Education:
1995 Brooklyn College of the City University of New York – Master of Fine Arts, under Lennart Anderson
1987 National Taiwan Normal University – Bachelor of Fine Arts
2001~05 Art Student League of New York – Printmaking
1979~84 Studio Study with master painters in Taiwan: Shih-Chiao Lee, Read Lee, Ping-Hsing Ku (lineage of master Huang Junbi);
1990~93 Acquainted with renowned master painters Yu Chengyao, Chang Kuang-Pin
Solo Exhibitions:
10/2021 “Nature Songs”, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, New York
08/2020 “Small but Big”, Smallbany Gallery, Albany, New York
02/2019 “Winter Joy”, Pause Gallery, Troy, New York
05/2015 “Inner Light”, Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park, New York
02/2008 “Ordinary Magic”, 70 Beekman Fine Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York
12/2007 “Landscape and Nature”, Kismet Gallery, Troy, New York
02/2004 “Winter Celebration – dancing with color and form”, Chashama Gallery, NYC
09/2000 “The Labyrinth of Memory”, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions:
05/2024 “Threads – Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Exhibition”, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
04/2024 “UN-ARCHIVE”, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
01/2024 “CRITICAL FORUM ARTIST EXHIBITION 2024”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
11/2023 “Visual Poetry: New Vistas”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
02/2023 “Critical Forum Artists”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
10/2022 “Two-Person Show” (concurrently with Jeff Wigman), Second Street Gallery, Troy, NY
09/2022 “ART Weekly Exhibit“, NCPR collaboration with DAC, Malone, NY
01/2022 “Re:Emergence”, Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson, NY
12/2021 “Upstate Artists”, The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
09/2021 “Rhythm and Flow”, Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY
04/2021 “More Than A Sketchbook: The Diary of an Artists”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
10/2020 “Inner Spaces”, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
12/2019 “Blue”, Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson, NY
12/2019 “Upstate Artists”, The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
12/2019 “All is Safely Gathered In”, Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
11/2019 “Small Works”, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
10/2019 “Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region” Exhibition, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
05/2019 “The Power of Color in Art”, Art Associates Gallery, Albany, NY
03/2019 “The Unusuals”, Invitational, The Painting Center, Chelsea, NYC
11/2018 “Printmakers Open Portfolio” (part of the Screenprint Biennial 2018), The Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
08/2018 “Creations: Connections and Collections”, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
04/2018 “Article 13”, The LAB, Collar Works, Troy, NY
02/2018 “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”, Four Person Show, Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY
10/2017 “AQUACHROME”, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
05/2017 “Inaugural Show”, Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY
04/2016 “Paperback”, Albany Barn, Stage 1 Gallery, Albany, NY
01/2016 “Great Places and Spaces”, New York State Museum, with Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
01/2016 “Generations X: Razzle Dazzle”, A. I. R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
10/2015 Yeachin Tsai Recent Work (concurrently with Maggie Mailer), McDaris Fine Art, Hudson, NY
11/2014 “Response to Nature”, Three Person Show, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
04/2014 “Neoteric Abstract”, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
12/2013 9th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
01/2012 Group Show, Garden Cafe Gallery, Londonderry, Vermont
07/2011 Artists Show, De Chun Gallery, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
06/2010 “Fence Show”, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
12/2009 “Family Album”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
02/2007 “Red”, UAG Gallery (Upstate Artists Guild), Albany, NY
10/2006 “Face and Facades”, UAG Gallery (Upstate Artists Guild), Albany, NY
02/2006 “Made in Brooklyn”, NYMEX, Manhattan, Seven person show, NYC
03/2005 “8th International Open” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL
10/2004 The Affordable Art Fair, London, Autumn Collection, UK
09/2004 Printmakers from the Art Student League of New York, the Lobby Gallery of Durst Organization, NYC
09/2004 “Still” (Still Life), 7 Person Show, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NYC
07/2004 “Talking Hands”, Asian American Women Artists Alliance annual show, A. I. R. Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
06/2004 “The Print Show”, Gallery 402, Organization of Independent Artists, Tribeca, NYC
06/2004 “New Prints 2004/ Summer”, International Print Center New York, IPCNY Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
05/2003 “New Prints 2003/ Spring”, International Print Center New York. Curator: Barry Walker, IPCNY Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
05/2004 International Art Show, Gallery 47, Central London, UK
05/2004 International Art Show, Lennox Gallery, Central London, UK
05/2004 Pier Show 12, Red Hook Pier, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition, NYC
04/2004 “Made In Brooklyn”, New York Law School Art Gallery, NYC
03/2004 “Generations-04”, A. I. R. Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
11/2003 “AAWAA in Brooklyn”, Asian American Women Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, NYC
10/2003 The Affordable Art Fair, London, Autumn Collection, UK
09/2003 Old Fire Station Contemporary Gallery Exhibition, Chelmsford, UK
09/2003 The Brooklyn Painters Show, Red Hook Pier, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition, NYC
09/2003 “Bridging the Gap”, 5 Persons Show, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NYC
01/2003 “A Message From New York”, Lobby Gallery of Durst Organization, Prints, NYC and in Sky Gallery in Osaka, Japan
09/2002 “911 Show/ Artist Respond”, Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, NJ
02/2002 “On The Deuce”, Eight Women Artists, 129 42nd Street, Manhattan, NYC
01/2002 “911 Show/ Artist Respond”, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NYC
11/2001 “911 Show”, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC
10/2001 Pierogi Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC, Flat File display
01/1999 Salon Show, Feral Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
08/1998 “Small Waves In A Big Ocean”, Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC
06/1997 “International Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NYC
04/1996 “April Fools’; Show”, Jacklight Gallery, East Village, NYC
12/1995 “Art Addiction” 2nd International Female Artist’s Art Biennial in Stockholm, Sweden
11/1995 The 18th International Independante Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Japan
06/1995 Three Person Show, Chuck Levitan Gallery, Soho, NYC
05/1995 MFA Thesis Show, The Art Gallery of Brooklyn College, NYC
04/1993 “Talking with Nature”, Three Person Show, The Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching, Lecture, & Workshop:
Russell Sage College, Troy, NY
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Saint Rose College, Albany, NY
Bennington College, North Bennington, VT
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Albany Shambhala Center, Albany, NY
Emma Willard School, Troy, NY
Bethlehem High School, Albany, NY
Snow Farm, The New England Craft Program, MA
Publications, Press and Projects:
“Visual Poetry: New Vistas”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 2023
“Re:Emergence”, Circle 46 Gallery Catalog, 2021
Saatchi Art 2021 Holiday Catalog, Nov. 2021
Smallbany Gallery Catalog, volume one, summer 2021
DEX Lifestyle Magazine, Featured Artist, Düsseldorf Exklusiv, Germany, summer & winter 2021
Artwork for the book cover of Martine Bijl’s Königin außer Dienst, Paul Zsolnay Verlag publishing house, Vienna, Austria, 2021
Artwork for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly magazine, spring & fall 2021
Featuring Artist, WMHT “AHA!” TV Program, A House for Arts, NY, Oct. & Nov. 2020
Featuring Artist, Saatchi Art Fall Catalog, Oct. 2020
Artist collaboration for Andaz Shenzhen Hotel, 2020
Artist collaboration for Toranomon Hills Residential Towers, Tokyo, Japan, 2020
Artist collaboration for Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 2019
“Blue”, Group Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery at 46 Green Street, Hudson, NY, Winter 2019
“Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region”, Essay from Juror Victoria Palermo, The Hyde Collection Exhibition Catalogue, 2019
In collaboration with Sutton Art Consulting, Singapore, 2019
In collaboration with 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC, 2019
Artist collaboration (original painting) for Bellagio, Las Vegas, 2019
“Critical Forum” – The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY, 2019
“The Unusuals”, The Painting Center exhibition digital catalog, 2019
Featured on “The Creators” – Canvas: A Blog by Saatchi Art, January, 2019
Artist collaboration for Rosewood Hotel, Hong Kong, 2018
“Article 13”, Collar Works, 2018
MEA Season 14, Manifest Gallery Exhibition Annual, 2018
“Limited Edition” by Saatchi Art, Holiday 2017
Featured Artist, CHAPTER89 Magazine, July, 2017
In collaboration with Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC, 2017
“Without Beginning or End”, The Trans-Temporal Art of Yeachin Tsai”, Shambhala Times, July, 2017
Featured Artist, ZO Magazine, August, 2016
McDaris Fine Art hosts a reception for four outstanding artists, imby, Hudson, NY, October, 2015
Into Empty Space, Shambhala Times, January, 2014
The Art and Calligraphy of Yeachin Tsai, Shambhala Times, September, 2013
Artist Yeachin Tsai, NY Arts Magazine, 2006
“Talking Hands”, Asian American Women Artists Alliance, A. I. R. Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, Online Catalog, CD-Rom, 2004
“IN WITH THE OLD” – Heights exhibit breathes new life into timeless artistic techniques, Brooklyn Paper, 2003
“A Message From New York”, Prints Exhibition Catalog (CD-Rom), Sky Gallery in Osaka, Japan, 2003
Perdurabo Art Agency Catalogue, (CD-Rom), UK, 2003
Brooklyn College Magazine, Fall 2003
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Newsletter, Brooklyn, New York, 2000
Studio Newsletter, Brooklyn College, New York, 1995
The 18th International Independante Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Japan, 1995
“Talking with Nature”, Exhibition Catalogue, Taipei, Taiwan, 1993
Award & Grant:
2021 New York State Council on the Arts Grant
2020 Albany Center Gallery, Mona Ruth Brickman Memorial Artist of the Year Award, NY
2003 “The Healing Power of ART” Award of Merit, Manhattan Arts International, NYC
1995 Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award, Brooklyn College, CUNY
1994 Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Collections:
Private Collections:
Numerous collectors internationally, including collectors from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia countries: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Singapore
Public Collections:
The Art Student League of New York, Permanent Collection
New York Public Library
Professional Affiliations:
The Painting Center, NYC
440 Gallery, NYC
Asian American Women Artists Alliance, NYC
Albany Center Gallery, NY
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY
Katonah Museum of Art, Artists’ Association, NY
Catskill Art Society, NY