Photography / 許培鴻 © 2021 HSU PEI-HUNG
Born in 1932 in China’s Anhui Province and settled in Taiwan in 1949. Currently, Liu Kuo-sung is chair professor at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU).
After graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at NTNU in 1955 Liu co-founded the Fifth Moon Group and initiated a modern art movement in Taiwan to promote the “modernization of Chinese painting”.
Liu received the National Award for Arts from Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation in 2008, the Award for Lifetime Achievement at the very first biannual China Arts Award organized by Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2011, made an honorary member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles in 2016 and conferred with the Executive Yuan Cultural Prize by the Taiwanese government in 2017. In 2016, he was the very first Chinese painter to be granted a foreign honorary membership from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Until today, close to 100 solo exhibitions and retrospectives have been organized of Liu’s vast repertoire. More than half of these were invitations from museums all over the world. More than 70 institutions—Beijing’s Palace Museum and London’s British Museum among them—have acquired his works into their permanent collections. Monographs on Liu’s practice have been published in Chinese, English, and German. Numerous collegiate art textbooks widely used at American and German universities cite his theories and include illustrations of his paintings.
