Honor
Liu Kuo-sung
On the afternoon of October 8, 2016, the Father of Modern Ink Painting, Liu Kuo-sung (Liu Guosong) was induced as a foreign honorary member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is the longest-running and most prestigious academic institution on the United States. Presently, the Academy has over 4,000 academicians, including 250 Nobel Laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners, 600 of which are foreign academicians. In addition to scientists and humanists, the Academy s also recognizes writers and artists.
In the Academy’s history, over 60 academician have been of Chinese descent, including the educator Hu Shih, the mathematician Tsien Hsue-shen, and the chemist Yuan T. Lee. Liu Kuo-sung was the first to be elected from the Taiwan in the arts and humanities field, and the first Chinese painter to receive this honor.
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The Liu Kuo-sung Reader – Harvard University Press
New Publication
Liu Kuo-sung
Now available online is The Liu Kuo-sung Reader: Selected Texts on and by the Artists, 1950s – Present. Edited by Eugene Y. Wang, Valerie C. Doran, and Alan C. Yeung, and published by Harvard FAS CAM Lab on May 7, 2024, the Reader is the first English anthology on the Taipei-based artist, featuring many previously unpublished and untranslated texts.
Eugene Y. Wang, et al., The Liu Kuo-sung Reader. Cambridge: Harvard FAS CAMLab, 2024 © Harvard University Press
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