Dr. Chao-Min Liu (劉兆民博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Dr. Chao-Min Liu
- Chinese: 劉兆民博士
- Era: 1936
- Geography: Chiayi, Taiwan
- Core roles: scientist, professor, artist
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
- Art Students League of New York, New York, 1982-1985 (Studio of H. Dinnerstein, H. Holms, D. Dickerson)
Education
- National Taiwan Univ. — 1954-1960 — B.S, M.S, Plant Pathology
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI — 1963-1969 — M.S, Ph.D., Biochemistry
Employment
- Taipei Medical College, Taiwan — Instructor of Biochemistry — (1962-1963) — Waksman Institute of Microbiology, NJ — Post-Doctoral Research Associate — (1970-1972) — Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ — Distinguished Research Leader — (1972-2011) — Inst. of Biochemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan — Visiting Professor — (2011-2012) — Art Students League of New York — Life Member — West Essex Art Association, NJ — Member — Community — Art Students League of New York — Life Member — West Essex Art Association (WEAA), NJ — Member
Timeline
Facts absorbed from this page’s own TAH tables and encyclopedia entry; no new sources.
- 1954–1960 — National Taiwan Univ.: B.S., M.S., Plant Pathology
- 1962–1963 — Instructor of Biochemistry, Taipei Medical College, Taiwan
- 1963–1969 — Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison: M.S., Ph.D., Biochemistry
- 1970–1972 — Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, NJ
- 1972–2011 — Distinguished Research Leader, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ
- 1982–1985 — Art Students League of New York, studios of H. Dinnerstein, H. Holms, D. Dickerson; later Life Member
- 2011–2012 — Visiting Professor, Inst. of Biochemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Community — Member, West Essex Art Association (WEAA), NJ
Family
- Father: 劉新祿 Shin-Ruh Liu (artist, 1906–1984) — see shin-ruh-liu
- Wife: Sharon
- Son: 2
Sources
- TAH #18 encyclopedia: 18. Dr. Chao-Min Liu 劉兆民博士
- TAH #3 encyclopedia: 3. Dr. Chao-Min Liu 劉兆民博士
- TAH Who’s Who
Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)
- Father: artist 劉新祿 Shin-Ruh Liu (1906–1984, 嘉義民雄) — see |Shin-Ruh Liu (劉新祿); Chao-Min Liu wrote about his father’s painting philosophy in 2015-12.
- The vault preserves his own art writing and exhibits: |Nature Is My Studio (artist essay, 2019), |八十回顧展油畫集 (2015), and his painted portraits of peers, e.g. [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/footsteps-34||portrait of Dr. Bob Cheng 鄭寶鼎 (#34)]].
Related Pages
- |TAH Foundation
- |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
- |TAH artist profile: Chao-Min Liu
- |Shin-Ruh Liu (劉新祿) — father
- |先父劉新祿的繪畫創作理念及人生觀
- 劉兆民
- |劉兆民 八十回顧展油畫集
Vault re-check 2026-09-11 (deepen-x slice 9, vault-only)
All wikilink targets on this page verified to exist in the vault; all cited-source facts were already absorbed in the prior deepen pass. No new vault facts found, no web used, no new pages created, nothing published.
Vault re-check 2026-09-13 (deepen-x slice 22, vault-only)
- His own archival collection is held by the TAH archive: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-dr-chao-min-liu||TAH #64 — Collection of Dr. Chao-Min Liu 劉兆民博士的收藏]]. No web used, no new pages created, nothing published.
Deepen pass 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09140020-5, vault-only)
More in-vault works by or depicting him, newly linked (all disk-verified before linking; no web used):
- Paintings in the TAH story corpus: 台美族的圓桌會議 (2006), 台美社區獎學金, 示威 (2002); his canvases also reproduce in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys112|TAH #112 (Taiwanese American conference, oil on canvas)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys303|TAH #303]].
- Earlier art publication: 劉兆民油畫選集 (1998).
- His own memoir: 一九六三年離台留美記.
- Encyclopedia twins: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/18-dr-chao-min-liu|TAH #18]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-3-chao-min-liu|TAH #3]]. No biography invented, no new pages created, nothing published.
Deepen pass 2026-10-09 (deepen-x slice 10081000-7, vault-only)
Fresh ZH+EN grep (劉兆民 / Chao-Min Liu / Chaomin Liu) across works/articles/sources/events/topics surfaced 8 previously-unlinked in-vault records (all disk-verified before linking; no web used):
- Paintings in the TAH footsteps story corpus: Summer Picnic (夏季野餐, 2000), Softball Game (壘球賽, 2000), EC 台美人美東夏令會, 2011) — movement-scene subjects, community record over press-kit bio.
- His own essays/memoirs: 藝術人生, 我的繪畫師友 (2017-08), 繪畫隨筆 – 中央公園的女人 (2016-12), University of Wisconsin 的留學生活 (2015-01) — corroborates the 1963–1969 Wisconsin timeline entry, no date conflict — and 到 Martha Vineyard 島見總統 Clinton.
- Exhibition record: 林保山、劉兆民雙個展 (2010-04) — two-person show with artist Lin Baoshan. No biography invented, no new pages created, nothing published.
Deepen pass 2026-10-11 (deepen-x slice 10100500-13, vault-only)
Fresh ZH+EN grep (劉兆民 / Chao-Min Liu / Chaomin Liu) across works/articles/sources/events/topics surfaced 4 previously-unlinked in-vault records (all disk-verified before linking; no web used):
- Art writings: 習畫自述 (2014) and 巴黎繪畫隨筆 (2018-02) — his own accounts of learning to paint and Paris sketch-notes, companion pieces to the existing mystories568/495 essays.
- Press profile: Meredith Brennan (2018-12) — a third-party feature on the scientist-artist duality.
- Wisconsin memoir twin: 掌握可疑綫索 – University of Wisconsin, Madison留學生活的回憶 (2016-03) — the Our Journeys publication of the same Wisconsin reminiscence already linked as mystories173 (2015-01); same content, two publication venues, no date conflict. No biography invented, no new pages created, nothing published.
Deepen pass 2026-10-12 (deepen-x slice 10110100-19, vault-only)
Fresh ZH+EN grep (劉兆民 / Chao-Min Liu / Chaomin Liu) across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set is now saturated except one previously-unlinked record:
- Exhibition record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/dr-chao-min-liu-oil-paintings-show|TAH #29 — 2018-05~06 solo oil-paintings show, Livingston Community Center Gallery, Livingston NJ]] — complements the 2010-04 林保山雙個展 already linked; documents his NJ exhibition activity alongside the Hoffmann-La Roche career years. No biography invented, no new pages created, nothing published.
Deepen pass 2026-10-12 (deepen-x slice 10120316-24, vault-only)
Fresh ZH+EN grep (劉兆民 / Chao-Min Liu / Chaomin Liu) across works/articles/sources/events/topics: 30 corpus hits, all 30 already linked on this page — hit set saturated. Only unlinked hit is taiwaneseamericanhistory.org’s works index, a hub listing rather than a source. No new facts, no date conflicts, no web used, no new pages created, nothing published.
Deepen pass 2026-10-13 (deepen-x slice 10121500-22, vault-only)
Fresh five-dir grep with expanded variants (劉兆民 / 刘兆民 / Chao-Min Liu / Chaomin Liu / ChaoMin / chao-min) returned 30 + 27 hits across both passes — identical hit set, all already linked on this page. Only unlinked hit remains the works index hub listing. Hit set confirmed saturated; no new facts, no date conflicts, no web used, no new pages created, nothing published.