Lineage 2021

5/1 (Sat) - 6/12/2021 (Sat)

Jenny Chen, Lai Chi-Man, Cynthia Sah, Li Jiin-Shiow, Lin Chun-Ju, SzuMin Kuo, Wang Gon-Jer, Chiu Dou

Jenny Chen was born in Chongqing, China in 1944. Chen graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, National Chengchi University in 1968, and received her MFA from Pratt Institute, New York in 1990. Since 1987, the artist has exhibited in numerous art institutions and galleries, including Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaundu Museum of Fine Arts, Shanghai Art Museum, Lincoln Center in New York, the Grand Palais in Paris, National Art Museum of China, and China Art Museum, etc. Her works are included in the collections of Pratt Institute, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Shanghai Art Museum, etc.

Born in Hong Kong in 1949, he studied sculpture at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts (now National Taiwan University of Arts, NTUA). After graduating, he went on to hone his craft at the world renowned Henraux studio at the Carrara quarry in Italy, where he would encounter internationally celebrated artists such as Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, and Pietro Cascella. After training there for four years, Lai received the Robert I. Russin sculpture fellowship and went to Wyoming in the US where he also successfully completed a Master of Fine Art degree in 1980. He subsequently travelled to the Netherlands, where he obtained the status as a professional artist in 1982 and launched his career as a fulltime artist. In 1984, the National Taiwan Institute of Arts(now Taipei National University of the Arts, TNUA) invited Lai to return to Taiwan to teach at their Department of Fine Arts. His works have been collected by the Dutch National BKR Visual Arts Agency, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, the Hara Museum ARC in Japan, the Shanghai Sculpture Park, among others.

Born in Hong Kong in 1952, Cynthia Sah grew up in Taiwan in the 60s, and after receiving her MA in Art and Art Education, she moved to and settled down in Seravezza near Mount Carrara in Italy, starting a life of travelling between Taiwan and Italy. Over her more than four decades of sculptor career, Sah has obtained various achievements. She is the recipient of the First Prize of Chinese Modern Sculpture Exhibition and was featured in OPEN 2000—International Exhibition of Sculpture in Venice.

Li Jiin-Shiow was born in Chiayi in 1953. She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University in 1976, and later L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts-Decoratifs de Paris, where she graduated with the top honor of “Talens.” During 1974 and 1976, Li studied under Li Chun-Shan with her classmate Hwang Buh-Ching. Li mainly created abstract and semi-abstract painting. Incorporating Li Chun-Shan’s teaching of modern art into her creative work, Li continued exploring the subconscious and created works featuring mental imagery, showing a formal language that was highly individualistic. Li Chun-Shan, Liao Chi-Chun, Shiy De-Jiin and Liao Shiou-Ping were all influential contributors to her modern, avant-garde thinking and international perspectives. She passed away in Tainan in 2003.

Born in Taipei in 1964. After graduating from Fu Jen Catholic University with a BA in Chinese Literature, Lin Chun-Ju entered the College of Art, University of Complutense Madrid and graduated with a BFA in 1992. She is now a professional artist and is known for her large-scale fiber sculpture and public art project. In recent years, she has also engaged in the exhibitions in Taiwan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, and Spain and focus the creation of acrylic and oil painting as well as Japanese ceramics.

Born in Taipei in 1964. In 1986, she graduated from the Department of French, Tamkang University. She received her B. Arch. from California Institute of the Arts in 1992, and her M. Arch from Yale University in 1994. Afterwards, she worked as a project designer at the renowned American architecture firm SOM and Chien Architects & Associates. From 1997 to 2009, she was an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Tamkang University; and in 2001, she founded her personal studio. Kuo has held several solo exhibitions and participated in various group exhibitions, among which are The Consciousness Flows Within (Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, 2020), Metamorphosis (Taitung County Museum, 2013), Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition (Basel, 2012), Interplay (Fang Suo, Guangzhou, 2012), and An Exhibition of Contemporary Jewelry (Transmissions Gallery, California, 2006).

Born in 1971 in Taipei. In 2009 Wang Gon-Jer received his PhD in Fine Art at the Auckland University, New Zealand. After returning to Taiwan, he worked as a lecturer in various universities and now teaches at Tainan University of Technology. His works have been exhibited in various countries around the world such as, new Zealand, Japan, USA, Taiwan, Canada, Italy, China, etc.

Born in 1982, LinKou, New Taipei City. Chiu received BA from Department of Fine Arts and Crafts Education from National Hsinchu Teachers College in 2005 and graduated from Department of Arts and Design in National Tsing Hua University in 2009. He has also conducted artist residencies in Hsinchu and Miaoli in 2020 and 2017. Chiu has been invited to exhibit around the world in cities such as, New York, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and The Netherlands. His work also featured at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts collection.