Kan Hung-Ju
Born 1993, Taiwan
Lives and works in New York, USA
Kan Hung-Ju was born in Taiwan in 1993 and is currently based in New York. He received his BFA from the National Taiwan University of Arts (2015) and his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2020). His works have been exhibited in numerous significant venues, including the Smith Center at Harvard University (2019), ART TAIPEI (2022), a solo exhibition in Boston (2021), New York (2024), and Art Central Hong Kong (2025). Throughout a long-term experience of spanning disparate geographies and cultures, Kan Hung-Ju’s painting has evolved into an act of “visual way-finding” that drifts between memory and emotion. Eschewing concrete narratives, he utilises abstract, layered, and dissolving brushstrokes to construct private psychological spaces on canvas. The emotions within his work remain latent within the breath of colour blocks and gestures, appearing as fragments from the depths of memory that emerge, blurred yet profound, within the present moment.
EDUCATION
2020 MFA in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA
2015 BFA in Calligraphy and Painting Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei,
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 ‘Birth of the Between’ , Latitude Gallery, New York, USA (Group)
2025 ‘Epiphany : A journey Within,’ Art Central, Hong Kong, China (Solo)
2024 ‘Between Ambiguity and Clarity,’ Whitestone Gallery x BackStage, Shanghai, China (Group)
2025 ‘One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy,’ Latitude Gallery, New York, USA (Solo)
2022 ‘Art Taipei,’ Taipei International Art Fair, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan 2022 ‘Like Wildflowers,’ World Trade Center, New York, USA (Group)
2021 ‘Corporate Art Program’, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Boston, USA (Group)
2021 ‘Artsy x cereusart,’ Artsy Auction, New York, USA (Group)
2021 ‘The Nature of Remembrance,’ Nearby Gallery, Boston, USA (Solo)
2021 ‘We Are Cereus: greenhouse x cereusart,’ Greenhouse Auction, New York, USA (Group)
2021 ‘Materialized,’ MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, USA (Group)
2020 ‘RAW,’ MFA National Exhibition, University of Montana, Montana, USA (Group)
2020 ‘Shifting Sights,’ Area Gallery, Boston, USA (Group)
2020 ‘Fresh Faces,’ Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, USA (Group)
2020 ‘MassArt Thesis,’ Massachusetts College of Art and Design Museum, Boston, USA (Group)
2019 ‘Reveal,’ Arts Wing Gallery, Harvard University, Boston, USA (Group)