Being a professional sculptor was not something for bragging instead it was a mission and responsibility.
In the fall of 1980, I quit the teaching job and became a full time artist.
Researched sculpture, fully devoted myself to creation of art twenty four hours a day seven days a week, and studied different theories and movements of arts, including the origin of Modern Art, actualization of Abstract Art, Daddism, Surrealism, Assemblage Art, OP and POP Art ,Minimal Art, Happening and Event Art, Conceptual Art, New Realism, Performance Art, and Installation Art, For creating Art, I started from clay and wood sculpture as a student to the skills and theories of steel sculpture as a full time artist. I was familiar with steel since I was a kid. For more than twenty years, I completely devoted myself to the sculpting of steel.
Comparing it to the starting and experimenting steel sculpture thirty years ago, it showed big differences and improvements in both the content and the appearance. Even though being a professional sculptor today, I strongly feel the broad and difficulty of art and dare not overlook. Hope another breakthrough in the creation is on the way and better results and improvements in the future.
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1945 Born in Taipei.
Education
1969 Graduated From National Taiwan Academy of Arts, majoring in Sculpture
2004 Master of Fine Art, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Solo Exhibitions：
1972 Seiko Gallery, Taipei
1991 Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1995 Hsiung Shih Arts Monthly Gallery, Taipei
1996 Howard Salon, Taipei
1996 Taipei County Cultural Center, Taipei
1997 The James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland
1998 （Kunst-Und Kulturscheune）The Sculpture Park, Katzow, Germany
1999 National Center University Art Center, Taiwan
2002 National Center University Art and Cultural Center, Taiwan
2005 Field Fun in Aki Gallery, Taipei
2006 Show of Antirust-Metal Sculpture and Teaching Exhibition, Taipei
Joint Exhibitions:
1973-1975 Fang Jing Art Exhibition, Taipei
1984 Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
1986 The Third-Generation Sculpture Exhibition, National Museum of History, Taipei
1992 Contemporary Taiwan Sculpture, Taipei Gallery, New York
1993 The Second International Sculpture-workshop, Katzow, Germany
1993 The Second Exhibition of The Association of Asian Contemporary Sculptors,Pusan, Korea & Fukuoka, Japan
1993 Modern Taiwanese Sculpture-Dialectic Between Material and Form, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1993 The Taiwan Arts Exhibition（1945-1993）,Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1994 The Third International Sculpture-workshop, Katzow, Germany
1995 Graz International Sculpture-workshop, Austria
1995 International Symposium on Public Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
1996 The Exhibition of Black Esthetical Analysis, Dimensions Art Gallery, Taipei
1996 The 14TH National Art Exhibition of The Republic of China
1998 Monumental Sculpture in the Elements: An International Exhibition of OutdoorSculpture, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
1998 Campus Sculptural Exhibition at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
1998 The 7TH International Sculpture-workshop, Katzow, Germany
1999 Historical Event Remapping: Witnesses．Reflections．Revivals,Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1999 Contemporary Sculpture From Japan, Korea and Taiwan,Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
1999 The 6th Exhibition of The Association of Asian Contemporary Sculptors, Japan
1999 An Insight to Marble ＆ Iron-Joint Exhibition Hanart Gallery, Taipei
1999 Cross－Century Sculpture Exhibition of the Republic of China, Taiwan
1999 The 15th National Art Exhibition of The Republic of China
2000 The Exhibition of art works by the association of Asian Contemporary Sculptors,Akarenga Culture Center, Fukuoka, Japan
2000 Cultivation－A Review of independent Art-Plowmen, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei
2000 The Small Scale Sculpture 1999-2000 Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
2001 The Exhibition of Thinking and Creation, Chiang Kai-shek Airport, Taiwan
2001 The 10th International Sculpture-workshop, Katzow, Germany
2002 The First International Miniature Sculpture Exhibition, National Museum of History
2002 International Steel＆lron Sculpture Festival In Kaohsiung, Taipei
2003 International Exhibition of The Association of Asian Contemporary Sculptors,Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2003 Metal Art VS. Metal Makeup, Taipei
2003 Hualien International Sculpture Exhibition, Taiwan
2004 Passages And Beyond: Contemporary Sculptures In Taiwan
2004 The Multiform Nineties: Taiwan ’Art Branches Out, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2005 Kuandu Extravaganza, Exhibition of Modem Art In Taiwan
2006 Art Taipei 2006
2006 New Dimension, The Exhibition By Professors of The Department of Sculpture of NTUA
The Others:
2000 To Get Wu-San-Lien Literary Award
2000 To Be the Artist-in-Residence at National Tsinghai University
Collections:
National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
The James Joyce Centre, Leland
The Head Office of the International Commercial Bank of China, Taiwan
Ingo-Ming Middle School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Kaohsiung Hospitality College, Taiwan
Hong-gash Museum, Taipei
Howard Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The Sculpture Park, Kato, Germany
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