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Nationality
  
Taiwanese

Role
  
Artist

Name
  
Jeng Jundian

Movement
  
Color Lines Painting

Known for
  
Painting


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Full Name
  
鄭君殿 Jeng Jundian

Born
  
1963
Kinmen, Taiwan

Education
  
Taiwan National University of Arts

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Jeng Jundian (Chinese: 鄭君殿; born 1963) is a Taiwanese painter and contemporary artist, known predominantly for his large scale works of portrait and landscape painted by layers of colorful lines; He is associated with color lines painting. He currently lives and works in Taiwan.

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Biography

Jeng Jundian was born in Kinmen, he grew up there, and came to Taiwan at the age of 19 and graduated from Taiwan National University of Arts in 1987. Jeng lived in Paris from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, Jeng returned to Taiwan and started working on his new style of painting and held many group or solo exhibitions, in Taiwan or in New York City. Jeng is married and has two sons.

Style

Jeng is famously associated with color lines painting; simple and unadorned pure “colored lines” are used as his basic painting unit, forming linear layers, to depict tranquil realm that include images wavering between abstract and representational, with their textures rich and their colors light and peaceful.

Exhibitions

Jeng's works have been exhibited internationally in solo or group shows. Jeng had a solo exhibition,“Another Day”, in November 2014 at Eslite Gallery, Taipei, and also took part in the 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition of that gallery that same year. Previously, he had held a larger exhibition entitled “Day In, Day Out”, also at Eslite Gallery, Taipei(2012); another solo exhibition at Eslite Gallery, Taipei(2008); a show Landscape – Cityscape, at Marlborough Gallery, New York (2005); Jeng has a duo exhibition with artist Wang Keping, Body & Nature: Two Chinese Artists, at Marlborough Gallery, New York (2004).; Taiwan Legend: Contemporary Painting in Taiwan, at Galerie Pierre, Taichung(1994).

Jeng's works are constantly shown at international art fairs; Art Taipei, Art Beijing, or Art Basel Hong Kong.

His works have been collected by Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio, USA) and the White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney, Australia).

References

Jeng Jundian Wikipedia