Charlene Shih

Charlene Shih

  • Shop: Landscape and Memory
  • Inheritance
  • News / Exhibition
  • Film / Mixed Media
    • Mixed Media/Installation
      • Sugar Baby Project
      • 40
      • 40/Metamorphosis
      • Treasure Island
      • Intervention
      • Secret Garden (with video clips)
      • 12 steps to success for Artists in Los Angeles (with video clips)
      • Take me home
      • Worship
      • Self Portrait Series
        • Happiness
        • Happiness (Sculpture)
        • Subliminal sequenced paintings
        • Bitch
        • Peeping girl
        • Self Portrait
    • Film
      • Women
      • Papa Blue
      • Women Make Waves
      • River of Art
      • Taiwan: Island of Fish
      • Chineseness: Zhang Huan
      • Sailors in the Wheatfield
      • China's Biggest Gala
      • Taiwan's Medical Miracle
      • Cradle of Mandopop
      • Inside: Taipei Deaflympics
      • Treasure Island
      • Spirit Talks
      • Hip Hop Nation
      • Super Pigs
  • Paintings / Works on paper
    • Eastern world
    • Western world
      • Portraits of our time
      • From head to toe
    • Animal Kingdom
    • Works on paper
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  • Publication/Press
  • Contact / Newsletter
​In the Inheritance series—an ongoing, evolving body of work—I explore the layered, often fragmented nature of memory and cultural lineage, while questioning what—and who—is deemed important in history. The project serves as an alternative, living archive, blending my own personal photographs with found, unknown artworks and references to artists from Taiwan who have shaped my creative consciousness. By embedding these diverse visual histories into the tactile, layered medium of encaustic monotypes and ink wash, I challenge the boundaries of formal historical narratives. Elevating anonymous fragments alongside personal and cultural markers, this continuous synthesis of intimacy and collective memory asks what we choose to carry forward, transforming inherited remnants into a new, unified landscape of belonging.


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