Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Ju Ming 朱銘  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

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朱銘  pinyin  Zhu Ming

1938

Ju Ming  朱銘 was born on January 20, in Miaoli, Taiwan.

 

He was the eleventh children of his family.

   

1951

At 13 years old, he quitted school to work in a local small shop.

   

1953

He did training during three years and four month with the woodcarver

 

Lee chin-Chuan specialized in in statuary for Buddhist temples.

   

1957

He was nominated a master craftsman.

   

1959

He moved toTungshiao and opened his own workshop and recruited apprentices..

 

He worked with wood but also uses bronze, ceramic, steel.

 

He sold his sculptures in Taipei, Keelung and Kaohsiung.

   

1961

He married Chen Fu-Mei, a young woman from his hometown whom he represented

 

in his sculpture: a girl playing with the sand.

 

Due to the lack of business knowledges, his company went bankrupt

 

and he decided to devote himself entirely to his profession as an artist.

   

1966

He received the Award Sculpture at Art Taiwan 21.

   

1968

He became a student of Yuyu Yangqui who taught him modern sculpture,

 

during eight years.

   

1976

His first exhibition at the National Museum of History was a success

 

and secured his reputation.

   

1977

He exhibited at Central Museum inTokyo.

 

His Taichi woodcarvings series won critical acclaim in Japan.

   

1980

He left his wife and children to move to the United States.

 

He settled in New York where he created his series Living World.

 

During his first exhibition at Max Huchinson gallery in New York, all his works.

 

are sold.

   
 

Therefore, his fame became international : Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong,

 

Japan,  but also the United Kingdom and France.

   

1987

To store his work, he planned to build a museum in Chinshan, Northern Taiwan.

 

It took him twelve years to complete it.

   

2000

He added 20 new sculptures : Taichi Arch to complete his Taichi series.

   

2002

Cercle d'Art Editions published a catalog of Ju Ming sculpture’s in Europe

 

and in the United States.

   

2005

He exposed Living world series - Armed forces works, 300 sculptures commemorating

 

the battles of the war..

   

2007

He was the winner of the 18th Fukuoka Asian Culture Award.

   
  He lives and works in Taiwan.
   
  Ju Ming committed suicide 22.04 2023, at the age of 85.
   
 

Danièle Sicard

   


   
 

exhibitions  selection

   

1976

National History Museum Taipei  Taiwan

1977

Tokyo Central Museum  Japan

1978

Spring Gallery Taipei  Taiwan

1980

Art Centre Hong Kong  China

1981

National History Museum Taipei  Taiwan

1981

Max Hutchinson Gallery New York  United States

1983

Max Hutchinson Gallery New York  United States

1984

Ayala Museum Manilla Philippines

1986

Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art Bangkok  Thailand

1986

Max Hutchinson Gallery New York  United States

1986

Exchange Square Hong Kong  China

1986

History Museum Singapour  Singapore

1987

National Museum of Fine Arts Taipei  Taiwan

1988

National Museum of Fine Arts Taichung  Taiwan

1989

Phyllis Kind Gallery New York  United States

1991

Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store Taipei  Taiwan

1991

Art Centre Hong Kong  China

1991

South Bank centre London  United Kingdom

1991

Browses & Darby Gallery London  United Kingdom

1991

Contemporary Art Museum Dunkerque France

1993

Mitsukoshi Department Store in Shinjuku Tokyo  Japan

1994

Glory Sculpture Park Hsinchu  Taiwan

1994

Open-Air Museum Hakone  Japan

1997

Place Vendôme Paris  France

2004

Museum of Fine Arts Gifu  Japan

2004

Singapore Art Museum  Singapore

2005

National Museum of Fine ArtsTaichung  Taiwan

2005

Office of Municipal Affairs Macao  Macao

2005

Living World Series - the armed forces Taipei  Taiwan

2006

National Art Museum Beijing  China

2006

National Art Museum Beijing  China

2009

Living World Series -Scientist National Museum of Natural Science Taipei  Taiwan

2012

Foire Internationale d'Art Hong Kong  China

2014

28.02 15.06 Ju Ming sculpting the living world Hong Kong Museum Hong Kong  China
  -  Ju Ming Museum Jinshan Taipei  Taiwan
   


 
 

Ju Ming  朱銘

 
 

Ju Ming  朱銘

 
 


Books, catalogues, articles on Ju Ming and his work could be alone  
the object of a publication. - selection.

       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - Ceramics

 

朱 銘 : 陶塑

 
 

Ju Ming: Ceramics

 
  texts  Ju Ming  Stephen Westfall    
  R.Scott Lloyd  John Chao  
 

in chinese in english

 
     
       
       
       

 Ju Ming 朱銘

 

朱銘油畫

Ju Ming Culture

 

Ju Ming

Education Foundation

  text  Ju Ming  
  Style Resides in the Heart  
 

in chinese in english 

 
  58 p  
     
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - Ju Ming Sculptures - Volume One - The Living World 1986

 

朱銘雕刻 - 雕刻系列之1:人間

Yifengtang

 

Ju Ming Sculptures - Sculpture Series :

Chubanshe

 

Volume One - The Living World

1986
 

texts  Findlay-Brown Ian - Shiang Yun

 
 

in english in chinese         

 
  104 p  
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘

 

朱銘雕刻:媽祖出巡

Jin Ling Art Centre

  text  Lin Hsinchin 1988
  in chinese  
  12 p  
     
     
     
     
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘

 

朱銘畫冊: 人間系列

Jinling Art Center

 

Ju Ming Paintings 1988

1989
  texts  Chu Ko Wang Manping    
  in english in chinese  
  36 p  
     
     
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 6 Sculptures - Sculpture series

 

朱銘雕刻 - 雕刻系列之2:人間 (三姑六婆)

 
 

Ju Ming Sculptures - Sculpture series :

 
 

Volume Two - The Living World

 
  text  Shiang yun  
  in chinese in english  
  82 p  
     
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - Taichi in Wood

 

朱銘木太極

Hanart 2 Gallery and

 

Ju Ming: Taichi in Wood

Frog Publishing

  text  Johnson Tsongzung Chang 1991
  in chinese in english  
  58 p  
     
     
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - Monde vivant : Sport

 

Ju Ming

Musée d'Art
 

Monde Vivant: Sport

Contemporain
  catalogue de l'exposition au Musée d'Art Dunkerque
  Contemporain de Dunkerque 1991
  préfaced  by G. Delaine  
  in french  
     
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - The Ballerina Series

 

芭蕾舞系列:朱銘作品展

Hanart TZ Gallery

 

Ju Ming: The Ballerina Series

1993
 

catalogue de l'exposition à Hanart TZ Gallery

 
  in chinese in english  
  12 p  
     
       
       
       
   

朱銘雕刻 - 雕刻系列之3:人間 ( 不銹鋼雕刻 )

 
 

Ju Ming Sculptures - Sculpture series :

1993
 

Volume Three - The Living World

 
  text  John Taylor  
  60 p  
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘

 

朱銘雕刻

 
 

Ju Ming

 
  text  Johnson Tsongzung Chang  
  Ju Ming and Modern Chinese Sculpture  
  in chinese in english  
     
     
     
       
       
       
   

朱銘畫集

Ju Ming Museum

 

Ju Ming

Foundation

  in chinese

and Kalos Gallery

  84 p  
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming - small bronze sculptures

 

Ju Ming

Hanart TZ Gallery

 

small bronze sculptures

1995

 

catalogue of the exhibition Hanart TZ Gallery

 
  in chinese in english  
     
     
     
     
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘

 

 

朱 銘

 
 

Ju Ming 1995-6

1996
  catalogue de l'exposition à Kalos gallery Taipei  
  en chinois, en anglais  
     
     
     
     
       

藝術大師朱銘 : 刻畫人生 par Yang Mengyu

 

藝術大師朱銘:刻畫人生

天下遠見出版

 

Yang Mengyu

1997
  en chinois  
 

337 p

 
 

isbn  9576213983

 
     
     
     
     
     
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - Place Vendôme

  Ju Ming : Place Vendôme 1997
  in french in english  
  29 cm x 25 cm  
  148 p  
     
     
     
     
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘

 

 

朱銘

 
  Ju Ming

1998

 

catalogue of the exhibition 03.12 97 16.01 1998

 
 

Paris place Vendôme

 
  in french in english in chinese  
  25 cm x 15 cm  
  unpaginated  
     
     
     
       

種活藝術的種子: 朱銘美學觀 Ju Ming on Art

 

 

種活藝術的種子:朱銘美學觀

Commonwealth

 

Ju Ming on Art

Publishing Co Ltd

  author  Pan Hsiuyu

1999

  in chinese  
 

282 p

 
 

isbn  9576215714

 
     
     
     
     
     
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - Luxembourg / Luxemburg

 

  Ju Ming : Luxembourg / Luxemburg

1999

  commissaire : Hervé Odermatt

 

 

in german in english

 
  29 cm x 25 cm  
  76 p

 

     
     
     
     
     
     

Jean Luc Chalumeau - Ju Ming

 

Jean-Luc Chalumeau : Ju Ming

Cercle d'Art
 

30 cm x 25 cm

2002
 

in french

 
  isbn : 2 7022 0661 1  
  206 p         
     
     
     
     
     
     
       
       

朱銘雕刻 - Ju Ming

 

朱銘雕刻

Ju Ming Culture

 

Ju Ming

Education Foundation

  texts  Pan Hsiuyu  Ju Ming   2002
  Johnson Tsongzung Chang  Cheng Huemei  
  in english in chinese  
  67 p  
 

isbn  986-80266-1-X

 
       
       
       

Ju Ming - Berlin - 2003

  Ju Ming : Berlin Galeries Enrico
  catalogue of the exhibition 24.06 to 31.10 2003 Navarra
 

29 cm x 24,5 cm

Odermatt-Vedovi
 

in german in english

2003
  64 p  
     
     
     
     
     
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘

 

 

朱銘

2004
  Ju Ming  
  Singapore Art Museum  
 

28 cm x 21,5 cm

 
 

in english in chinese

 
  144 p  
  isbn  981 05 1251 1  
     
       

九十三年行政院文化獎簡介

 

九十三年行政院文化獎簡介

The Executive Yuan

 

Executive Yuan Culture Awards 2004 :

of the Republic

 

Honoree Profile: Ju Ming

of China

  in chinese

Taipei

  12 p  
     
     
     
     
     
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘 - Taichi Sculpture

 

 

朱銘: 太極雕塑

The National Art

 

Ju Ming: Taichi Sculpture

Museum of China

 

interview  Ju Ming

2006
 

text  Zhu

 
 

catalogue of the exhibition at  National Art

 
 

Museum  Beijing

 
  156 p  
 

isbn  9787806748237

 
       
       
       

Ju Ming  朱銘

 

 

朱銘

2006
 

Ju Ming

 
  texts Johnson Tsongzung Chang  
  Michael Sullivan  Ho Sukee  
     
     
     
     


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