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Tom Galle, John Yuyi — Face Messenger

Tom Galle, John Yuyi
Face Messenger (2016)

BIO

Tom Galle is a concept driven Artist working in the realm of surreal, internet culture-inspired scenes. His fast-paced conceptual art keeps up with the speed of the Internet -- and often sets it. The result is viral content embraced by meme cycles, often becoming the catalyst for discussions on subjects of digital zeitgeist. Tom’s visual language is best known for its simplicity, absurdism and sarcasm. Recurring themes include aspects of meme-culture, digital intimacy, Internet dependency, contemporary/corporate branding, and more. Tom was born in Belgium. He currently works and lives in Berlin.

Born in 1991, John Yuyi is a Taiwanese visual artist based in New York City who uses the internet and social media as both the premise and platform for much of her creative work. She graduated from Shih Chien University with a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design.
She explores themes of the life and moment she and other human beings are living in right now which happens to be mainly taken role by social media and the internet. Her works reflect the emotion and bipolar disorder of herself and the feeling of modern society by daily observation and the sensitive feeling of emotion from others. Her most well known medium is temporary tattoos.
She began her career with a swimming suit collection that connects her fashion design education with graphic content creation. Important exhibitions include: The Next Gen: John Yuyi, The Art Vacancy, New York (2018), My (Temporary) Self, Make Room, Los Angeles (2018), John Yuyi, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai (2018), Taipei Dangdai, Taipei (2019), Manifest of freedom - 193 Gallery,Paris(2020), Eye Sees No Lashes, TAO ART, Taipei (2021), THE ARTIST IS ONLINE, KÖNIG GALERIE, Dencentraland (2021), How to Win at Photography, Fotomuseum winterthur, Switzerland (2021)
Yuyi has been invited to collaborate with international brands for creative campaigns and commercial projects such as Gucci, Nike, Maison Margiela, KENZO, and Burberry. In 2018, Yuyi was listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 - Asia - The Arts, and in 2020 she was listed as British Fashion Council 50 NEW WAVE: Creatives. Her works have also appeared in 9 pages of special reports in The New York Times and cover of VOGUE taiwan.

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