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.
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
Solo Exhibition
2024 Beyond Sorrow and Joy, ASTAR GALLERY, Taipei
2022 Surface Beyond, ASTAR GALLERY, Taipei
2021 Abstract Image, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
2019 Cirrus Afar, ASTAR GALLERY, Taipei
2016 Relation of Women, Beyond Gallery, Taipei
2015 A Glance, InART Space, Tainan
2014 Galloping Horse, Shanghai / Beyond Gallery, Taipei
2012 Scenic Chatter, Beyond Gallery, Taipei
2005 Transpiration, Angel Art Gallery, Taipei
2000 Han Art (Han Modern & Contemporary), Montreal, Canada
1997 Transpiration, Maggie Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
1995 Playground, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
1994 Color, Extreme, Vision: Acrylic Works, Jin Gallery, New York, USA
1993 The Word of Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green, Philo's Gallery, Taipei
1993 Wild Oriental Ballad, Nou Gallery, Taipei
1992 New Paradise: Acrylic Work, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
1991 Color, Extreme, Vision: Acrylic Works, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
1991 Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
1989 Horse & Woman, Acrylic Painting Exhibition, Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
1988 Beauty in Room, Galerie Esperanza, Montreal, Canada
1988 Women & Landscape, The Premier Gallery, New York, USA
1988 Women & Mountain, Triform Gallery, Taipei
1971 Asian Art Association, San Francisco, California, USA
1971 The Batik Painting Exhibition, Sylvia Mesches Gallery, California, USA
1970 United States Information Service, Taichung
1970 Art Guild Gallery Taipei
1970 Tung Hai University Art Gallery, Taichung
1970 Spring and Autumn Gallery, Taipei
1969 Internationality Gallery, Taipei
Group Exhibition
2023-2019 Art Taipei, ASTAR GALLERY, Taipei
2019 Shenzhen International Art Fair, ASTAR GALLERY, Shenzhen
2019 Shanghai Art Fair International, ASTAR GALLERY, Shanghai
2016 The Troika, Red Gold Fine Art, Taipei
2014 Charade, Art & Arch Museum, Taichung
1991 Taipei-New York: Confrontation of Modernism, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1989 Walasse Ting, Dennis Hwang & Hilo Chen Exhibition,
Chinese-American Arts Council, New York, USA
1988 Mountain Vision Exhibition, Seton Hall University Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA
1985 Walasse Ting, Dennis Hwang & Hilo Chen Exhibition, Lung Man Gallery, Taipei
1985 Dennis Hwang & Li-Fa Shih Exhibition, Howard Salon, Taipei
1984 Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1973 Contemporary Prints by Chinese Artists, City Museum & Art Gallery, Hong Kong
1972 Dennis Hwang & Veloy Vigil Exhibition, Sylvia Menches Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1972 Contemporary Chinese Paintings, East Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1972 Asian Artists Exhibition, ASEA Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1971 The Batik Painting Exhibition I, Sylvia Mesches Gallery, California, USA
1970 The Batik Painting Exhibition II, Sylvia Mesches Gallery, California, USA
1969 The 12th Modern Graphic Painting Exhibition, Art Guild Gallery, Taipei
1964 National Museum of History, National Watercolor Exhibition, Taipei
1961 The Youth Arts Exhibition, United States Information Service, Taipei
