, Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taiwan
2019 Throbbing Joy Award, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, USA
2018 Grand Prize, Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taiwan
2016 Jury Prize, Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan
2016 Jury Prize, Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taiwan
2016 Jury Prize, CutOut International Animation Festival, Mexico
2015 First Prize, On-Site Festival, Taiwan
Artist Talk
2023 Animation Fundamentals, Parsons School of Design
2021 Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts
2020 Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts
Jury
2023 Fest Anča International Animation Festival
2022 CINANIMA International Animated Film Festival
2021 Lago Film Fest
Film Festival
2024 Bonanza Fest Köln
2024 FANTOCHE International Animation Film Festival
2024 ifva Festival
2024 Kaboom Animation Festival
2024 Fest Anča International Animation Festival
2023 Sundance Film Festival: Asia
2023 CINANIMA International Animated Film Festival
2023 Slovak Queer Film Festival
2023 ANIMEST Animest Bucharest International Animation Film Festival
2023 Viborg Animation Festival
2023 ANIMAGE Festival
2023 BITBANG International Animation, Videogames and Digital Art Festival
2023 Seoul Indie-Anifest
2023 SUPERTOON International Animation And Comics Festival
2023 Lago Film Fest
2023 International Animation Festival - ANIMIST TALLINN
2023 Fest Anča International Animation Festival
2023 Annecy International Animated Film Festival
2023 Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Films
2023 Animatricks International Animation Festival
2023 Kaboom Animation Festival
2022 CINANIMA International Animated Film Festival
2022 Hiroshima Animation Season
2022 Vancouver Queer Film Festival
2022 International Animated Film Festival Animocje
2022 Animac Festival
2022 Pictoplasma Festival
2021 Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival
2021 Fest Anča International Animation Festival
2020 Seoul Int'l PRIDE Film Festival
2020 London Queer East Film Festival
2020 Festival of Animated Shortfilms Düsseldorf
2020 Busan International Short Film Festival
2020 Images Festival
2020 The Palace International Film Festival
2019 Golden Horse Film Festival
2019 Taipei Film Festival
2019 Kaohsiung Film Festival
2019 Guanajuato International Film Festival
2019 Kuandu International Animation Festival
2019 Taichung International Animation Festival
2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival
2019 QFest International LGBTQ+ Film Festival
2019 Kaboom Animation Festival,
2019 Berlin Porn Film Festival
2019 Kyiv International Short Film Festival
2019 Animest International Animation Film Festival
2019 Hacker Porn Film Festival
2019 Lovers Film Festival
2019 LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival
2019 GLAS Animation Festival
2019 Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Films
2018 Annecy International Animated Film Festival
2018 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
2018 Anilogue International Animation Festival
2018 Animateka International Animated Film Festival
2018 London International Animation Festival,
2019 New British Film Festival
2018 Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Films
2018 China Independent Animation Film Forum, Beijing
2018 Fest Anča International Animation Festival
2018 Milano Film Festival
2018 Bilbao International Animation Community Festival - ANIMAKOM FEST
2018 Urban Nomad Film Festival
2017 Fest Anča International Animation Festival
2017 Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Films
2016 Taichung International Animation Festival, Taichung
2016 CutOut International Animation Festival, Querétaro
2016 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, New Chitose
2016 Urban Nomad Film Festival
Solo Exhibition
2015 The Peeping Toms, Speedy Grandchild Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Group Exhibition
2022 TAV Art Project Trilogy: PROCESS, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Corona Culture, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany
2019 Expanded Experimental Animation Festival IV, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Super Erotic, 8.Salon, Hamburg, Germany
2018 QUEER ART(ist) NOW, Rose Lipman Building, London, UK
2018 INTO, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 The New Darkroom, RCA Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2017 Orbits, Berlin Blue Art, Berlin, Germany
2017 Becoming, RCA Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2017 WRO Media Art Biennale, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
2017 The New Darkroom, RCA Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2016 Expanded Experimental Animation Festival III ─ Endocrine, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 The End of 2nd Floor, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 On-Site, Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
Residency
2016 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Tentacles, Bangkok, Thailand
Licence
2018, Channel 4, UK
2018, Dazed Media, UK
Selected Press
DAZED
It's Nice That
It's Nice That
Promonews
Ransom Note
Stash
Selected Client
Adult Swim
Warp Records
Adidas
BBC
Bayer AG
Taipei Art Festival
John Grant
!!! Chk Chk Chk
鍾承旭
鍾承旭，1994年生，臺灣高雄人。畢業於國立臺北藝術大學動畫學系，以及英國皇家藝術學院動畫研究所；他目前以動畫藝術家及導演的身份工作與生活在柏林。
鍾承旭的作品創作媒材以動畫為主；創作脈絡則聚焦於描寫人際情緒的轉變，當代的戀愛感情關係與同志身份認同及同志文化的探索。以這些題材為依據，他在畫面上以超現實的事件與荒誕的角色行為作為視覺呈現的要素。
鍾承旭的作品曾入選多項國際影展，包括渥太華國際動畫影展，安錫國際動畫影展，倫敦國際動畫影展，關渡國際動畫影展等等。他也曾獲得高雄電影節台灣首獎，台中國際動畫影展評審團獎，城市遊牧影展首獎，柏林音樂錄影帶大獎的動畫銅獎等。其作品<可愛>也獲得了金馬獎與台北電影節的最佳動畫短片提名。除了在影展獲得肯定外，鍾承旭的作品也在國際媒體及聯展露出，包括英國Channel 4電視台，美國Adult Swim電視台，WRO波蘭媒體藝術雙年展，臺北國際藝術村<透明象限>，臺北數位藝術中心<超越實驗4>，也曾被國際媒體 Dazed Media報導。此外，鍾承旭也曾擔任美國加州藝術學院的參訪藝術家。
在創作個人作品以外，鍾承旭也擅長製作音樂錄影帶，廣告與插畫等商業作品。在藝術性與商業性都融入個人想法與脈絡後，他發展出了一套活潑與超現實的視覺風格，並以此強烈個人風格的動畫為商業作品添加獨創性與藝術性。他的客戶包括美國卡通電視台Adult Swim，英國電視台BBC，英國唱片廠牌Warp Records，Adidas愛迪達，等知名流行文化與媒體公司。
學歷
2018 英國皇家藝術學院，動畫研究所，碩士
2016 國立臺北藝術大學，動畫學系，學士
駐村
2016 臺北國際藝術村，臺北，臺灣
2015 Tentacles藝術機構，曼谷，泰國
獲獎
2020 柏林音樂錄影帶大獎，動畫銅獎
2019 金馬獎，最佳動畫短片提名
2019 臺北電影節，最佳動畫片提名
2019 高雄電影節，臺灣大獎
2019 關渡國際動畫節，臺灣學生獎
2019 密爾沃基地下影展，Throbbing Joy 大獎
2018 城市遊牧影展，首獎
2016 臺中國際動畫影展，評審團獎
2016 城市遊牧影展，評審團獎
2016 CutOut國際動畫影展，評審團獎
2015 混種藝術季，視覺混種徵件展，首獎
藝術家座談
2023 動畫系，帕森斯設計學院
2021 實驗動畫研究所，加州藝術學院
2020 實驗動畫學系，加州藝術學院
評審
2023 斯洛伐克Fest Anča國際動畫影展
2022 CINANIMA 國際動畫影展
2021 Lago 影展
影展
2023 安錫國際動畫影展
2023 Anifilm 國際動畫影展
2023 Animatricks 國際動畫影展
2023 Kaboom 動畫影展
2022 CINANIMA 國際動畫影展
2022 廣島動畫節
2022 溫哥華酷兒影展
2022 Animocje 國際動畫影展
2022 Animac 動畫節
2022 Pictoplasma 動畫節
2021 巴賽隆納短片與動畫影展
2021 斯洛伐克Fest Anča國際動畫影展
2020 首爾國際酷兒影展
2020 倫敦東亞酷兒影展
2020 杜賽道夫動畫短片影展
2020 釜山國際短片影展
2020 Images 影展
2020 The Palace 國際影展
2019 金馬影展
2019 臺北電影節
2019 高雄電影節
2019 瓜納華托國際電影節
2019 關渡國際動畫節
2019 臺中國際動畫節
2019 渥太華國際動畫節
2019 QFest 國際酷兒影展
2019 Kaboom 動畫影展
2019 柏林色情影展
2019 基輔國際短片影展
2019 Animest國際動畫影展
2019 Hacker 色情影展
2019 Lovers 影展
2019 酷兒短片影展
2019 GLAS 動畫影展
2019 Anifilm 國際動畫影展
2018 安錫國際動畫影展
2018 Eyeworks 實驗動畫影展
2018 Anilogue 國際動畫影展
2018 Animateka 國際動畫影展
2018 倫敦國際動畫影展
2018 新英國影展
2018 Anifilm 國際動畫影展,
2018 中國獨立動畫論壇
2018 斯洛伐克Fest Anča國際動畫影展
2018 米蘭影展
2018 Bilbao 國際動畫影展
2018 城市遊牧影展
2017 斯洛伐克Fest Anča國際動畫影展
2017 Anifilm 國際動畫影展
2016 臺中國際動畫節
2016 CutOut 國際動畫節
2016 新千歲國際動畫節
2016 城市遊牧影展
個展
2015 The Peeping Toms，Speedy Grandchild藝廊，曼谷，泰國
聯展
2012 是過去式是現在式也是未來式，臺北國際藝術村，臺北，臺灣
2021 Corona Culture，Alte Münze，柏林，德國
2019 超越實驗IV，臺北數位藝術中心，臺北，臺灣
2019 Super Erotic，8.Salon, 漢堡，德國
2018 QUEER ART(ist) NOW，Rose Lipman Building, 倫敦，英國
2018 透明象限，台北國際藝術村，臺北，臺灣
2018 The New Darkroom，戴森藝廊，倫敦， 英國
2017 Orbits，BBA藝廊，柏林, 德國
2017 Becoming，戴森藝廊，倫敦， 英國
2017 WRO波蘭媒體藝術雙年展，WRO 藝術中心，弗羅茨瓦夫，波蘭
2017 The New Darkroom，RCA Dyson 藝廊，倫敦， 英國
2016 超越實驗III：內分泌影展，臺北當代藝術館，臺北，臺灣
2016 二樓走廊的盡頭，臺北國際藝術村，臺北，臺灣
2015 混種藝術季視覺混種徵件展，中山創意基地，臺北，臺灣
電視授權
2018 英國Channel 4
2018 Dazed 媒體
客戶
Adult Swim
Warp Records
Adidas
BBC
拜耳集團
臺北藝術節
John Grant
!!! Chk Chk Chk
報導