LUPA was born in California in 1989. She received her BA degree in fashion design womenswear from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2012.
She is currently based in Taipei, working in areas including painting, illustration, sculpture, fashion design, and music composition. Regardless of the media, her visual language always exudes an air of Eastern mysticism and fantasy literature.
In the construction of magical and surreal sites, she has created her own context of symbols and forms. She transforms life experiences in reality or dreams into scenes and represents them with primitive, sensuous contours to explore the psychological states of the archetypal figure. She has extended these characteristics to her compositions, giving them an arrangement like the proscenium stage to interpret the interaction between the image and the spectator. The diversity of ethnicity and metaphor of fertility could also be found in her visual approach.She explores self, complex, shadow and collective unconscious by visualizing the inner space through art . She chooses to achieve mutual interaction between her audience and the motif through atmosphere-evoking and immersive images to further state an inner, deeper resistance within people in the social context.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 ” EXOTICA ” . ASIA ART CENTER . Taipei
2022 ” THE UNSPOKEN TALES ” . Hiro Hiro Art Space. Taipei
2020 ” HABITAT of ILLUSION ” . LIGHTWELL. Taipei
2020 ” The BLAZE OF FLOWERS ” . MOCA Cube. Taipei
2019 ” RAVEN STRANDS & WHITE DREAMS ” . Galerie Grand Siècle. Taipei
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Chill/chapter．CANS project．Taipei
2024 “Soft Glistening Lights -Crystal Lupa & Monika Marchewka”. Hiro Hiro Art Space. Taipei
2024 TAIPEI DANGDAI. ASIA ART CENTER. Taipei
2024 The Grand Exhibition of New Taipei City Artists. Yingge Ceramics Museum . New Taipei City
2024 ART TAINAN. SOKA ART. Tainan
2023 ” Bloom in Mindflow “. SOKA ART x J-SHAN. Kaoshiung
2023 ART TAIPEI. ASIA ART CENTER. Taipei
2023 ” First Bloom “. TARTCH ART. Taipei
2023 TAIPEI DANGDAI. ASIA ART CENTER. Taipei
2021 ART TAIPEI 2021. ASIA ART CENTER. Taipei
2021 ” Transgression thoughout the Volatile World ” . ASIA ART CENTER. Taipei
2021 ” Tea Gathering in Spring ” . Club Designer / CLUBART . Taipei
2019 ” Waa weiI x LUPA ” . ForgoodCafe. Taipei
2019 ” GRADIENT – 15 Faces of Contemporary Art” . J-SHAN. Kaoshiung
2016 New York Fashion Week. NY
2015 The Exchange of African Tribal Art . 44 Gallery. Taipei
