• Paul Gong

    Assistant Professor

    Speculative Designer | Artist | Curator

    Chang GungUniversity Department Of Industrial Design

    Royal College of Art – Design Interactions MA


    Paul Gong (b. 1988, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) is a speculative designer, artist, curator, and one of the pioneers of speculative design in Taiwan. He is currently an Assistant Professor Rank Specialist of the Department of Industrial Design at Shih Chien University in Taipei. He holds a BA in Industrial Design from Chang Gung University in Taipei, and an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London. He sees design as a research method and thinking tool to explore different possibilities, to criticise the past and the present, and to speculate the future. Design should stimulate debate, imagination, and reflection for people. It is also interesting for him to explore the aesthetics of the representation for possible futures. He attempts to use installation, text and image, conceptual objects, performance, and exhibition to create a kind of scenario for people to imagine and explore.

     

    He was awarded the Next Art Tainan Awards in 2018, the Core77 Design Awards in 2020, and the Golden Pin Design Award in 2022. His work has been exhibited at MAS, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Taiwan Design Museum, Yiri Arts, Taipei Digital Art Center, and Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab in Taipei, USC 5D Institute in Los Angeles, Future Gallery in Palo Alto, Asian Culture Center in Gwangju, London, and Guangzhou. His works have also been featured in international and Taiwan media ranging from Dezeen, Designboom, Core77, MOLD, Frame Magazine, La Vie Magazine, design Magazine, and Business Next.

     

     

    Awards:

     

    2022, Golden Pin Award, Integration Design

    2022, Technology and Art Experimental Innovation and Mentoring Promotion Program, Select

    2019, Asia Culture Center, Artist-in-Residence

    2020, The Ministry of Culture Supports Youth Art Development Subsidy Program, Select

    2020, Core77 Design Awards, Speculative Design Award

    2018, Next Art Tainan Awards

     

    Curating Exhibitions:

     

    2022, WeWe Futures:2040 Plurality, Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei

    2022, Twisting the Everyday, akaSwap, online

    2021, Provocative Futures II: Speculation, Medical Science, Human Body and Gender, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei

    2020, Provocative Futures: Speculation, human body, and medical science Paul Gong & Kuang-Yi Ku Double Solo Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung

    2019, Tea Future Lab, Tea 3.1415, Creative Expo Taiwan, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei

    2019, Future Cross Boundaries, Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei

    2018, 2018 Taiwan Design Expo – Future Beyond Imagination, Taichung Cultural and Creative Industries Park, Taichung

    2017, Weaving The Chapters Between Fantasy and Reality, APUJAN, Shin Kong Place, Chongqing

    2017, Atypical Human – Interdisciplinary Art Exhibition, Yiri Arts, Taipei

     

    Solo Exhibition:

     

    2020, Provocative Futures: Speculation, human body, and medical science Paul Gong & Kuang-Yi Ku Double Solo Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung

     

    Group Exhibitions:

     

    2022, Golden Pin Design Award 2022 exhibition “THUMB-STOPPING CREATIVE”, Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei

    2022, 2022 Art Taipei, CryptoArt Zone – Gaze × Logic × Poetics, Taipei

    2022, WeWe Futures:2040 Plurality, Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei

    2022, Apocalypse Eve, Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival, Taoyuan

    2022, Future Food, Céline Park Gallery, Seoul

    2021, Beneath the Surface, 2021 Taiwan Design Expo “City as Home” , Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi

    2021, Provocative Futures II: Speculation, Medical Science, Human Body and Gender, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei

    2021, Vienna Design Week 2021, Urban Food & Design, Vienna

    2021, GOD-MEN EPISODE I, Chi-Wen Gallery, Online

    2020, LAB KILL LAB, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei

    2020, CHRONIQUES – Biennale of Digital Imagination, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Avignon

    2020, new now – critical, speculative and fictional, sunsun-museum, Taipei

    2020, Genetic (R)evolution: BioArt Exhibition, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei

    2020, Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial, VT Artsalon, Taipei

    2019, City Flip-Flop, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei

    2019, Edible Futures, Interior Design Show, Vancouver

    2019, Being, and Organs, RAW Moves, Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore

    2019, ACT Festival 2019 – FoodHack, Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea

    2019, Edible Futures, Dutch Institute of Food & Design, Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, Ottawa

    2019, Future Cross Boundaries, Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei

    2018, FOOD REVOLUTION 5.0, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur

    2018, 2018 Taiwan Design Expo – Future Beyond Imagination, Taichung Cultural and Creative Industries Park, Taichung

    2018, FOOD REVOLUTION 5.0 – Design for tomorrow’s society, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin

    2018, AIR MAX DAY 2018 Turning Imagination Into Reality, Nike, Nike Kicks Lounge, Taipei

    2018, The Metamorphosis, Absolute Art Space, Tainan

    2017, Meta- and Speculation, Digital Art Center Taipei, Taipei

    2017, The Embassy of Food, Agri meets Design, Dutch Design Week 2017, Eindhoven

    2017, Parklife, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei

    2017, Weaving The Chapters Between Fantasy and Reality, APUJAN, Shin Kong Place, Chongqing

    2017, Atypical Human – Interdisciplinary Art Exhibition, Yiri Arts, Taipei

    2017, FOOD REVOLUTION 5.0 – Design for tomorrow’s society, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Hamburg

     

    Course

    · First Year > Design Drawing、Introduction to Design

    · Junior Year > History of Industrial Design

    · Senior Year > Integrated Product Design

    · Second Year of Graduate > Independent Study


    Email   paulgong@g2.usc.edu.tw

    flickr youtube facebook