RueyShiann Shyu was born in 1966 in Taipei Taiwan and currently lives and works in New York and Taipei. He Studied at Fu-Hsing Trade and Art School, Taipei（1983-1986）；Chinese Culture University, Taipei（1989-1992）；Aix-en-Provence Art College, Aix-en-Provence, France（1992-1997）. In 1998 Shyu was awarded the Taipei Award of Taipei Fine Arts Museum；in 2001 the Creation Awards of Lee Chung Sheng Art Foundation；in 2006 the Yageo Tech-Art Award of the Asian Cultural Council of New York.

Shyu’s work appears in numerous public collections worldwide, including National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,Taichung; Chelsea Arts Museum, New York; Taipei Gallery, New York; Location One, New York;Stone Villa, Sydney; Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum;Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Hong Kong Arts Center; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia; Eslite Art Gallery, Taipei; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Montbeliard, France. Solo exhibitions include “First solo exhibition”, Aix-en-Provence City Art Gallery, Aix-en-Provence(1997); “A Language of Precision and Abstraction: overture of Life”, Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei (1999); “Ruey-Shiann Shyu Solo exhibition”, IT Park Gallery, Taipei (1999); “Virtual Reality”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei(2000), “Ruey-Shiann Shyu Open Studio Show”, GAS works studio, England (2002); “About my 97-00”, National Central University; “Beyond the Becoming”, Taipei International Village, Taipei(2006); “Echo from within”, Shin Leh Yuan Art space, Taipei(2006); “Zero to Infinite”, National Hsinchu University of Education, HsinChu(2007), among other venues.

Shyu was also commissioned to make permanent public art works such as “Pregency”, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Taiwan(2007); “Restructure Exercise”, Neihu District, Dept. of Environmental Protection, Taipei(2005) ;“Play a melody”, Software Park, Nangang District, Taipei (2005). “Play a melody” was awarded the 2007 Public Art (Excellence) Award.

Shyu is known for creating machine-like art work. By using mechanical form as an abstract art language to express his various ideas and feelings towards life, memory, and issues concerning environment, society, and politics. A work of art may be composed of a single or hundreds to thousands of different components which he designed and made by himself 95% of these; yet, despite this massive complexity, visually it leaves an impression of simplicity.

A documentary film titled “Making Techno Art out of Rubbish—Shyu RueyShiann” focuses on Shyu’s art career, life and families was made by well-known director Huang Mingchuan in 2006.