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LEIGH WEN-CHENG

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION


1994 M.F.A. University at Albany, State University of New York, NY 

1985 M.A. University at Albany, State University of New York, NY

1984 B.F.A. Washington State University, WA


HONORS AND AWARDS


2019 Africa Botswana Cultural Exchange Program,  U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 

2018 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, permanent collections, United States Department of State, U.S.A. 

2013 First Place, National Yu-Shang Competition, Taiwan 

2013 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Poland, Warsaw 

2012 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Namibia, Africa 

2011 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Copenhagen 

2010 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Taiwan 

2008 Africa Botswana Cultural Exchange Program,  U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 

2006 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Hong-Kong 

2006 Taiwan President Office, Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Taiwan 

2006 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Botswana 

2006 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Barbados 

2005 Artist Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY, NY

2003 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies, Manila, the Philippines 

2002 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Malaysia 

2003 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies, Singapore 

2002 Artist Residency, sponsored by Centre D'Art I Natura, Farrera De Pallars, Spain 

2001 Fourth Place in Painting, Lorezo Il Magnifico Award. The Biennial Internationale   Dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Florence, Italy 

2001 Sotheby’s - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellows’ exhibition, NY, NY 

2000 Helena Rubinstein Fellow, The Helena Rubinstein Foundation, NY, NY 

2000 Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY, NY 

1999 Artist Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY, NY

1999 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies program, Amman, Jordan

1998 Artist Award, New York State Assembly, NY

1998 Juror’s Award, Gazette Newspaper Award. 

1998 Purchase Award, Albany Institute of History & Art, NY 

1998 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region Juried Exhibition, Schenectady Museum

1998 New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, NY

1997 Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York

1997 People’s Choice Award, New York State University, NY

1996 Artist Grant, National Taiwan Art and Humanity Foundation, Taiwan

1996 Mohawk-Hudson Invitational Exhibit, Albany Center Galleries, NY

1996 Artist Grant NYFA/RCCA

1995 University at Albany Purchase Award, Mohawk-Hudson Region Juried Exhibition.  1995 Purchase Award, University of Wisconsin – Parkside, Kenosha, WI

1980 Outstanding Merit, Festival of Youth and Arts, Young Artists in Asia Competition, HK 1979 First Prize in Painting, Republic of China , Ten Outstanding Young Talents, Taiwan 

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2022 Bangkok Art And Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand 

2021 America University Museum, Washington D.C.

2019 Farglory Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 

2019 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Botswana Embassy  

2018 United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, permanent collections, American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan 

2017 Art Beijing, China 

2016 Transit • Transformation ─ Solo Exhibition,  Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan 

2016 Concerto Chapter IV, University Arts Center, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 

2016 Mingshan Art & Modern Art Gallery, Taiwan 

2016 Route, Wellington Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 

2015 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2015 Modern Art Gallery, Mingshan Art, Solo exhibitions, Taiwan 2014 Taipei Art Fair with Mingshan Art and Guan-Xian Art Gallery, Taiwan 

2014 Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL

2013 Mingshan Art, Taipei, Taiwan 

2013 Taipei Art Fair, Guan-Xian Art Gallery, Taiwan 2013 Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan 

2012 Fond Museum, Beijing, China 

2012 Modern Art Gallery, Taiwan 

2012 LWFA, New York, NY 2011 Mingshan Art, Taiwan 

2010 Modern Art Gallery, Taiwan 

2009 Glass Garage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY

2008 The Beacon Institute, Beacon, NY

2007 Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Glass Garage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Haen Gallery, Asheville, NC

2006 Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

2005 The Butler Institute of American Art Museum, Youngstown, OH

2005 Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for Arts, Atlanta, GA

2003 Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

2001 Elementos, Reed Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2000 The Four Elements, Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Arnot Art Museum, NY

2000 The Four Elements, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 

1998 Water vs. Fire, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY

1998 Water vs. Fire, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1997 The Harbour and the Open Seas, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1997 The Harbour and the Open Seas, Yates Art Gallery, Siena College, NY

1996 The Harbour and the Open Seas, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1996 The Harbour and the Open Seas, Lung Men Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1996 The Harbour and the Open Seas, Albany Center Galleries, NY

COLLECTIONS


Freedom Tower World Trade Center, New York

United States Department of State, Washington

Farglory Group, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 

Cathay United Bank, Taipei, Taiwan 

National Taiwan Fine Art Museum, Taiwan 

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan 

E. Sun Bank, Taipei, Taiwan  

UC San Diego, San Diego, CA

Sun Products Corporate, Wilton, CT

Johnson & Johnson

SL Green Development, New York, NY

Barclays Capital, New York, NY

Barclays Capital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Eileen Mason, Deputy of National Endowments of the Arts, USA 

United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, USA 

Butler Institute of American Art

Freshens Inc. Atlanta, GA

Siena College, New York

Albany Institute of History & Art

University at Albany, State University of New York

University of Wisconsin, Parkside, WI

State University of New York

Art Pool, Budapest, Hungary 

Phoenix Life Insurance Company

National Taiwan University of Art, Taiwan 

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Museum, Taiwan 

Bullard, McLeod and Associates, and over 100 private collections 


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2012 Portsmouth Museum, NH

2011 The Haen Gallery, USA

2011 LWFA Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Mingshan Art, Taipei, Taiwan 

2009 Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA

2002 Art in Embassies Program, the Philippines, Jordan, Singapore, Barbados, China, and  Moscow, United States Department of State

2006 Taiwan president Office, Taipei, Taiwan

2006 2 X 13 Gallery, NY, NY

2006 Allen Sheppard Gallery, NY, NY

2005 Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD

2005 Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 

2005 Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

2004 Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2004 Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

2004 John Pence Gallery/Arnot Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

2002 Scott White Contemporary Art, CA

2002 Beyond the Landscape, University of California, San Diego, University Gallery, CA 

2001 Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy 

2001 Re-presenting Representation, Corning Incorporated Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Zone of Myth: Between Tenderness and Tension, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan 1999 Visions of Pluralism, Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan  

1999 Art Music Dance, The Art Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY

1999 Arnot Art Museum, Re-presenting Representation IV Exhibition, Biennial, Elmira, NY  1997 Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY

1996 10th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin

1996 First Annual National Juried Small Works, Chuck Levitan Gallery, NY

1996 Small Works International, Amos Eno Gallery, NY

1996 Large Small Work ’95 International, Slowinski Gallery, NY

1996 National Work on Paper Exhibition, St. John’s University, NY

1996 9th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

1995 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1995 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

1994 University Art Museum, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY

1994 Russell Sage College Gallery, Troy, NY

1985 University Art Museum, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY


JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES


Taiwan Panorama, Vol. 41, No. 11, November 2016 

Taiwan Tatler, Vol. 9, No. 100, September 2016 

Artist, No.496, September 2016 

Art Trade Journal, June, 2014 

Marie Claire, July, 2014 

Water Front Home and Design, Fall 2005 

Art New 2001, Summer Edition 

Vision of Pluralism, Contemporary Art in Taiwan, 1988-1999, Mountain Art Museum 

New American Paintings, Number 14, The Open Studio Press, February 1998 

Taipei Art Fair 1997 

International Asian Art News, Vol. 8, No. 2, March/April 1998 

Chinese Art News, April 1998 

Modern Art Bi-monthly, No. 64, 1996, Taipei Fine Art Museum 

ARCH, August 1998, No. 103 

Dialogue, April 1998, No. 013 

Vogue, April 1998 

Harper’s Bazaar, April 1998, No. 100 

VIVI Magazine, April 1998 

Unitas, September 1998, No. 167 

Gleaners, June 1996 

Natural Beauty, June 1996 


REVIEWS


ARTCO, No. 290, Vol. 290, November 2016

Art Investment, No. 108, October 2016 

American Art Collector, 2011 

Taiwan Central News, Taiwan, Nov 2010 

Taiwan Apple News, May 2010 

Botswana Daily News, Gaborone, Botswana, April 2008 

Poughkeepsie Journal, Spring 2008 

The Chronogram, April 2008 

Times Union, Albany, NY August 2008 

Troy Record, Troy, NY 2008 

The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, June 2008 

UPSTATE Magazine, Fall 2007 

Richmond Review, November 2007 

Art and Antiques, Dec 2007 

Art in America, May, 2006 

Artco, Asia, 2006 

Piedmont Review, Atlanta, GA April 2005 

Atlanta Journal-Constitutionl, GA, March 6, 2004 

The Times Union, Albany, NY, March 2001 

Art News, summer edition 2001, May 2000 

The Times Union, Albany, NY June 1999 

Metroland, Albany, NY, September 18, 1997 

Chicago Reader, May 23, 1997 

Metroland, Albany, NY. May 17, 1997 

The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, May 8, 1997 

Metroland, Albany, NY. June 19, 1997 

The Times Union, Albany, NY, May 1996 

The Times Union, Albany, NY 


PUBLICATIONS


Art Solo -- Flower or Not, 2014 

Collaboration Between Chen-Long Lin and Leigh L. Wen -- Turbulent Sea Rouses Slumbering Earth, 2008  

Earth, Fire, Air, and Water, 2000, Lungmen Art Gallery 

The Harbour and the Open Seas, 1996, Taipei Fine Arts Museum 

Leigh Li-Yun Wen Prints and Drawings, 1995

STATEMENT

My paintings express my personal and cultural histories. Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, I have a deep affinity for the elemental power of water and the forces of nature. As a Chinese now living in America, I feel the ebb and flow of competing cultures. The ancient philosophies of my homeland, which teach self-discipline and selflessness, collide and mingle with Western notions of ego, alienation, and desire.


My working method is a process of subtraction from darkness to light. I carved into the paint with a stylus to bring forth the individual lines that are the central motif of my work. These lines flow across the canvas in rhythms and frequencies that create depths and swells on the painted surface. Something of the self is lost in the resulting tangle, and then regained, only to be lost again. Simplicity and harmony exist within the chaos of the world.


Color is used to expand the work’s emotional range; my palette is drawn not from appearances but from the lyric and psychic necessities of my art. The uniformity of line, from edge to edge and painting to painting, implies a suppression of the artist’s hand in favor of an objectivity learned from nature. In spite of this, the work remains deeply autobiographical.

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