THE ARTIST
Chen Shu-mingChen Shu-ming
Beginning with a gaze,
exploring ways of seeing between painting and images.
About Chen Shu-ming
Chen Shu-ming (陳世明, born 1948) is a Taiwanese artist working across drawing, ink painting, painting, mixed media, and photography. His works are held by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of History, and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Chen Shu-ming was born in Changhua, Taiwan, in 1948. He graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts in 1970 and completed his studies at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain, in 1976.
His practice spans drawing, ink painting, painting, mixed media, and photography. He also taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. From figurative depiction and abstract composition to the reassembly of photographic images, he continues to explore the relationship between space and looking.
Key facts
- Born
- 1948, Changhua, Taiwan
- Education
- National Taiwan Academy of Arts (1970)
- San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain (1976)
- Teaching
- Department of Fine Arts, National Institute of the Arts (now Taipei National University of the Arts), 1984–2013
- Media
- Drawing, ink painting, painting, mixed media, photography
- Public collections
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of History, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
01 / PRACTICE
Artistic practice
From figuration to abstraction
His early training in realism gradually developed into an investigation of form and space. Lines, planes of colour, and composition became ways to express inner experience.
Expanding space through images
Photography introduced another material into his practice. Fragments of nature and the city are layered and rearranged, creating richly textured image spaces.
Exhibition essay · TFAM, 陳世明→縱探語境 ↗02 / MILESTONES
Life and career
- 1948
Born in Changhua, Taiwan.
Source ↗ - 1970
Graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts.
Source ↗ - 1976
Graduated from the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain.
Source ↗ - 1977
Studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and returned to Taiwan the same year.
Source ↗ - 1984–2013
Taught in the Department of Fine Arts at the National Institute of the Arts, now Taipei National University of the Arts.
Source ↗ - 2012
Held the solo exhibition 縱探語境 at Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
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