Jui Hwa Lin / Taiwan

Second Generation Owner of “Zhunan Snake Kiln” / Intangible Cultural Heritag Preservers / Successfully set the Guinness World Record

Jui Hwa Lin is a ceramic artist who began his craft as a traditional potter. Unsophisticated, simplistic, dedicated, and persistent. For 30 years, he unceasingly explored the realm of the unknown in ceramics and pioneered an entirely new artistic territory.The innovative ceramist employs high temperature wood-firing, overturning the definition of beauty as told by classical ceramics, while sublation Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetics and the glaze expression of modern ceramic art.

He uses the earth, wood, and his hands to concentrate on his dialogue with the fire. Though seemingly unpolished, his works are rife with subtle variations. For example, the white jade quality, crystalline patterns, amber and jade colors between 1300℃-1360℃; the warmth of antique jade, the ice crack, golden thread, and leopard skin patterns, and the silver, seashell, and pearl-like shine between 1380℃-1450℃; and the realm above 1500℃yet to be explored by mankind.

And Lin will be the first person down the path toward future ceramics.His works, the Mother Glaze - the art of transformation, will be on display at this year’s ART TAINAN. There, he will offer his interpretation of new artistic concepts of fire and earth, expressing the ultimate in raw clay and the passion of kiln fire.

From Lin’s creations and practices, we can reflect deeply on human culture, we can find a new direction with which mankind creates substances and seek a better life.

2024 ART TAINAN/ Silks Place Tainan

2022

The Exhibition of Contemporary Craft by 24 Taiwanese crafters, Bureau of Cultural Heritage, MOC

The Solo Exhibition of Jui Hwa Lin Ceramics “Future Ceramics”, Chung Hua University

2020 Joint Exhibition of 2020 Taoyuan＆Hsinchu & Miaoli Wood-Fired Ceramics and Tea Ceremony “The art of the kiln”, Taoyuan Arts Center

2019

Intangible Cultural Heritag Preservers, Kiln arch building technique with traditional raw bricks, edge throwing with traditional kick wheel

Taiwan Chawan Festival 1st, Miaobei Art Center

The 9th Taichung Artists of Art Relay Exhibition “Thoughts of Refinement”, Taichung Municipal City Huludun Cultural Center

Selected, 39th Concurs International de Ceramica l’Alcora-CICA, Spain

Selected, International Ceramics Competition Carouge 2019, Switzerland

2018

The Joint Exhibition of Taiwanese crafters “A treasure of Miaoli”, NTCRI Miaoli Branch & Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum

The Craft Exhibition of Renowned Taiwanese Craftsman “The Specialized”, Yingge Ceramics Museum

Miaoli Pottery Taiwan Wood-Fired Art Festival, Miaoli Pottery Museum

The Joint Exhibition Miaoli Art Masters, Culture and Tourism Bureau, Miaoli County

The Joint Exhibition of Miaoli County Wood-fired Pottery Creation Association “Blossom, The Beauty of Vessels”, Taichung City Government

Taiwan Bonsai Collection Exhibition, Miaobei Art Center

Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington DC USA

2017

The Double Solo Exhibition of Jui Hwa Lin & Sophia Deng “Back to Pottery Heart”, National Tsing Hua University Arts Center

The Solo Exhibition of Jui Hwa Lin Ceramics “Future Ceramics”, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Hsinchu County Government

History and Development of Wood-Fired Ceramic Art in Taiwan, Yingge Ceramics Museum

International Chawan Expo, Kyoto Japan

Miaoli Pottery Taiwan Wood-Fired Art Festival “The Pure Kiln”, Miaoli Pottery Museum

The Joint Exhibition of Pottery and Painting “Encountering The Pure Beauty “, Miaobei Art Center

World Ceramic Art & Craft Biennale: Bottles & Boxes, Vichte, Belgium

2016

Successfully set the Guinness World Record for High Temperature in a Wood-fired Kiln at 1563℃

International Chawan Expo, Taiwan

Miaoli Pottery Taiwan Wood-Fired Art Festival, Miaoli Pottery Museum

2015

International Chawan Expo, Hemiksem, Belgium

High Temperature Wood-fired Solo Exhibition of Jui Hwa Lin “Mother Glaze”,Taichung City Dadun Cultural Center

Naturamica, Yingge Ceramics Museum

The Joint Exhibition of Tian-fu Lin & Jui Hwa Lin “Pass The Torch”, Miaobei Art Center

2014

International Chawan Expo, Singapore

Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong

Mother Glaze-Jui Hwa Lin High Temperature Wood-Fired Ceramics Solo Exhibition / Hong Kong University Science & Technology

Publication of " Mother Glaze - The World of High Temperature Wood-Fired Ceramics"

The Exhibition of International Artist High Temperature Wood- Fired Ceramics “The Art of Tea Ware & Fire”, Miaobei Art Center

2013

International Chawan Expo, Kaohsiung

The Inheritance of Craft Arts Exhibition Series 2, National Center for Traditional Arts

2012 Selected, The 4th Taiwan International Gold Teapot Prizes

2011 Published “A New Era of High-Temperature Wood-Fired Ceramics”(co-author Sophia Deng)

2010

“The Beauty of High-Temperature Wood-fired Teapot & Tea Bowl Jui Hwa Lin Solo exhibitions and book publications, Zhunan Snake Kiln & National Health Research Institutes

2008

The Dialogue between Japanese Clay & Taiwanese Fire Solo Exhibition, Zhunan Snake Kiln, Taiwan

Artist in Residence at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park, Japan

Selected, The 1th Taiwan International Gold Teapot Prizes

2007 Second Place, Miaoli Ceramics Competition

2005 Special Exhibition of Local Art in Taiwan / Taipei International Art Fair

2003

Selected, Taipei Ceramics Awards-Innovation in Ceramics Awards

The Beauty of Firewood is in Miaoli, Yingge Ceramics Museum

1997

Solo Exhibition of Jui Hwa Lin Wood-fired Ceramics, Taipei County Art Center

Optimization, 5th The Dream of Craft Taiwan Daily Goods Selection and Exhibition

1996 Selected, Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City

1955 Born in Taiwan Taichung, Waipu Tāi-kah-tang