Chou Chih-Fang (b. 1980, Chiayi, Taiwan) is a contemporary Taiwanese artist currently based in Kaohsiung. She is recognized for her vibrant and distinctive painting style, which explores the subtle tensions between daily emotions, female identity, and self-awareness. Her works feature bright colors, simple lines, and symbolic figures, balancing humor with vulnerability, reflecting the interplay between reality and the inner world.

Chou’s creative process often begins with charcoal sketches, which are developed into acrylic or oil paintings that resemble single-frame comics capturing fleeting emotions and absurd moments of everyday life. In recent years, she has reduced her reliance on digital color planning and flat painting techniques, slowing down the painting process to allow brushstrokes to convey layers of thought and hesitation, giving her work a dynamic sense of rhythm and emotional flow.

Her subject matter includes animals, people, fantastic creatures, plants, and everyday scenes. Through metaphor and symbolism, Chou’s paintings explore social phenomena, interpersonal relationships, personal emotions, and the fragility of life. Between 2018 and 2022, she held multiple solo exhibitions in Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Hsinchu. Notably, in 2022, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum presented her solo exhibition hi! Hello!, which divided the works into four thematic subgroups and explored how a common greeting can convey different emotions and meanings, reflecting the artist’s personal state and her engagement with the world.

Her works are included in private collections and public institutions such as the Arts Bank of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Chou holds a B.F.A. in Art Education from National Hsinchu University of Education (2004) and an M.F.A. in Plastic Arts from Tainan National University of Arts (2008). She has received numerous awards, including the Taipei Fine Arts Award, Merit Award (2007), the Sian Art Award (2007), and Taipei Fine Arts Award, Selected (2004), as well as the Sian Art Award (2004).