About

Founded by Kuo I-Chen in 2017, STUPIN is a platform for artist residencies where individual artists network in the form of studio swaps and as local cultural guides that are much like pins in Google Maps, hence the acronym STUPIN. This platform allows artists to weave a new web of artist residency connections on an international scale.

Kuo I-Chen’s previous body of work was characterized by an artistic language that was poetic and situational. Pivoting around the environment, the fleeting sense of belonging, and a rootless state of mind, his past practice explored the true nature of life …