Lin Chuan-Chu was born in a small rural village in 1963. B.F.A. in Chinese painting, Chinese Cultural University; graduate certificate program of M. A. in art history, Fine Arts Academy of China, Beijing, China; M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College,Vermont, U.S.A. Invited Visiting Artist of Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Invited artist in residency program of Red Gate Gallery in Beijing in 2006. President full-time artist and assistant professor at Tunghai University.Through the various media from painting, land art projects, performance, animation to writing, LIN Chuan-Chu found a complex yet complete interdisciplinary art inwardness to inquire into the nature of the flow within existence. Composed of nature, farming, literati culture as well as awareness of Buddhism, his creations constructed “A Man’s History”which is a complicated, authentic and separated being, attempting to unearth the shared themes lying in his family and the whole society at the time.

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