Shore of the Ice Lake

A contemporary of Liu Kuo-sung and member of the Fifth Moon Group, Chuang Che was born into a scholarly family in 1934 in Beijing. He was introduced to art at a young age by his father Chuang Shan-Yen, a renowned academic and calligrapher who served as the vice director of the Palace Museum in Taipei. At the National Taiwan Normal University, Chuang studied under Chu Teh-Chun who profoundly influenced his pursuit of abstraction in his artistic practice. In 1966, Chuang was awarded a travel grant by the J.D. Rockefeller III Fund to study and travel in the United States and Europe, and has settled in New York since 1988. Chuang’s works are deeply connected with nature. His unrestricted use of expressive lines from Chinese landscape painting and the bright colours of European abstract painting recreate the landscape he sees.