Ju MING 朱銘 Zhū MÍNG

(1938 – 2023)

One of the great modern Asian sculptors | 1938 born in Japanese colonial Taiwan | 1953 studies wood sculpture | 1959 opens his own studio | 1968 studies contemporary sculpture | 1976 helds his first solo exhibition at the “National Museum of History” in Taipei | 1980s continues to gain international acclaim and exhibits abroad – starts The Living World “family”, which he continues to expand | 1983 attains fame in New York City | late 1990s to early 2000s becomes well known in the West | 1999 “Zhu Ming Art Museum” opens in New Taipei City | 2023 committes suicide