(1910 – 1991)
1910
Born in Henan, China
1920
Started studying painting with his father
1932-24 Studied at the Department of Art, Henan Teachers Normal School
1939
Graduated from National Institute of Art, Hangzhou
Exhibited at the First National Art Exhibition of Fine Arts in Nanjing and won watercolour figure painting prize
1940
Appointed leader of painting, Northwest China Artefacts Survey Group
1941-47 Appointed Head of the Department of Fine Arts, Northwest China Training League
1948
Left China for Taipei
1951-55 Served as Associate Professor of Arts, National Normal University and concurrently at College of Politics and Combat, Taipei, Taiwan
1956
Received a scholarship from the Spanish Government and left Taiwan to study in Madrid
1957
Became a permanent member of the National Art Association of Spain
1958
Toured Paris and Europe for six month and left for New York, USA
1959
Won the Non-Member Award at the 92nd annual exhibition of the American Watercolour Society
1972
Won the Creative Artists Public Service Program Award, New York State
1974
Selected by the Israeli Government to submit 30 works to appear in its educational film “Art Around the World”
1980
Selected by Viyella Fabrics, New York City to provide its colour of the year 1982
Returned to exhibit in Taiwan for the first time since 1965
1984
Established a studio in Taipei
1984-89
Travelled between Taipei and New York
1989
Moved from New York to Hong Kong, then to Chengdu, China, finally to Taiwan
1990
Came to Hong Kong, where he showed his works to Professor Michael Sullivan and Laurance Tam, Curator, Hong Kong Art Museum. He finally settled in Taiwan in November
1991
Died in December in Taiwan
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
1957
Layetanas Galarias, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Sao Paulo, Brazil by special invitation
1959
92nd annual exhibition, American Watercolour society
1966
Stamford Museum, Stamford, USA
1967
Contemporary Galleries, New York City, USA
1968
Contemporary Paintings Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
1970
Solo show, Hemingway Gallery, New York, NY, USA
First International Art Show, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Chinese Artists Group, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA
Atrium Gallery, Port Washington, New York, USA
1971
Norwalk Museum, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
1972
Solo Exhibition, Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
1973
Solo Exhibition, Russell Sage College, Albany, New York, USA
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, USA
1975
Solo Exhibition, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York, USA
1976
Solo Exhibition, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1977
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, New York, USA
“International Artists’ 77” Exhibition, New York, NY, USA
Nassau County Fine Art Museum, Long Island, New York, USA
1978
“Ancient Heritage, New Directions.” New York, NY, USA
1980
Gallery 80, Toronto, Canada
Spring Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1981
Solo Exhibition, Chinese Culture University Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Solo Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1984
Solo Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1985
Solo Exhibition, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
“Modern Chinese Paintings, Abstract Expression of the Brush” Warwick Arts Trust, London, UK
1991
Solo Exhibition, Miao Li Cultural Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
1992
Solo Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, (organised by Alisan Fine Arts with the publication of his monograph), Hong Kong
1993
Solo Exhibition, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
“Chao Chung Hsiang: East-West Synthesis” Gallery 21, Singapore
Tresors Art Fair, Singapore
1994
“The Art of Chao Chung-hsiang,” Godfrey Far Eastern Art, London, UK
“Retrospective Exhibition,” Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Taipei Art Fair, Taiwan
Tresors Art Fair, Singapore
1995
Solo Exhibition, Notices The Gallery, Singapore
Solo Exhibition, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
“Beauty of Abstract Paintings” Lung Men Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
“The Empire of the Dragons: 4000 years of Chinese Art” Aarhus Kunst Museum, Aarhus,Denmark
Tresors Art Fair, Singapore
1995-96
“Twentieth Century Chinese Painting: Tradition and Innovation,” Travelling exhibition: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; The British Museum, London, UK; Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany.
1996
International Asian Art Fair, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
1996-97
“Milieu - Part II,” Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY, USA. In conjunction with this show a Panel discussion on “Abstract Expressionism and its Others” was organised on December 13, 1996.
1997
Solo exhibition “Chinese Roots: Western Approach,” New Vision Gallery, Taiching, Taiwan
“The Fifties – New Visions Of Eastern Abstraction in Paintings by Artists of the Chinese Diaspora,” New Vision Gallery, Taiching, Taiwan
“Chinese Roots: Works from Mainland and Chinese Overseas Artists,” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Chao Collectors’ Club and its Selected Works by Chao,” Colorfield Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Tresors Art Fair, Singapore
1997-99
“Asian Traditions - Modern Expressions,” The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA; Los Angeles Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA; The Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum, Japan; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; Akita Senshu Museum, Japan.
1998
“China 5,000 Years - Innovation and Transformation in the Arts,” Guggeheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
1999
“Pioneers of Chinese Abstraction – New York School: Chao Chung-hsiang, John Way; Paris School: Chu Teh Chun, Zao WouKi,” Asia Art Centre, Taipei; Tainan; Pun Art Gallery, Tainan City; New Age Gallery, Taiching, Taiwan
“Chao Chung-hsiang’s Paintings – a Selection,” Chinese Painting Academy, Shanghai; Inaugural exhibition, Westlake Art Museum of the Jhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou, China
2000
“Beyond the Millenium: Paintings by the Contemporary Master Chao Chung-hsiang,” Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
2004
Chao Chung-hsiang Travelling Exhibition 2004 “Love of the Cosmos: The Art of Chao Chung-hsiang,” Museum of History, Taipei; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum; Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris; Hong Kong Arts Centre
2006
“20th Century Chinese Landscape Painting”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2007
3rd Shanghai Ink Biennial, “Exploration: New Ink Art Shanghai”, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2008
“Hong Kong Art: Open Dialogue Exhibition Series II- New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond”, curated by Mrs Alice King, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
MAJOR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, USA
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USANew York University, New York, NY, USA
Norwalk Museum, Norwalk, CT, USA
Queen’s Museum, New York, NY, USA
Russel Sage College, Albany, NY, USA
Stamford Art Museum, Stamford, CT, USA
Taipei Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
REFERENCES ON CHAO CHUNG HSIANG
•Hebhouse, Janet, “Chao Chung-hsiang at Hemingway,” Arts Magazine, March 1970
•Li, Fa, “About Chao and his art,” Yi Tan, No. 45, December 1971
•Paintings by Chao Chung-hsiang, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton N.Y., 1972
•“An Interview with Chao Chung-hsiang,” Hsiung Shi Art Magazine, May 1973
•Paintings by Chao Chung-hsiang, Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1986
•“Chao Chung-hsiang: A double style of painting,” The Companion Pictorical no. 24, May 1986
•Div. Auth: Chuang Shen, Roger Goepper, Hsiao Chong-ray, Robert Moes, Chao Chung-hsiang, Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, 1992
•Clark, John, “Aspects on Taipei Modernism in the 1980’s,” Orientations, July 1992, pp. 28-36
•Clark, John, China and Chinese Artists Overseas, Asian Artist Interview Transcriptions, vol. 1, Sydney, University of Sydney, 1992
•Li, De, “My View on Chao Chung-hsiang’s Art,” Art of Collection, 1992.8
•Hsiao, Chong-ray, “Chao Chung-hsiang’s Era and His Art” Ming Pao Monthly, October 1992
•Chao Chung-hsiang, Taipei, Cherng Piin Gallery, 1993
•“Chao Chung-hsiang. A Chinese Artists in the Modern International Art Scene,” Jiansu Art Magazine, February, 1993
•Chao Chung-hsiang: A Retrospective Exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan Museum of Art, 1994
•Liu, Yu Hong, “An extraordinary artist and his art,” Art of Collection, 1994.5
•Wang, Wen-Jun, “5,000 Years Back, 5,000 Miles Across, Chao Chung-hsiang, a Romantic Artist,” Art of Collection, 1994.5
•Melikian, Souren, “When East Meets West,” The International Herald Tribune, August 24-25, 1996, p.8
•Packer, William, “Living Tradition from China,” Financial Times, September 7-8, 1996
•Sullivan, Michael, Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1996
•An Absolute Artist: The Artistic World of Chao Chung-hsiang, edited by Katy Chieh, Taipei , Taiwan, 1997. Second edition, Chinese Painting Academy, 1999 with introduction by the Director of the Academy
•Div. Auth: Jeffrey Wechsler, Lang Shao-jun, Jeffrey Hantover, Chao Chung Hsiang, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 1997
•Chao Collectors’ Club and its Selected works by Chao – Symposium and Exhibition: Chao Collectors’ Club, Tapei, Taiwan, 1997
•Essays on Chao Chung-hsiang,Chieh Hsieh En (Katy Chieh) ed., China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, September 1999
•Pan Yao-chang, Beyond the Babel (Chinese version), Renmin University of China Press, Beijing, China, 2004, P.297 – 303
•Wang Yung, Transplantation and Variation, Renmin University of China Press, Beijing, China, 2004, P.43, 172 – 174
•2oth Century Chinese Landscape Painting, Shanghai Art Press, Shanghai, China, 2006, P.192-193
SYMPOSIA
1995
The Dimension Art Centre in Taiwan organised two symposia on Chao’s work, entitled: Eastern Philosophy, Western Language. The following lectures were given:
11 May 1995, Taipei, Taiwan
Prof. Chuang Shen, The Influence of the Modern European and American Schools on Chao’s art
Lui Kuo Sung, The East/West Exchanges and their Influences on Chao’s Work
Jiang Yi Dao, Looking At Chao’s Artistic Life Through the Development of Modern Art.
Guo Bai Zhou, The Art of My Teacher and its Components
15 July 1995, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chang Kun Yuan, A Harmonious Look at East and West painting in the Context of Modern Art.
1997
December, Colorfield Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan: Chao Collectors’ Club and its Selected Works by Chao
1999
22 November -5 December, As part of the centenary celebrations of Lin Feng-mien organised by the China Academy of Art, the Chinese Painting Academy, Shanghai in conjunction with the inaugural exhibition: Chao Chung Hsiang (1910-1991): A Selection of his Paintings
2004
The Art of Chao Chung-hsiang
16 April, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
8 May, Shanghai Art Museum
9 October, Hong Kong Arts Centre
