大河美术 River Art Gallery

大河美术1998年成立于台湾台中。创办人洪瑞镒先生对雕塑艺术有著相当浓厚的兴趣，在初期发掘了台湾知名雕塑家李真和洪易，并持续与台湾艺术家合作了二十多年。2021年，在二代接班人洪曼媛的掌舵下，将位于台中市中心一挑高四层楼、占坪1600平方公尺的崭新空间，作为扩展其国际艺术家阵容的计划基地。

为深化与国际的连结，大河美术率先加入了如加拿大籍台裔艺术家李奕諠和美籍台裔艺术家Timothy Bair 等与台湾关系紧密的艺术家。透过和这些出生于 90 年代并且曾在海外生活的艺术家合作，艺廊将在国际舞台上向大众重新介绍更广阔且当代的福尔摩沙文化。

在实行相关计划数年后，现阶段艺廊的国际艺术家阵容稳定成长并满足了其多元的展览需求，同时亦致力于扩大其在国际舞台的影响力，承诺促进学术发展和教育推广。大河美术秉持著与当代顶尖艺术家共同成长茁壮的决心，重新思考展览的形式，并将其作为一至关重要的媒介，以探究本质的视角及多元开放的观点来谱写未来实践计划的新篇章，期许成为兼具深度与广度的国际艺廊品牌。

River Art Gallery was founded in 1998 in Taichung, Taiwan. The gallery’s initial years were known for, the director, Ray Hung’s interest in sculptural art; and in the process, discovering renowned Taiwanese artists, such as Li Chen and Hung Yi. After over two decades of focusing on working with Taiwanese artists domestically, the gallery gradually opened up its program to an international roster in 2021, with the presence of the new director, Ella Hung, the youngest daughter of gallery founder, Ray Hung. Ella Hung’s present-day program resides in a brand new, four-level, 1600 sqft gallery space in the heart of Taichung City.

The gallery made its first steps to broadening its roster with the addition of artists who are somewhat close to home, such as Taiwanese-Canadian artist; Yi-Shuan Lee, and Taiwanese-American artist; Timothy Bair. The decision for working with these 90s born artists who have spent time living outside of their motherland, is a direct way for the gallery to reintroduce a much more expansive, and yet contemporary, idea of what Formosan culture stands for on an international stage.

Now, a few years into Ella Hung’s program at River Art Gallery, along with the much larger premises to accommodate the demands of the wide range of exhibition practices in its steadily growing roster of internationally recognized artists; River Art Gallery strives to take on an even greater presence on the global stage, with a commitment to invigorate academic as well as educational purposes. The gallery’s program is based on a determination to build and grow alongside the top innovative figures of today, in radically rethinking the exhibition as a form and taking it as a critical medium.