LEE Kuang-Yu
Lee Kuang-Yu was born in 1954 in Taiwan. In the early 1970s, he entered the Department of Sculpture of the National Institute of the Arts (predecessor of the National Taiwan University of Arts). Following graduation in 1975, he went to Spain to study western sculptural technique and theory in Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Universidad Complutense de Madrid respectively, studying with celebrated sculptor Francisco Toledo Sanchez and received his master degree. On returning to Taiwan, he taught at the Taipei National University of the Arts and the National Taiwan University of Arts, retiring in 2006 to devote himself to his work.
Lee Kuang-Yu’s creations crosses cultural and historical boundaries, representing a cultural marker in which traditional Buddhist and Daoist thought intertwines with modernism. His work cannot be assigned to any usual stylistic category. Instead, his works create a unique language with his incomparable skill, style and materials which in turn embodies the complex nature of Taiwanese art while representing the essence of Taiwanese culture. On the level of sculptural language, his work opens up the enclosed structure of sculpture with his characteristic techniques. It creates the unique form, style, and concept of the “void,” and demonstrates “the concept of silent void in the Oriental culture” that embodies the state of unifying the object and the self. It not only displays aesthetic values but also reveals the artist’s contemplation on the state of life at that moment, conveying contemporary social implications.
Curriculum Vitae
LEE Kuang-Yu (1954-)
1954 Born in Nei-Wei, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1975 Graduated from Sculpture Department of National Academy of the Arts, Taiwan
1982 Graduated from Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Spain
1983 M.F.A, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
1984~2006 Professor of Department of Fine Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
2000~2006 Professor of Department of Fine Art, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
2006~Now Retire from TNUA & NTUA. Currently active as an artist.
Solo Exhibition
1981 Spain Fall Salón, Spain
1982 Spain Coin and Relief Design Exhibition, National Mint of Spain, Spain
1988 The 3th Asia Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1992 First Solo Exhibition, Leisure Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1995 Austria Graz International Sculpture Craft Workshop Exhibition, Graz, Austria
1999 Volume & Form, Andres Contemporary Art Pte Lte, Singapore
2009 Life, Illusion of Bodies, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Life, Illusion of Bodies, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2012 Moving In, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Mind Space, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Red Pine, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 128 Art Street, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Atmospheric – Between Stir and Still, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Mountain．Emptiness, Chini Galley, Taipei, Taiwan.
2014~2015 A Symphonic Concoction: Sculpting Art in Taiwan in the 1980s, Juming Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Open 18. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Piazzale S. M. Elisabetta & Blue Moon Square & Hilton Molino Stucky Hotel, Venice, Italy
The Moment-The Taiwanese Art Project, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
2016 Skein of Heaven – Solo Exhibition of LEE Kuang-Yu, Tainan, Taiwan
2017 The 57th Venice Biennale : To Have and Have Not – the Solo Exhibition of LEE KUANG-YU, Palazzo Rota Ivancich , The National Pavilion of San Marino, Venice, Italy
To Have and Have Not: A Simultaneous Exhibition with the Venice Biennale by LEE KUANG-YU, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
To Have and Have Not: A Simultaneous Exhibition with the Venice Biennale by LEE KUANG-YU, Remarkable Cultivation Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2018 Space, Poetry and People: Art of Lee Kuang-Yu, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2020 A Sculptor’s Secret Garden, Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Also sprach Lee Kuang-Yu, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Also sprach Lee Kuang-Yu, Remarkable Cultivation Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2020-2021 A Sculptor’s Secret Garden, Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Collection
1980 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1991 Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1994 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
1995 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2000 National Taiwan University of Arts
2001 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
2017 Tainan Art Museum
2018 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
2020 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Public Art
1995 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
1998 Public Art of NTU Hospital MRT Station, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Public Art of Civic Blvd., Taipei, Taiwan
2000 National Taiwan University of Arts, New Taipei, Taiwan
2001 Public Art of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Taiwan
2001 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, New Taipei, Taiwan
2005 Public Art of National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2010 Structure of Farglory, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Structure of Farglory, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Utek International Constructers & Planners, Taipei, Taiwan
Syuan Tai Development Group, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Fully Development Group, Tainan, Taiwan
2017 Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2018 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan