1955
Born in Taipei, Taiwan
Current lives in Taipei, Taiwan

Work Experience and Education
1997
Created the work Record of a Child’s Garden Visual for Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium in Guilin, China
1986
Created the stonework Leisurely Times in Shin-Shen Park in Taipei
1985
Created the stonework Miner Hero, installed in Chiang Kai Shek Park. Established an art center, shadow-play theater and ceramics studio
1981
Traveled China, especially important historical areas of Han Culture
1977-80
Produced sketches in the park. Known as a premier street painter in Taiwan. Studied puppet shadow-play theater
1975-77
Traveled Taiwan during two years of military service
1971-75
Learned to paint with Chen Yigeng
1968-70
Learned woodblock printing
1966
Self-taught clay sculpture

Solo Exhibitions
2004
Yu Peng Paintings and Pottery, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong.
2001
Pure, Exotic, Archaic and Strange, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
Providence University Art Center, Taipei
1999
Landscape of Desire, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei
1998
Yu Peng’s One Man Show, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
A Modern Odyssey, Kaikodo, New York
1995
Ceramics, Yu Peng, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1994
Yu Peng’s World of Innocence and Alienation, National Tsing Hua University Art Center, Taiwan
Western Material, Chinese Feelings, Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei
Yu Peng’s Style, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
1993
Doors Art Space, Kaoshiung
Gallery Yung, Munich
Five Women, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
River Art Center, Taichung
1992
Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
Yu Peng’s Space, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
1991
Rural Pleasure, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
Asian Art Center, Towson State University, Maryland, USA
Between Water and Mountain, Shinkong-Mitsukoshi Department Store, Taipei
1990
Wishara Teahouse, Taipei
King Stone Gallery, Taichung
Hanart Gallery, New York
1989
Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
Hanart 2 Gallery, Hong Kong
1988
Solo Ceramics Exhibition, Tien Mu Pottery House, Taipei
Hanart 2 Gallery, Hong Kong
Hanart Gallery, New York
1986
First solo exhibition in Hong Kong
1985
Artist Gallery, Taipei
1983
Chien Chu Gallery, Taipei
1981
first exhibition in Athens, Greece
1980
Chiu Yuan Gallery, Taipei

Group Exhibitions
2000
Shanghai Biennial 2000, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1999
Vision of Pluralism: Contemporary Art in Taiwan, 1988-1999, National Art Gallery, Beijing
1998
On the Edge of Traditional, Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei
1997-99
Tracing Taiwan, the Drawing Center, New York; the Parrish Art Museum, Long Island; the Santa Barbara, Contemporary Arts Forum, California and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1996-99
Reckoning with the Past, touring exhibition in Edinburgh, Portugal and New Zealand
1996
Dancing with Art Utensils: A Dialogue Between Life and Future Creation, Color Field Art Space, Taipei
Singapore Art, the Cicada Gallery, Singapore
Taipei Biennial, the Quest for Identity, Identity and Memories, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1995
Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Museum of Modern Art, Sydney
Other-Distance, Studio Aperto/Associazione Culturale per la Promzione dell’Arte in Europe, Rome, Italy
1994
Man and Earth, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado, USA; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1993
Leningrad Museum, USSR
Up Gallery, Kaohsiung
Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
1992
K-18 Exhibition, Kassel, Germany
Seoul, Korea
Stonework Group Show, Chieh-Shan Tan, Taipei
1991
Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
1986
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
1984
Pai Chia Gallery, Taipei
San Tsai Art Center, Taipei
Art Gallery, Taipei
1982
Shang Ya Gallery, Taipei