Yeachin Tsai (aka Tsai Yea-Chin 蔡雅琴) received her BFA from National Taiwan Normal University and her MFA from Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is known for her rhythmic forms and decisive brushstrokes, which reflect a visual language shaped by Chinese calligraphy, the expansive sense of time and space inherent in traditional Chinese art and philosophy, and the expressive possibilities of modern Western abstraction.
Working with layered ink, acrylic, and oil on paper, canvas, wood, and fabric, Yeachin creates compositions that explore movement, energy, and transformation. Her paintings generate a dynamic tension between intimate scale and expansive internal energy. Her large-scale works employ sweeping brushwork that draws viewers into fields of vibrant color, movement, and expressive mark-making. Her subjects encompass both the visible—objects, patterns, and symbols—and the unseen—force, emotion, and momentum.
Now based in Troy, New York, Yeachin’s artworks have been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited at The Painting Center in Manhattan; Pierogi Gallery Flat File and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn; International Print Center New York (IPCNY) in Chelsea, New York City; the New York State Museum in Albany; The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls; Courthouse Gallery at Lake George Arts in New York; Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio; National Taiwan University Tehchun Gallery in Taipei; the Museum of National Taipei University of Education in Taipei; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan; and Sky Gallery in Osaka, Japan.
Yeachin’s paintings Golden Wave and Majestic Ocean Waves were selected by John Murray Publications in London as the cover and endpaper artwork for Sir David Attenborough’s landmark book Ocean (2025 hardcover and audiobook; 2026 paperback). She received the Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award twice while pursuing her MFA at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her work has been featured and reviewed in 518 Profiles Magazine, Times Union, Shambhala Times, Buddhadharma Journal, and DEX Lifestyle Magazine (Germany), and she was featured on WMHT’s “AHA!” television program, A House for Arts, New York.
