Education:

1995 Brooklyn College of the City University of New York – Master of Fine Arts, under Lennart Anderson
1987 National Taiwan Normal University – Bachelor of Fine Arts
2001~05 Art Student League of New York – Printmaking
1979~84 Studio Study with master painters in Taiwan: Shih-Chiao Lee, Read Lee, Ping-Hsing Ku (Lineage of master Huang Junbi)
1990~93 Acquainted with renowned master painters Yu Chengyao, Chang Kuang-Pin

Solo Exhibitions:

10/2021 “Nature Songs”, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, New York
05/2015 “Inner Light”, Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park, New York
10/2015 Yeachin Tsai Recent Work, McDaris Fine Art, Hudson, NY
02/2004 “Winter Celebration – dancing with color and form”, Chashama Gallery, NYC
09/2000 “The Labyrinth of Memory”, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NYC

Selected Group Exhibitions:

12/2024 “Winter Salon”, J. Gernon Fine Art, Troy, NY
07/2024 “Fence Select”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
05/2024 “Threads – Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Exhibition”, Albany Center Gallery, NY
04/2024 “UN-ARCHIVE”, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
11/2023 “Visual Poetry: New Vistas”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
12/2021 “Upstate Artists”, The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
09/2021 “Rhythm and Flow”, Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY
04/2021 “More Than A Sketchbook: Diary of an Artists”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
10/2020 “Inner Spaces”, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
12/2019 “Blue”, Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson, NY
10/2019 “Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region” Exhibition, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
05/2019 “The Power of Color in Art”, Art Associates Gallery, Albany, NY
03/2019 “The Unusuals”, Invitational, The Painting Center, Chelsea, NYC
04/2018 “Article 13”, The LAB, Collar Works, Troy, NY
02/2018 “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”, Four Person Show, Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY
10/2017 “AQUACHROME”, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
04/2016 “Paperback”, Albany Barn, Stage 1 Gallery, Albany, NY
01/2016 “Great Places and Spaces”, New York State Museum, with Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
01/2016 “Generations X: Razzle Dazzle”, A. I. R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
11/2014 “Response to Nature”, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
12/2009 “Family Album”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
02/2007 “Red”, UAG Gallery (Upstate Artists Guild), Albany, NY
10/2006 “Face and Facades”, UAG Gallery (Upstate Artists Guild), Albany, NY
02/2006 “Made in Brooklyn”, NYMEX, Manhattan, NYC
09/2004 “Still”, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NYC
06/2004 “The Print Show”, Gallery 402, Organization of Independent Artists, Tribeca, NYC
06/2004 “New Prints 2004/ Summer”, International Print Center New York, IPCNY Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
05/2003 “New Prints 2003/ Spring”, International Print Center New York. Curator: Barry Walker, IPCNY Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
05/2004 International Art Show, Lennox Gallery, Central London, UK
05/2004 Pier Show 12, Red Hook Pier, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition, NYC
11/2003 “AAWAA in Brooklyn”, Asian American Women Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, NYC
09/2003 “Bridging the Gap”, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NYC
01/2003 “A Message From New York”, Lobby Gallery of Durst Organization, NYC, and in Sky Gallery in Osaka, Japan
09/2002 “911 Show/ Artist Respond”, Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, NJ
02/2002 “On The Deuce”, 129 42nd Street, Manhattan, NYC
01/2002 “911 Show/ Artist Respond”, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NYC
11/2001 “911”, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC
10/2001 Pierogi Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC, Flat File
08/1998 “Small Waves In A Big Ocean”, Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC
06/1997 “International Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NYC
04/1996 “April Fools’ Show”, Jacklight Gallery, East Village, NYC
12/1995 “Art Addiction” 2nd International Female Artist’s Art Biennial in Stockholm, Sweden
11/1995 The 18th International Independante Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Japan
06/1995 Three Person Show, Chuck Levitan Gallery, Soho, NYC
05/1995 MFA Thesis Show, The Art Gallery of Brooklyn College, NYC
04/1993 “Talking with Nature”, Three Person Show, The Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Teaching, Lecture, & Workshop:

Russell Sage College, Troy, NY
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Saint Rose College, Albany, NY
Bennington College, North Bennington, VT
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Albany Shambhala Center, Albany, NY
Emma Willard School, Troy, NY
Bethlehem High School, Albany, NY
Snow Farm, The New England Craft Program, MA

Publications, Press and Projects:

Artwork for the book cover of “Ocean: How to Save Earth’s Last Wilderness” by Sir David Attenborough, John Murray Press, London, UK, 2024
Artist painting displays in Netflix “Forever” Series set based on the novel by Judy Blume, 2024
“Visual Poetry: New Vistas”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 2023
“Re:Emergence”, Circle 46 Gallery Catalog, 2021
Smallbany Gallery Catalog, volume one, summer 2021
DEX Lifestyle Magazine, Featured Artist, Düsseldorf Exklusiv, Germany, summer & winter 2021
Artwork for the book cover of Martine Bijl’s Königin außer Dienst, Paul Zsolnay Verlag publishing house, Vienna, Austria, 2021
Artwork for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly magazine, spring & fall 2021
Featuring Artist, WMHT “AHA!” TV Program, A House for Arts, NY, Oct. & Nov. 2020
Artist collaboration for Andaz Shenzhen Hotel, 2020
Artist collaboration for Toranomon Hills Residential Towers, Tokyo, Japan, 2020
Artist collaboration for Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 2019
“Blue”, Group Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery at 46 Green Street, Hudson, NY, Winter 2019
“Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region”, Essay from Juror Victoria Palermo, The Hyde Collection Exhibition Catalogue, 2019
Artist collaboration (original painting) for Bellagio, Las Vegas, 2019
“Critical Forum” – The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY, 2019
“The Unusuals”, The Painting Center exhibition digital catalog, 2019
Artist collaboration for Rosewood Hotel, Hong Kong, 2018
“Article 13”, Collar Works, 2018
MEA Season 14, Manifest Gallery Exhibition Annual, 2018
Featured Artist, CHAPTER89 Magazine, July, 2017
“Without Beginning or End”, The Trans-Temporal Art of Yeachin Tsai”, Shambhala Times, July, 2017
Featured Artist, ZO Magazine, August, 2016
Into Empty Space, Shambhala Times, January, 2014
The Art and Calligraphy of Yeachin Tsai, Shambhala Times, September, 2013
Artist Yeachin Tsai, NY Arts Magazine, 2006
“Talking Hands”, Asian American Women Artists Alliance, A. I. R. Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, Online Catalog, CD-Rom, 2004
“IN WITH THE OLD” – Heights exhibit breathes new life into timeless artistic techniques, Brooklyn Paper, 2003
“A Message From New York”, Prints Exhibition Catalog (CD-Rom), Sky Gallery in Osaka, Japan, 2003
Perdurabo Art Agency Catalogue, (CD-Rom), UK, 2003
Brooklyn College Magazine, Fall 2003
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Newsletter, Brooklyn, New York, 2000
Studio Newsletter, Brooklyn College, New York, 1995
The 18th International Independante Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Japan, 1995
“Talking with Nature”, Exhibition Catalogue, Taipei, Taiwan, 1993

Translation Project:

Yeachin Tsai is a meditator. She has translated Buddhism books into Chinese language, including the translation of the Sakyong Mipham’s “Ruling Your World”, “Running with the Mind of Meditation”, “The Shambhala Principle”; and, “Not Always So”, “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness” by Shunryu Suzuki. She also edited the Chinese edition of the Sakyong’s “Turning the Mind into an Ally”; Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s “Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior”, “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”; Lady Diana J. Mukop’s “Dragon Thunder: My life with Chogyam Trungpa”; “Blazing Splendor: The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.” She studied Buddhism from renowned Zen Master Sheng Yen, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and other spiritual masters.

Award & Grant:

2021 New York State Council on the Arts Grant
2020 Albany Center Gallery, Mona Ruth Brickman Memorial Artist of the Year Award, NY
2003 “The Healing Power of ART” Award of Merit, Manhattan Arts International, NYC
1995 Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award, MFA Program, Brooklyn College, CUNY
1994 Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award, MFA Program, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Collections:

Private Collections:
Numerous collectors internationally, including collectors from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia countries: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Singapore

Public Collections:
The Art Student League of New York, Permanent Collection
New York Public Library

Professional Affiliations:

The Painting Center, NYC
J. Gernon Fine Art, ＮY
Albany Center Gallery, NY
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY
Collar Works, NY
Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College, NY
Katonah Museum of Art, Artists’ Association, NY
Catskill Art Society, NY