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 certainty rooted in Chinese calligraphy and the expansive sense of time and space found in traditional Chinese painting and philosophy.
She paints with layered ink, acrylic, and oil on paper, canvas, wood, and fabric. Yeachin generates tension through the intimate scale of her smaller paintings and their colossal internal energy. Her large-scale works employ sweeping brushwork to draw viewers in, then erupt joyously with energetic color and invigorating mark-making. Her subjects span 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 both solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited at The Painting Center in Manhattan; Pierogi Gallery Flat File, Brooklyn; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn; International Print Center New York (IPCNY), Chelsea, NYC; the New York State Museum in Albany; the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls; Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts, New York; Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio; National Taiwan University Tehchun Gallery, Taipei; the Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; and Sky Gallery in Osaka, Japan. Her original artworks and designs are held in private and corporate collections worldwide, including the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Her paintings Golden Wave and Majestic Ocean Waves were selected by John Murray Publications, London, UK, as the cover and endpaper art for Sir David Attenborough’s landmark book Ocean (2025 hardcover and audiobook; 2026 paperback). She received the Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award twice while studying in the MFA program at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Yeachin has received reviews and mentions in 518 Profiles Magazine, Times Union, Shambhala Times, Buddhadharma Journal, and DEX Lifestyle Magazine (Germany), and was featured in the WMHT “AHA!” TV program, A House for Arts, NY.
