LEE YIH HONG

Taiwanese　1941

Lee Yih-Hong, also known as Chai-Chuan, was born in Sikang Township, Tainan County in 1941 and graduated from the National Taiwan College of Art in 1966. He taught at Keelung Chungshan Junior High School and Taipei National University of the Arts, and has won both the Chungshan Art & Literature Award and the Wusanlien Art & Literature Award. Lee’s fresh strokes incorporate the humanity of photography as scenes of the Southern Taiwanese countryside are brought to life in the ink. He lived in Sanzhi Township after the age of 50, where he finally established himself as an influential artist, though he greatly missed the affections of his hometown.

Awards:
1974 Joined Keelung Photographic Society, in September won the Gold Medal in Portraiture
Competition
1979 Held first solo exhibition at Taipei Spring Art Gallery

Selected Exhibitions:
1988 “Song of Big Trees, A Prelude” Exhibition, held simultaneously at National
Museum of History and Caves Art Center
August 2006, “Taiwan’s Chinese Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition”, Singapore
September 2006, “The Odyssey of Art in Taiwan”, National Art Museum of China in Beijing
October 2006, “Peaceful Meditation – One Hundred Years of Taiwan Calligraphy” (Organizer),
Taipei Shin Kong Art Museum (Curator: Wu Chi-Tao)
March 2014 “Illuminations of a Living Journey”, Taiwan Soka Association, Taipei Cultural Hall