ZHONG CHENG

Born in Taichung. Chen Laihsin graduated from the National Junior College of the Arts in 1972. He had served as the teacher of Hsiushui Junior High School. He held his first solo exhibition in Taipei In 1977, and was invited to exhibit at the Taipei American Culture Center in 1981. He then successively exhibited his works at King Stone Gallery in Taichung, Tamsui Center of Arts and Culture, ChangHua County Cultural Affairs Bureau ,Taipei Fine Arts Museum and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and so on. In 1984 some of Chen's works were selected for the exhibition of new Taiwanese painters held by the Hanart T Z Gallery in Hong Kong, and in 1988, he traveled the US on a lecture-exhibition tour. Chen's paintings mainly depict life and natural scenery in Taiwan which full of local vitality.