The 36th National Cultural Award

Award
Liu Kuo-sung

Taiwan’s National Cultural Award ceremony was held at the Executive Yuan on April 27, 2017. Liu Kuo-sung, artist Cheng Shan-hsi and director Tsai Ming-liang were recipients for this year. Premier Lin Chuan and the Minister Cheng of the Ministry of Culture personally addressed the event and commended Liu Kuo-sung for his contributions to the modernization of Chinese ink painting. Liu Kuo-sung, however, was a bit under the weather and his daughter Liu Lin-hui accepted the honor and expressed thanks on his behalf.

– The Liu Kuo-sung Archives

Premier Lin Chuan and Liu Kuo-sung’s daughter, Liu Lin-hui. Photo: Timothy Chang

Art in Our Times – National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Museum Exhibition
Liu Kuo-sung
Several Modern ink paintings by Liu Kuo-sung’s are now on view at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung. Celebrating the NTMoFA’s 35th anniversary, Art in Our Times features highlights the Museum’s permanent collection, and offers four curatorial perspectives of Taiwan’s art history
Installation View, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. Photo: T. Chang

Experimentation as Method

Museum Exhibition
Liu Kuo-sung
The Father of Modern Ink, Liu Kuo-sung’s large-scale retrospective at the National Gallery Singapore opens from Jan 13 to Nov 26, 2023. The exhibition features over sixty paintings and 150 archival items from the Taipei-based artist’s career of over seventy years, as well as highlights Liu’s innovation and contribution to the developing the genre of Modern Ink Painting.
Installation view, National Gallery Singapore. Photo: National Gallery Singapore

2023 Hengshan Calligraphy Biennial

Museum Exhibition
Liu Kuo-sung
ERA OF PRINCIPLE AND NO PRINCIPLE – Calligraphy as a Visual Form opens Jan 20, 2023 to April 24 at Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center at Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. Curated by Wu Chao-Jen of Tunghai University’s Department of Fine Arts, the exhibition invites Taiwanese and international artists to explore calligraphy as a visual form in Contemporary art and its possible future development as a practice.
Installation View, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taoyuan. Photo: TMOFA