臺北科大藝文中心

Exhibition Period｜2020/05/18～05/30

Jointly organized by the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, the NTUT Arts Center, and the Taiwan Poster Design Association, the National Student Taiwanese Indigenous Poster Competition entered its seventh edition. This milestone not only symbolized more than a decade of continuous effort, but also reflected the long-term dedication to promoting the competition and preserving the vitality of poster design centered on Indigenous Taiwanese culture.

The theme of this year’s competition was The Beauty of Taiwanese Indigenous Sports and Rhythms, inspired in part by the excitement surrounding the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade. The theme encouraged enthusiastic participation from students across Taiwan. More than 1,500 works were submitted by students from 51 schools, ranging from high school students to graduate students, all expressing their creativity through diverse visual interpretations.

Participants included not only Taiwanese students, but also exchange students from mainland China, overseas Chinese students, and Japanese international students studying in Taiwan. The youngest participant was only 15 years old, while the oldest participant was 68, reflecting the competition’s wide-ranging appeal and inclusiveness.

For the first time, the award-winning works from this competition were scheduled to be exhibited at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The broad participation and international exhibitions further demonstrated the global appeal and creative potential of Taiwanese Indigenous culture as a design element.

Over the years, exhibitions featuring works from the National Student Taiwanese Indigenous Poster Competition have received enthusiastic responses from cultural centers and campuses across Taiwan and have steadily expanded internationally. To date, the exhibition series has accumulated 77 touring exhibitions. Previous international exhibitions have included showcases at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan, the Taiwan Cultural Center in Tokyo, the University of California, Berkeley, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Following this year’s exhibition, the awarded works were not only scheduled to tour Taiwan once again, but were also invited for a second exhibition at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom.

In 2019, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, the competition’s award-winning works were once again selected for exhibition at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, marking another important step in promoting Taiwanese Indigenous culture on the international stage.

Exhibition Highlights