Dennis HWANG
Taiwan / Taipei
Dennis HWANG
1941 Born in Xiamen, China
1971 U.S. Department of State invited HUANG to the U.S. for cultural and art exchange exhibitions
1972 Study at Pratt Institute in New York
He has taught at Taipei American School and the Art Department of Montgomery College, Washington, U.S.A.
Awards and Prizes
The First USIS Youth Pointer Award of Excellence
The Sun Yat-Sen Award for Arts
Cultural Exchange Award by the United States Department of State
Cultural Exchange Award by Pratt Institute, New York, USA
Dennis HWANG started to paint when he was 14 years old. He practised a wide range of art forms, from Chinese calligraphy and ink painting to sketching and oil painting of the Western tradition. Hwang set up his mind to be a painter at the age of 18. His teachers include famous artists Shiy De-Jinn, Wu Hsueh-Jang, and Lee Chun-Shan, the mentor of Taiwanese modern painting, who guided him through his growth and advancement of painting techniques and artistic ideology and thoughts.
Hwang consciously adopted bright colours as seen in Taiwanese temples, the images of folk arts and the brushwork of traditional Chinese painting, and turned them into his own artistic vocabulary. What HWANG focused on was a return to the essence of art and a sympathetic understanding of life. He brought forth traditional Chinese views on landscapes with modern interpretations of their complicities. They look traditional but modern with universal appeal.