Chuang Che, born in 1934 in Beijing, is the son of Chuang Yen, who served as the Deputy Director of the Palace Museum. This rich family heritage allowed him to master the art of Chinese painting from a young age. During the turbulent war years, he followed the relocation of the national treasures of the Palace Museum and eventually grew up in Taiwan. In 1957, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Taiwan Normal University and joined the “Fifth Moon Group” in the same year, actively participating in the modernization movement of Chinese painting and becoming one of its key members. From 1963 to 1973, Chuang Che taught in the Department of Architecture at Tunghai University. In 1966, he received a grant from the Rockefeller III Foundation to study contemporary world art in the United States. In 1973, he officially moved to the United States, where he traveled extensively through the famous mountains and rivers of the United States and Canada, embarking on a 14-year pastoral life. He later moved to New York, where he continues to create art to this day. In 1986, he received funding from an American foundation to return to Taiwan for a year and was invited to be a visiting professor at the National Institute of the Arts for a year.
Chuang Che has long been dedicated to exploring the art of painting, advancing both painting and abstract theory with remarkable success. His abstract landscapes are structured with calligraphic lines, creating a majestic yet ethereal depiction of nature. The compositions are rich and complex, with ever-changing color spaces, carving out a new path in traditional landscape painting. He is a rare and invaluable artist in contemporary art.
Chuang’s public collection includes Pompidou Centre in Paris, Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Art Museum in USA; his important exhibitions include Saginaw Art Museum in Michigan in 1977, Effusive Vitality: Chuang Che Retrospective Exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2015, and Chuang Che Anniversary Solo Exhibition: As Lofty as a Mountain 1960-2019 at Asia Art Center Taipei in 2020. His most important recent exhibition is the 2024 “Vivacity Overflowing: Chuang Che at 90” special exhibition at the Asia University Museum of Modern Art. The Longing for the Abstract：Chuang Che, Fong Chung-Ray, Yang Chihung Chuang Che, Fong Chung-Ray, Yang Chihung at Asia Art Center Taipei (2022), Transgression throughout the Volatile World Inaugural Exhibition of Asia Art Center Taipei New Flagship Space at Asia Art Center Taipei (2021), Zeitgeist: Abstract Art of Eastern Origin at Beijing Asia Art Center (2019), FROM CHINA TO TAÏWAN. Pioneers of abstraction (1955-1985) at Le Musée d’Ixelles (2017), and 1960 – The Origin of Taiwan’s Modern Art at Asia Art Center Taipei (2016).