Chu Teh-chun was born in Jiangsu Province, China.  During his youth, he studied calligraphy.
1935 
Chu entered the National College of Arts in Hangzhou, directed by Lin Fengmian.  He intended to study traditional Chinese ink painting, but the department had not yet been established, and so he studied watercolour and oil painting.
1941 
Chu graduated with excellent results and was immediately appointed as Assistant Tutor in the College.
1947 
Chu travelled through the Yangtze gorges.  The breathtaking views made him think of the works of the Tang & Sung masters and caused him to reflect on the relationship between art and nature.
1949 
Chu left Nanjing for Taipei.
1950 
He was appointed professor in the Department of Architecture at the Taipei School of Industry.
1951 
Chu taught at the National Taiwan Normal University in the Fine Arts Department.
1955 
Left for France.  Following the River Nile, he reached Cairo where he had the first contact with Egyptian art, a great fascination for him.  After a month’s voyage, he arrived in Paris, attended drawing classes at the Academy Grande Chaumière where he met the artist Pan Yuliang.
1956 
Chu viewed paintings of Nicholas de Stael at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris that stimulated him to meditate on non-figurative forms of expression.
1958 
Chu had his first one-man exhibition in Paris at the Haut Pavé Gallery.
1969 
He was invited to the Tenth Biennale in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where his works were displayed in an entire room.
1979 
Hubert Juin, a French writer, poet, art critic as well as a critic for the 19th Century French Literature, published a book on the art of Chu in the Pocket Museum series.
1980 
Chu obtained French nationality.
1982 
The Andre Malraux Museum in Le Havre organised a major retrospective of Chu’s works executed after 1955.
1983 
Chu acted as an external examiner for the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He was also invited by the Union of Chinese Artists to undertake a cultural tour of China.  In Hangzhou he visited his alma mater as well as his brother whom he had not seen for thirty years.
1987 
A major retrospective was organised at the National Museum of History in Taipei.
1992 
Chu did a lithograph for the Olympic Games Centenary.
1993 
In March, the Cercle d’Art published a large volume edited by Pierre Cabanne devoted to the works of Chu. 
1995 
In the context of the “Manif 95” Chu exhibited at the Art Center in Seoul.  In the course of the year Chu participated in 13 group exhibitions.
1997 
In recognition of his contribution to painting, Chu was elected to membership in the Institute de France, Academie des Beaux Arts.
1999 
He was formally inducted into l’Institute de France, Academie des Beaux-Arts.

MAJOR ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
1954  
Zhongshan Tang, Taipei, Taiwan
1958  
Le Haut Pavé Gallery, Paris
1960  
Legendre Gallery, Paris
1962  
Baier Gallery, Mainz, Germany
1965  
Latzer Gallery, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
1969  
Roger Le Grall Gallery, Paris
1970  
Royal Luxembourg Gallery, Nice
1972  
Mikeldi Gallery, Bilbao, Spain
1973  
Horn Gallery, Luxembourg
1978  
Saint-Etienne Cultural Centre, France.
1982 
Paintings and drawings, retrospective 1955-1982, André Malraux Fine Arts Museum, Le Havre, France
1984  
Large exhibition at the Municipal Theater, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
1986  
Hong Kong Institute for the Promotion of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong
1987  
Retrospective exhibition, National Museum of History, Taiwan
1988  
Museum of Modern Art, Liège, Belgium
Travelling exhibition in 14 departmental and municipal cultural centres, and the Taiwan Museum of Art
1991 
Large scale paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dunkerque, France
1994 
Municipal Gallery, Vitry, France, with catalogue prefaced by Raoul-Jean Moulin
1994 
Trigano Gallery, Paris, France.  Chu signed the Cercle d’Art Volume by Pierre Cabanne
1997  
Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
1997-98 
Travelling exhibition featuring works from 1985-96 jointly organised by l’Association Française d’Action Artistique, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France and the museums being visited.  Venues included the National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, and the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
1998 
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
1999 
Alisan Fine Arts, “Of Poetry and Music,” works in ink on paper
2000 
Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
Shanghai Museum, China
2001 
Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2002 
Galerie Darga, Bali, Indonesia
Angel Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2004  
Macao Museum of Art, Macau, China
La Malmaison
University of Hong Kong Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2005  
Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France
J. Bastien Art Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium
Shanghai Art Museum, China
2007 
3rd Shanghai Ink Biennial, “Exploration: New ink Art Shanghai”, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Ueno no Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China 2007, Central Library, Hong Kong
2008  
Chu Teh-chun 88 Retorspective, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
Lavis, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
BELGIUM
Museum of Contemporary Art, Liège
CHINA
Shanghai Opera House, Shanghai
FRANCE
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque
Musée Bertrand, Chateauroux
Musée de Pierrefeu, Nice
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Maison de la Culture de la Société des Eaux, Marseille
SWITZERLAND
Olympic Museum, Lausanne
TAIWAN
National Museum of History, Taipei
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei
Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung
Hou Centing Cultural Eduction Foundation, Taipei
Dimensions Art Foundation, Taipei
USA
Art Collection, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO