Silent Hill – Barren
Concealed Crack
Island – Frontier
Recollection of Island
Dusty Memories
The Sky
1968 Born in Tainan City, Taiwan
Now Chinese painting and calligraphy artist, teaching at Taipei National University of Arts, School of Fine Arts and Tunghai University, Department of Fine Arts.
Educational Background and Experience
2012- Full-time Associate Professor of Taipei National University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts
2007- Full-time Assistant Professor and Associate Professor and part-time Associate Professor of Tunghai University, Department of Fine Arts
2006 Part-time Assistant Professor of Tunghai University, Department of Fine Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, Department of Art History and Providence University, Chinese Literature Department
2004-2006 Part-time lecturer of Tainan National University of the Arts, Department of Art History
2000 Lecture of bachelor degree credit course of Tunghai University with National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
1998-2006 Part-time lecture of Tunghai University, Department of Fine Arts and Providence University, Chinese Literature Department
1998 Graduated from Tunghai University Art Theory Graduate School
1993 Graduated from National Institute of the Arts in Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2017 The Realm of Silence – Ink Painting by Wu, Chi-tao, Moon Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan)
2011 The Elegy for Doom, Tunghai University Art Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan)
2010 Frontiers beyond the World / Solo of Wu, Chi-tao, Moon Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan)
2009 Frontiers of Island – Overture, Soochow University Arts Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
2008 Wu, Shi-Wei and Wu, Chi-tao Double Solo Exhibition, Sincewell Gallery, (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
2006 Pu, Tzu ‧ Wu, Chi-tao Double Solo Exhibition, Arithis Fine Art (Taichung, Taiwan)
2005 Floating Island – Wu, Chi-tao Album of Ink Painting Exhibition, The Mayor’s Residence Art Salon (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tunghai University Library (Taichung, Taiwan)
2003 Wu, Chi-tao Album of Painting Exhibition, Arithis Fine Art (Taichung, Taiwan)
2001 Barren Rock ‧ floating Island – a Poem without Words, Tunghai University Art Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan)
2000 Endless Desolation, Providence University Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
1999 Desolation, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Dreamland of Diaspora – The Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Ink Paintings, Yilan Museum of Art (Yilan, Taiwan)
Liberal Arts and the Literati – Ink Painting and Gouache Painting at Tunghai University, National Museum of History (Taipei, Taiwan)
Voice of Asia 2016, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
Boundless Vision: New Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
2015 2014 National Ink Painting Exhibition by University Professors, Zhong Zheng Art Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan) / Dadun Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan) / Tainan Municipal Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan)
2014 Chinese painting and calligraphy from Chongming and Taiwan Artists Exhibition, Chongming Fine Arts Museum (Shanghai, China)
Yes, Taiwan – 2014 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
Fragments Refining – Variable and Invariable of Contemporary Art, National Chao Tung University Arts Center (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
2013 30 Years in Arts and Ink Painting of Tunghai, Tunghai University Art Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan)
The 6th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Exhibition Center, (Chengdu, China)
Majestic Island – The Development of Modern Art in Taiwan (1911-2011), China Art Museum (Shanghai, China) / National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China)
2012 Beyond Gazing / Communication with the Permanent Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
2012 International Ink Painting Exhibition, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Yat-sen Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
2011 The 34th Wu San-Lien Awards Exhibition, Ambassador Hotel (Taipei, Taiwan)
Joint Exhibition of Art Professors from Taichung City – A Centennial Effort of Education, Taichung City Seaport Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
2011 Taiwan Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Municipality of Athens (Athens, Greece)
Scenery and Vistas of Taiwan through the Eyes of Artists – A Century of Taiwanese Landscape and Scenic Art , National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
2009 The New Aspect 2009 – Exhibition of Contemporary Cross Strait Ink Paintings, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
2008 Southern Traveler – Lee Yih-Hong, Hsu Yu-Jen, Pu Tzu and Wu Chi-tao, Licence Art Gallery (Tainan, Taiwan) / Cao Shan Dong Men Art Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
2007 Dare to Art – The Genealogy of TNAUA Fine Arts College, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, Taiwan)
Open FUN: 2007 Taipei International Modern Calligraphy Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
2006 Ink Transformation – Modern Ink Painting in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
2005 2005 Kuandu Extravaganza Exhibition of Modern Art in Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, Taiwan)
The Dialogue of Contemporary Ink and Literati Aesthetics, Tunghai University Art Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan) / The-Chun Art Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
2004 Ink Painting in Taiwan 2004, Cultural Affairs Department, New Taipei City Government (Taipei, Taiwan)
New Trend of Contemporary – Taiwan Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition (Qingdao, Sichuan and Chengdu, China)
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy – Pulp and Paper: Joint Exhibition of Six Artists, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (Taipei, Taiwan)
2003 New Trend of Contemporary 2004, Yat-sen Gallery of National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
Ink Painting in Taiwan 2003, Xi Zhi Tang (Taipei, Taiwan)
2002 Fuchan Artists Joint Exhibition, Tainan Municipal Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan)
Ink Painting in Taiwan 2002, Taichung City Seaport Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
2001 Fuchan Artists Joint Exhibition, Tainan Municipal Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan)
Spot-Line-Area of Calligraphy, Dadun Cultural Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
10+10=21 Taipei-Taichung, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
The 21st Century Modern Ink Painting Society Joint Exhibition, Yat-sen Gallery of National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
The 3rd Modern Ink Painting of R.O.C, National Taiwan Arts Education Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
Millennium Aura – Abstraction and Nature Quartet, Hong-gah Museum (Taipei, Taiwan) / Taichung City Seaport Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
2000 The Interpretation of Ink Painting – Chan, Ky-yut and Wu, Chi-tao Joint Exhibition, Taichung City Seaport Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
Modern Ink Painting Exhibition – The 21st Century Ink Painting Society, National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan) / Miaoli County Cultural Center (Miaoli, Taiwan)
Visions of Pluralism – Contemporary Art in Taiwan 1988-1999, Mountain Arts, Culture, and Education Foundation, National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China) / Mountain Arts Museum (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) / National Museum of History (Taipei, Taiwan) / National Chao Tung University Arts Center (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
1998 Soul‧Nature – Five Artists of Tunghai, Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation Art Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
Prosperous bleakness – Wu, Shi-We and Wu,Chi-tao Ink Painting Exhibition, Xi Zhi Tang (Taipei, Taiwan)
Art Taipei 1998, (Taipei, Taiwan)
The 2nd Modern Ink Painting of R.O.C, National Taiwan Arts Education Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
Exhibition Curated
2016 The Generations of Chinese Ink & Multiple Tracks, Sincewell Gallery (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
2015 Endless Roaming – Ni Tsai-chin, Lin & Lin Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
2013 Paper Arts of Taiwan‧Taiwan in Ink, Golden Aries Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan) / Show Gallery (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
2012 Between the Transit and Transformation – the Changes of Traditional and Contemporary Ink Painting, Golden Aries Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
Cultural Migration & Transformation, Golden Aries Art Center (Taichung, Taiwan)
2008 Here Comes Spring, Tunghai University Art Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan)
2007 The Force of Cursive Script, Academia Sinica Institute of History and Philosophy Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
Artists’ Dazzling World, Moon Gallery (Taichung, Taiwan)
2006 A Century of the Beginning and the Sprout of Taiwan Calligraphy, Shin Kong Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
Humanity in Contemporary‧Contemporary Literati in Ink Painting and Calligraphy I and II, Sincewell Gallery (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
2004 Begin Again‧ the Thought of Contemporary Ink Culture II, NHCUE Art Space (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
2003 Begin Again‧ the Thought of Contemporary Ink Culture I, NHCUE Art Space (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
2000 The Manuscript, Choreographer: Chan Chiu-yin, Installation Curator: Wu, Chi-tao, Crown Arts Center Theater (Taipei, Taiwan)
Publications
2010 Jiang Zhao-shen – Contemporary Taiwanese Ink Painting Series. (Taipei, Taiwan, Artist Publishing Co.)
2004 Taiwan Modern Art Series. (Taipei, Taiwan, Artist Publishing Co.)
2002- Wu, Chi-tao have published about 50 art criticism.
Portfolios
2017 The Realm of Silence – Ink Painting by Wu, Chi-tao. (Taichung, Taiwan, Moon Gallery)
2001 The Elegy for Doom / Ink Painting by Wu, Chitao. (Taichung, Taiwan, Tunghai University Art Gallery)
2010 Frontiers beyond the World / Solo of Wu, Chi-tao. (Taichung, Taiwan, Moon Gallery)
2005 The Suspension Island. (Taichung, Taiwan, Vanity Press)
2003 The Clouds and Mists by Wu, Chi-tao (Taichung, Taiwan, Shen Jing Zhai)
2001 Barren Rock ‧ floating Island – a Poem without Word. (Taichung, Taiwan, Tunghai University Art Gallery)
2000 The Endless Barren Rock. (Taichung, Taiwan, Providence University Art Center)
Public Collections
2015 〔Floating Island Album〕White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney, Australia)
2014 〔The Scripture of Mountains and Seas〕National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
2010 〔Island Frontier〕Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
〔Frontiers ‧ Memory〕Show Gallery (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
2008 〔The Landscape and the Steep Rock of Taiwan〕National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
2005 〔The Collapse of Rocks〕, 〔Seas and Rocks Painting Album〕, 〔Lone Island Painting Album〕, 〔Object Chants Fan Album〕I-Mei Foundation for Arts & Education (Taipei, Taiwan)
2000 〔Barren Area〕Shin Kong Wu Foundation (Taipei, Taiwan)
1999 〔Vortex〕Taipei Tunghua Rotary Club (Taipei, Taiwan)
1998 〔Dry Green〕Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation Art Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
Awards and Grants
2011 Winner of The 34th Edition of “Wu San-Lien Awards” in Chinese painting
2003 〔The Study of Barren cold ‧ Lone Area Album〕No.92-2Full Grants of National Culture and Arts Foundation
1999 〔The Landscape and Mood Series〕No.88-3 Full Grants of National Culture and Arts Foundation
Winner of The 2nd Edition of “Tunghua Rotary Award”