Chuang Che

Biography

Chuang Che,

( born in 1934, Beijing, China)

Lives and works in New York City since 1973.

Chuang Che was one of the pioneer of the contemporary Chinese  abstraction. Student of Chu Teh Chun from 1954 in Taïwan, in 1958 he joined the Fifth Moon Group, of which he will be one of the main actor. Laureate of the Rockfeller foundation in 1966, he went to New York and then travelled around Europe, meeting Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, Antoni Tapiès. These meetings confimed his desire to emancipate from tradition to better pay hommage to it. From 1973, he isolated himself in a farm in Michigan. For fourteen years, he was creating abstract works - expression of the deep relation to the nature. He has explored the possibilities and limits of different materials : ink, acrylic and oil. The artists plays on the transparency or the opacity of these materials to give the impression of the strenghth of natural elements.

Exhibitions selected

2017 - Ailleurs est ici, École des Filles, Huelgoat
2017 - Art Paris Art Fair, Paris

2015 - Géographie de la mémoire, Gallery Françoise Livinec, Paris

2015 - Retrospective exhibition, Taipei Museum, Taiwan

2012 - Art Center of Asia, Taipei, Taïwan

2007 - National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2006 - Art Center of Asia, Taipei, Taïwan

2005 - Fine Arts Museum, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taïwan

2002 - Guangdong Art Museum, China

1980 - National Museum of History, Taipei, Taïwan

1977 - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

1972 - Newark Art Museum, Newark, New Jersey, United States

1970 - Fine Arts Museum, Flint, Michigan, United States

1968 - Taïwan Museum, Taipei, Taïwan

1965 - Taïwan National Art Center, Taipei, Taïwan

Collections

National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiepei, Taiwan
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Detroit Art Museum, Detroit, MI
Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong, China
Art Museum, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The Spencer Art Museum, The University of Kansas, Lawrence KA

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong, China
Art Museum of Central Institute of Fine Arts, China
List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge, MA