Wu Meng-Chang

Biography

Wu Meng-Chang's work is visualization of the observation and awareness of life's experiences, as well as a process of self-fulfillment. Every facet and trace of the work reveals a delicate and sincere sculptural language. It is not only the trajectory of creative accumulation over a long period of time, but also recrods the artist's insights into life, as the artist said, “Each moment of inner essence is a manifestation and projection of multiple consciousnesses, not merely a continuation in time, but also an exploration etched into the soul. In the boundless expanse of time and space, each fragment pulls and merges with the others, gradually connecting to form a complete and profound existence.” The conscious perception that is embedded in it is an imprint of the past and a reflection of the present.

Wu Meng-Chang, born in Kaohsiung in 1971, lives and creates in Tainan. Graduated from Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts of Tainan National University of the Arts. His significant awards including the first Hsiao Chin Creation Award, 2018; Kaohsiung City 17th Art Exhibition, Kaohsiung Award, 2000; National Public Art for Shining Building Institution and Italy Pietrasanta Sculpture Competition, first award, 1997. Selected solo exhibitions include: Fragment, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2024; Within Light and Shadow, Live Forever Foundation Lufu Zhishen Hall, Taichung, Taiwan, 2022; In Between, Hsiao Chin International Art Foundation, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2019. Group exhibitions include: Profoundly Faceted: Debates on Contemporary Art in Tainan, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan, 2024; 2023 Hualien International Stone Sculpture Festival, Hualien County Stone Sculpture Museum, Hualien, Taiwan, 2023; Śūnyatā_Being at Liberty, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2022; Super Spontaneous Chi: A Route 119 South Villagers' Exhibition, Da Xin Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan, 2020; Next Art Tainan, Soka Art, Tainan, Taiwan, 2020; Art is Here, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2019; The Story of Contemporary Art in Tainan, Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan, 2017; Contemporary Taiwan: An Exhibition of Abstract Art Classics, Yun Feifan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan, 2016; New Aspects in Contemporary Stone Sculpture, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Nantou, Taiwan, 2016.