Being Human: Forging Fields of Experience 2025
Sculptor | Liu Po-Chun
Sculptor | Liu Po-Chun | Taipei
b.1963, Taipei
Lives and works in New Taipei City
Liu Po-Chun is one of the representative figures among the mid-generation sculptors. He received his MFA in sculpture from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, and is currently the director of Juming Museum, a professor of the Department of Sculpture and the dean of the Fine Art College, National Taiwan University of Arts. He has garnered numerous prizes and awards, including prestigious awards in Taiwan, such as the Wu San-Lien Arts and Culture Award and the Sun Yat-sen Award for Arts and Literature. He has exhibited internationally in Italy, Hungary, Romania, China, Japan, and South Korea.
After studying carving, molding, and sculpting in clay for more than a decade, Liu has acquired strong sculpting techniques. His five-year study in France allowed him to have systematic training in theory and sculpture history. His early body of work is mostly figurative sculpture, which demonstrates his carving, molding, and casting skills. In recent years, he is known for his work of steel forests and heroes, which contemplates the ideal of nature and humanity.
Notable solo exhibitions include: Field of the Unknown, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2023); Steel Romance, Remarkable Cultivation Museum, Tainan, Taiwan (2020); Iron Man Transformation, Gallery Royal, Seoul, South Korea (2012); Metallic Heroes and Demythification: Dong-Hun Sung and Po-Chun Liu Duo Exhibition, Ju-Ming Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan (2011); Steel Forest, National Taiwan University of Arts, New Taipei City, Taiwan (2010). Important group exhibitions include: Dalseong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Daegu, South Korea (2019); Ask the Way: Keelung Harbor Biennale, Keelung Cultural Center, Keelung, Taiwan (2018); 35th Annual Exhibition Sculpture Survey 2018, Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, Australia (2018); Group Exhibition, Otawara City Museum, Otawara, Japan (2013); Power, where does the beauty lie? Special Exhibition for the 25th anniversary of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, SOMA, Seoul Olympic Sculpture Park, South Korea (2013); Taiwan Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2012); The Open-air Sculpture Biennial, Racconigi, Italy (2010); Discourse, State, Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (2009); Miercurea Ciuc International Art Symposium, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania (2004).
Curator | Dr Susie Lingnam | Singapore
b.1965, Singapore
Dr. Susie Lingham is an interdisciplinary and independent thinker, writer, educator, curator, and maker in the arts. With a focus on the nature of mind, her work synthesizes ideas across different fields, from the humanities to the sciences. Susie was the first female Director of the Singapore Art Museum from 2013 to 2016, shaping its then new vision/mission, curatorial direction and acquisition strategy, and oversaw the development, organization and curating of 13 exhibitions, including After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art (2015) and 5 Stars: Art Reflects on Peace, Justice, Equality, Democracy and Progress (2015/16). She was also appointed Creative Director of the Singapore Biennale 2016, An Atlas of Mirrors.
Prior to these appointments, she was Co-Founder/Director of 5th Passage, as well as Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education/NTU, Singapore (2009-2013). Conferred the Distinguished Alumni Medal 2014 by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Susie has a DPhil in Literature, Religion and Philosophy (University of Sussex, U.K.); an MA (Hons) in Writing (University of Western Sydney, Australia); and a PGDipTHE (NIE/NTU, Singapore), and has taught at universities and art colleges in Australia, Singapore and the U.K. Currently, she is appointed as Senior Lecturer at the School of Technology for the Arts, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore.