ZHONG CHENG

楊識宏 YANG CHIHUNG (b.1947)

Yang Chihung was born in Taoyuan, Taiwan, he graduated from National Taiwan College of Arts in 1968. He is one of the most important abstract expressionist of Asia. He immigrated to New York in 1979. In 2004 he published a photography series titled “Taiwan Culture and People Photography Journal.” In the same year, he was honored by National Taiwan College of Art for Successful Alumni. His held many exhibitions in cities like Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing, Han City, London, New York, Chicago and more. In total, more than fifty solo exhibitions and two hundred group exhibitions. His recent exhibitions include: “Painting 40 Years” (2010, Taipei Fine Arts Museum); “Existing Passageway” (2011, Beijing Asian Art Center); “Thought Space” (2012, Taipei Asia Art Center); and most recent exhibition “The Poetics of Polyphony: Yang Chihung Gallery”(2014, Asian Art Center) presenting the “Time Scar” and “Modern Perspective” series; “Eternal Present- Yang Chihung Recent Work Exhibition” (2015, Ueno Royal Museum); the last Asian abstract artist to exhibit at Ueno Royal was the great painter Chu Teh-Chun in 2007- “Great Abstraction- Chu Teh-Chun Work Exhibition.” In 2016, Asia Art center held “1960 – The Origin of Taiwan’s Modern Art” featuring Yang’s works. In 2017-2018, he held “The Sensibilities of Black and White – YANG CHIHUNG’s Recent Works from the Stream of Consciousness Series” in Asia Art Center (Beijing). His works can be found in international museums and many important private collections. 

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