On 25 July 2026, Taiwanese artist Ya-Ting Kao is set to open her latest solo exhibition, The Folds of Time. The exhibition takes a look at the relationship between artistic creation and the passage of time through a series of works centered on flowers in different stages of decay. Kao specifically turns her attention to faded and shrivelled flowers, treating them as symbols of endurance and transformation.
Kao’s new body of works on paper combine oil pastel with watercolour and ink in large-scale compositions. The layered materials mirror processes of change within the natural world as well as human experience, creating richly textured compositions that blur the boundary between the primordial and the ephemeral. In these works, Kao seeks to capture what she describes as the “folds” of time.
Kao received her MFA in Painting from Taipei National University of the Arts and has exhibited at museums across Taiwan, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. Founded in 2014, Nunu Fine Art has built an international programme celebrating artists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, expanding to New York in 2023 as the first Taiwanese gallery to establish a contemporary gallery space in the city.
The Folds of Time will be on view 25 July 2026 – 26 September 2026 at Nunu Fine Art Taipei.
