Wu Shi-Wei（吳士偉）

Born in Taipei in 1957, with ancestral roots in Fu’an, Fujian, Wu Shi-Wei graduated from the Chinese Painting Division of the Department of Fine Arts at Chinese Culture University in 1985 and earned a Master of Fine Arts from Tunghai University in 1998. He has held seventeen solo exhibitions, taken part in more than one hundred group exhibitions in Taiwan and abroad, and published ten painting catalogues. Through refined brushwork, meticulous layered washes, and elegant yet vivid color, his paintings create an exquisite world in which all things may enter the picture. Combining the quiet refinement of the literati tradition with a rich interplay of ink and color, his graceful and vigorous brushwork charts a restrained new path for ink painting in the contemporary era.