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