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The Thing, Empty Gallery, 2019
Three Arguments About the Opium War (2015), Art Basel Hong Kong, 2022
Animal, Ikon Gallery, 2021
De Anima, 2021, two-channel video installation
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De Anima, 2021, two-channel video installation
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EMP, 2020, watercolor on paper
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Nietzsche Reincarnated As A Chinese Woman And Their Shared Lives, 2017, performance
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Opening Closing Forgetting (still), 2018
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Apologies (still), 2012 – ongoing
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Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist (still), 2015
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James T. Hong has been producing thought-provoking and occasionally controversial works for over twenty years.
In 2012, Hong premiered a short doc at IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) and co-curated a section of the Taipei Biennial.
In 2013, he premiered two works at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) and was a guest artist/speaker at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and other international art spaces in Europe and the USA.
In 2014, Hong exhibited a number of works in Hong Kong, Taipei, and San Francisco and at the Hamburg Kunstverein in Germany, the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, and the Mediacity Seoul Biennial in South Korea.
In 2015, his multimedia installation about the Opium Wars was exhibited in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea.
In 2016, Hong premiered a new documentary at the Berlinale, Kiev Biennial, and Image Forum in Japan. Throughout 2016, Hong participated in visual art shows throughout East Asia, and he premiered a lecture/performance installation about Friedrich Nietzsche at the Taipei Biennial.
In 2017, Hong presented films or other works at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, HKW and Württembergischer Kunstverein in Germany, and Asakusa in Tokyo. Hong also inaugurated the 2017 e-flux lecture series in NYC.
In 2018, Hong premiered an abbreviated, installation version of his 2016 Nietzsche work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Singapore, curated the 9th Taiwan Experimental Media Festival in Taipei, and premiered a new documentary about biological warfare at the Busan International Film Festival where it won Best Documentary (Mecenat Award).
In 2019, he staged a solo exhibition The Thing at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong.
In 2020, he participated in the 12th Taipei Biennial, You and I don’t live on the same planet.
In 2021, Hong opened his first solo exhibition in Europe, Animal at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. He was awarded the Grand Prize (Taiwan Competition) at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival for his film Opening Closing Forgetting (2018).
In 2022, his solo exhibition Apologies v2016.2 opened at the Jewish Museum Vienna, and he participated in Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) in Berlin.
Awards & Honors
2021
Grand Prize (Taiwan Competition), Taiwan International Documentary Festival
2018
Art Matters Foundation Grant, NYC
Best Documentary, Mecenat Award from the Busan International Film Festival
2011
Sole Juror of the Opus Bonum Award (for world documentary) at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Grand Prize (Big Nomad) for The Duck of Nature / The Duck of God TRAILER, from Urban Nomad, Taipei, Taiwan
Grant from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, the Netherlands
Impakt Artist in Residence, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2010
MacDowell Colony Residency (Herb Alpert Award Nominee), New Hampshire, USA
2008
Flaherty Film Fellow, “The Age of Migration,” New York, USA
Berliner Künstlerprogramm Award (Berlin Artist Award) from the Deutscher Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD -- German Academic Exchange Service)
2007
Production and travel grants from The Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia, USA/China
Best World Documentary Award (Opus Bonum) for 731: Two Versions of Hell from the International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic
Golden Gate Award nomination from the 2007 San Francisco International Film Festival for Die Entnazifizierung des MH / The Denazification of MH
First Prize in Video Art for Suprematist Kapital from the Sagunt Shortfilm Festival, Spain
Director Citation for 731: Two Versions of Hell from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, USA
2006
Goldies 2006 Award in Film for James T. Hong from the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Film Arts Foundation Grant Program Award, for New History Zero (now Lessons of the Blood)
2005
Featured Artist in Film (James T. Hong) at the 2005 APAture: A Window on the Art of Young Asian Pacific Americans, San Francisco, California, USA
Golden Gate Award Nomination from the 2005 San Francisco International Film Festival for The Form of the Good, USA
2004
Asian Vision Award Nomination at 2004 Taiwan International Documentary Festival for Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms
2000
Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival for Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, USA
The Village Voice, Best Undistributed Film (1996-2000) for Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, USA
Bay Area Now 2 for Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, USA
1999
Film Arts Foundation Grant Program Award, Personal Works, for The Spear of Destiny: A Film for Everyone and No One, San Francisco, USA
Dockers/Khaki’s Independent Vision Grant for the production of a 1 minute promotional film for the Classically Independent Film festival, San Francisco, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2019
The Thing, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong
Biennale
2023
14th Gwangju Biennale (forthcoming)
2020
You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet, Taipei Biennial 2020, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan, 2020
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Co-Inspiration in Catastrophe, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan
5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia
When You Say We Belong To The Light We Belong To The Thunder, Contemporary Art Museum Estonia
Homeland, Ordet, Milano, Italy
2018-2019
Dissolving Margins, LASALLE College of the Arts' Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Singapore
2018
Trace: Wayfinding In Contemporary New Media Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Towards Mysterious Realities, Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2017
Parklife, Chiwen Gallery, Taiwan
The South, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2 oder 3 Tiger, Haus der kulteren der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Kino-Pravda: A Tribute to Prokino, Asakusa, Japan
Tito’s Bunker, Tito’s bunker in Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Towards Mysterious Realities, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan, 2017
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, JT Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2016
Creative Operational Solutions, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Taipei Biennial, Taiwan
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines
2015
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Interrupted Survey: Fractured Modern Mythologies, ACT Center, Gwangju, South Korea
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within, The Cube Project Space, Taiwan
A Hundred Years of Shame – Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
No One is an Island, Taipei Economic and Culture Organization, New York
A Journal of the Plague Year: Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie, and the Hong Kong Story, Kadist, San Francisco
2014
Aesthetic Jam, sidebar to the 2014 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Taipei National University of the Arts
Islands off the Shores of Asia, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
Dead Souls at the Test Drive, Wei-li Yeh studio, Puxin, Taiwan
Welcome to the Artist Home 2012-2014, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Mediacity Seoul, 2014 Pre-Biennale and Biennale, South Korea
A Paradise Built in Hell, Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany
2nd CAFAM Biennale, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
A Journal of the Plague Year: Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie, and the Hong Kong Story, Arko Art Center, South Korea
A Journal of the Plague Year: Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie, and the Hong Kong Story, The Cube, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
A Journal of the Plague Year: Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie, and the Hong Kong Story, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
FAIL!, Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany
2010
Taiwan Calling, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2013
There is Always a Machine Between Us, SF Camerawork, California, USA
Selected Screenings, Retrospectives, and Presentations
2022
James T. Hong Screening and Live Music, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2018
Old Apologies and More Excuses: Some Films by James T. Hong, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (cancelled by Chinese censors)
2017
The New Nomos of the Earth: Two Works on the State in Time, E-flux gallery, New York, New York
How to be a Nationalist, Union Docs, Brooklyn, New York
2015
A Preview of Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist, Kiev Biennial, “The School of Kyiv,” Ukraine
2013
Utopien vermeiden - Festivalkino: Apologies and Other Excuses – Some Works by James T. Hong, Werkleitz, Halle, Germany
The New Era: Films of James T. Hong, San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
2011
USA Film Tour, Various locations in New York and California
2010
Lessons of the Blood, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, US
James T. Hong: Some Films for Everyone and No One, Union Docs, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2009
Directors in Focus: Chen Yin-Ju and James T. Hong, Urban Nomad / Mobile Man, Taipei, Taiwan
2008
The Coldest War: Films by James T. Hong, The Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
Some Films by James T. Hong, Werkleitz, Halle (Saale), Germany
CHEN and HONG, special show at Sponto Gallery, Venice, California
Some Films by James T. Hong, Le Cinéma Oblò, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007
The Films by James T. Hong, The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Films by James T. Hong, Lens Politica, Helsinki, Finland
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018
Taipei Experimental Media Festival, WHITEUMENTA, Venue, Taipei, Taiwan
2012-2013
THE MUSEUM OF THE MONSTER THAT IS HISTORY, Co-curated with Anselm Franke, mini-museum within the 2012 Taipei Biennial, Taiwan
2011
Productionist Metaphysics, 92Y Tribeca, NYC
SELECTED FILM, VIDEO, MIXED-MEDIA, READYMADE PROJECTS
2018
Opening Closing Forgetting, Busan International Film Festival, South Korea (Winner Mecenat Award, Best Documentary)
Nietzsche Reincarnated as a Chinese Woman and their Shared Lives, ICA Singapore
2017
Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist, Union Docs, Brooklyn, New York
A Chinaman’s Chance (Dokdo and Senkaku), 2 oder 3 Tigers, Haus der kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
A Chinaman’s Chance (Dokdo and Senkaku), Towards Mysterious Realities, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
Apologies, E-flux gallery, New York
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen – Forward and Back Again, Tito’s Bunker, Tito’s bunker in Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
End Transmission, China ReMixed, Indiana University
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Asakusa Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), The South, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2016
Nietzsche Reincarnated as a Chinese Woman and their Shared Lives, Taipei Biennial, Taiwan
Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist, Berlin International Film Festival
Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist, Image Forum, throughout Japan
End Transmission, Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest, Hungary
End Transmission, Art Basel Hong Kong screenings
2015
Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist, Kiev Biennial, “The School of Kyiv,” Ukraine and Vienna, Austria
Terra Nullius or: How to be a Nationalist, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Three Arguments about the Opium War, The Cube, Taipei, Taiwan
Three Arguments about the Opium War, ACT Center, Gwangju, South Korea
Three Arguments about the Opium War, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Apologies, Power to the People, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen – Forward and Back Again, Kommunales Kino, LITERATURBÜRO, Freiburg, Germany
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen – Forward and Back Again, Arkipel – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Festival, Indonesia
Suprematist Kapital, Kommunales Kino, LITERATURBÜRO, Freiburg, Germany
Suprematist Kapital, Arkipel – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Festival, Indonesia
2014
A Chinaman’s Chance (Dokdo and Senkaku), Islands off the Shores of Asia, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, 2014
Leslie Thermal Surveillance: Big Heat, The Cube, Taipei, Taiwan
Leslie Thermal Surveillance: Big Heat, Arko Art Center, South Korea
Leslie Thermal Surveillance: Big Heat, Welcome to the Artist Home!, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Germ Warfare Victim’s Peasant Shoes, The Cube, Taipei, Taiwan
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Singapore Art Fair
731: Two Versions of Hell, Mediacity Biennale, Seoul, South Korea
The Form of the Good, Scratch Projection, Cinema Action Christine, Paris
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, A Paradise Built in Hell, Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany
2013
Leslie Thermal Surveillance: Big Heat, Journal of the Plague Year, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Germ Warfare Victim’s Peasant Shoes, The South, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Germ Warfare Victim’s Peasant Shoes, Journal of the Plague Year, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Germ Warfare Victim’s Peasant Shoes, Biennale Online
The Turner Film Diaries, San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
The Turner Film Diaries, One World Romania, International Human Rights Film Festival, Bucharest
The Turner Film Diaries, It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
The Turner Film Diaries, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania
Apologies, Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) Forum Expanded
Apologies, FAIL!, Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
Apologies, San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
Apologies, Werkleitz, Halle, Germany
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen – Forward and Back Again, Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) Forum Expanded
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen – Forward and Back Again, San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen – Forward and Back Again, Werkleitz, Halle, Germany
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Chiwen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, Journal of the Plague Year, Para/Site, Hong Kong
2012
The Turner Film Diaries, Processing Disagreement: Part 2, Otherfilm.org, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Turner Film Diaries, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
The Turner Film Diaries, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Netherlands
Apologies, Taipei Biennial, Taiwan
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen – Forward and Back Again, Chiwen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The Duck of Nature / The Duck of God, Commissioned by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, the Netherlands
End Transmission, In the Wintry Thicket of Metropolitan Civilization, AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy
End Transmission, Arcane of Patterns, Mindpirates Projecktraum, Berlin, Germany
End Transmission, Crossroads 2012, San Francisco, USA
End Transmission, Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois, USA
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois, USA
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Poland, Portugal, and Australia TV
A Portrait of Sino-American Friendship, Entre Deux Tours, Le Cinématographe, Nantes, France
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, Contemp Fallfest, Taipei, Taiwan
2011
The Duck of Nature / The Duck of God TRAILER, Urban Nomad, Taipei, Taiwan
The Duck of Nature / The Duck of God TRAILER, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
The Duck of Nature / The Duck of God TRAILER, Hsinchu Image Museum, Taiwan
The Duck of Nature / The Duck of God TRAILER, Various locations in USA on James T. Hong’s 2011 USA Film Tour
End Transmission, EXiM, Asian Experimental Video Festival Macau
End Transmission, Techno-ecologies: International Festival for New Media Culture Art+Communication, Latvia
End Transmission, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
End Transmission, International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
End Transmission, EXiT, Experimental Film and Video Festival Seoul, South Korea
End Transmission, L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain
End Transmission, European Media Art Festival 2011, Osnabrück, Germany
End Transmission, Signal and Noise Media Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Submission to a Small World aka (Reveries in a Small World), Edition N.1 - Wonderland, GlogauAIR Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Submission to a Small World aka (Reveries in a Small World), Magic for Beginners, Skalitzer 140/ Temporary, Berlin, Germany
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Songs of Experience, Mendel Art Gallery, Canada
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Göteborg International Film Festival (Gothenburg), Sweden
Surveillance of a Camp in Spring, Persistence Resistance - Films from London International Documentary Festival, New Delhi, India
Die Entnazifizierung des MH / The Denazification of MH, 92YTribeca, Productionist Metaphysics, New York, USA
Suprematist Kapital, Strange Screen III, Cyprus
The Form of the Good, Light Cone Preview Show, Cinema Action Christine, Paris
2010
Submission to a Small World aka (Reveries in a Small World), EX!T, Experimental Media Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Submission to a Small World aka (Reveries in a Small World), Moving Frames Festival, Mytilene Digital Art Festival, Greece
Submission to a Small World aka (Reveries in a Small World), tamtamArt, “Tangible Intangible,” Berlin, Germany
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Globians Documentary Festival, Berlin, Germany
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco and The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA
Surveillance of a Camp in Spring, Cinema by the Bay, San Francisco Film Society, USA
Surveillance of a Camp in Spring, London International Documentary Festival, UK
Führerbunker: Touristen, Neo-Nazis, und andere – 20 April 2009, Kaohsiung Film Archive, Taiwan
A Portrait of Sino-American Friendship, Taiwan Calling—The Phantom of Liberty, Mucsarnok Museum, Hungary
Die Entnazifizierung des MH / The Denazification of MH, Dokukino, Zagreb, Croatia
Suprematist Kapital, Off Underground Awards, Il Festival del Cinema Indipendente, Torino, Italy
Total Mobilization, Animated Images, Goethe-Institut Taipei & Digital Art Center, curated by Anita Beckers, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Test Preview, Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie, Berlin, Germany
Surveillance of a Camp in Spring, Other Cinema, San Francisco, California, USA
Führerbunker: Touristen, Neo-Nazis, und andere – 20 April 2009, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Dogs of Straw, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Suprematist Kapital, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, USA
2008
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Sneak Preview, Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate College, New York, USA
Lessons of the Blood (歷史血痕), Sneak Preview, Other Cinema, San Francisco, California, USA
Dogs of Straw, Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
A Portrait of Sino-American Friendship, International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic
A Portrait of Sino-American Friendship, Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
This Shall Be A Sign, MidEastCut, International Festival for Alternative Film and Video, Copenhagen, Denmark
This Shall Be A Sign, Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate College, New York, USA
731: Two Versions of Hell, Festival Signes de Niut, Paris, France
731: Two Versions of Hell, Le Cinéma Oblò, Lausanne, Switzerland
Die Entnazifizierung des MH / The Denazification of MH, Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme (Museum of Art and History of Judaism), Paris, France
Suprematist Kapital, Festival Internacional Cineposible de Extremadura, Spain
The Form of the Good, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, USA
The Form of the Good, Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate College, New York, USA
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2007
There is Always a Machine Between Us, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
A Portrait of Sino-American Friendship, Other Cinema, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA., USA
This Shall Be A Sign, Kino21 and The Arab Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
Victims of Japanese Biological Warfare Relaxing, DAS PREKARIUM, Arttransponder, Berlin, Germany
The Truth About All Movies, International Film Festival Rotterdam – One Take Competition, the Netherlands
The Truth About All Movies, Festival Pocket Films, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
731: Two Versions of Hell, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Canada
731: Two Versions of Hell, Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
Die Entnazifizierung des MH / The Denazification of MH, L'Alternativa 2007 14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain
Die Entnazifizierung des MH / The Denazification of MH, Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
Total Mobilization, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA
2006
Total Mobilization, Light Co0ne Preview Show, Au Center Pompidou, Paris, France
Total Mobilization, NewYorkRioTokio Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Form of the Good, Impakt Festival, Panorama Program, Utrecht, the Netherlands
The Form of the Good, Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, Eugene, USA
2005
Total Mobilization, Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Total Mobilization, Pirated: a post-Asian Perspective, SomArts, San Francisco, California, USA
The Form of the Good, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival International Digital Shorts, Taipei, Taiwan
The Form of the Good, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
The Form of the Good, Scanners: New York Video Festival, New York, USA
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, SomArts, Apature, San Francisco, USA
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, Boston Asian American Film Festival, USA
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, an Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, USA
Spear of Destiny Trailer: War Version, SomArts, Apature, San Francisco, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, SomArts, Apature, San Francisco, USA
Condor: A Film from California, Whose/Who’s California? Newtown, Pasadena, California, USA
2004
Immigration, Southern Exposure Gallery, EPIC, San Francisco, California, USA
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, Other Cinema, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, USA
Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms, Film Arts Festival, San Francisco, USA
2003
The Sickness Unto Death: A Film for Children Preview, The Little Roxie Theatre, San Francisco, USA
SOD Preview 2: War Version -- Installation, StartSoma Gallery, San Francisco, USA
The Spear of Destiny: A Film for Everyone and No One, The Little Roxie Theatre, San Francisco, USA
Spear of Destiny Trailer: War Version, VideoEX International Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
Spear of Destiny Trailer: War Version, Other Cinema, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, USA
Spear of Destiny Trailer: War Version, San Francisco Cinematheque, California, USA
Decade Null, San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
Condor: A Film from California, San Francisco Cinematheque, California, USA
2002
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, VideoEX International Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, The Best of Other Cinema Tour, throughout the USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Outis – LA menta del Viaggiatore, Milan, Italy
2001
Exhibition: History, Defacto Films, The Soup Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Means of Production: California Underground Film Tour, throughout Europe
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, USA
Condor: A Film from California, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, USA
2000
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA
1999
Decade Null, The Dockers Khaki’s Classically Independent Film Festival at the Castro Theater, San Francisco, California, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, Minnesota, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, Through the Lens, WYBE TV35, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is, 17th San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, California, USA
Condor: A Film from California, Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley, California, USA
Condor: A Film from California, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1998
Condor: A Film from California, Film Arts Festival, San Francisco and Berkeley, California, USA
Condor: A Film from California, University of California at Berkeley, USA
1996
The Idiot, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
1995
The Roosen Radiometer, industrial for Roosen Radiometry, San Diego, USA
1994
The Thing Which Thinks, Gamma-51, New York, USA
1993
Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten, the Bay Area Film and Video Festival, UC Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA, 2nd Prize for Experimental Video