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Prof. Shiou-Ping Liao (廖修平教授)

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Prof. Shiou-Ping Liao (廖修平教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Shiou-Ping Liao
  • Chinese: 廖修平教授
  • Era: 1936
  • Geography: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Core roles: professor, artist, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Prof. Shiou-Ping Liao 廖修平教授 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • National Taiwan Normal Univ. — 1955-1959 — B.A., Art
  • Tokyo National Univ. of Education — 1962-1964 — Dept. of Painting

Employment

  • Seton Hall Univ. — Professor of Printmaking — (1979-1992) — National Taiwan Normal Univ. — Professor of Fine Arts Dept. — (2009-) — Taiwan Academy of Fine Arts — President — (2009-) — National Taiwan Normal University — Instructor of Printmaking — (1973-1976) — Chinese Culture University (文化大學) — Instructor of Printmaking — (1973-1976) — Tsukuba University, Japan — Instructor / Studio Founder — (1977-1979) — Seton Hall University — Adjunct Professor of Art — Community — Society of American Graphic Artists — Member — 中華民國版畫學會 (Print Association of R.O.C.) — 理事 (Board Member) — Société du Salon d’Automne, Paris (Print Section) — Member — Taipei International Biennial Prints Exhibition — Adjudicator — National Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition (Print Section) — Adjudicator

Timeline (deepened 2026-10-10, vault-internal)

  • 1936 — Born in Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 1955–1959 — B.A. Art, National Taiwan Normal University.
  • 1962–1964 — Dept. of Painting, Tokyo National University of Education.
  • 1973–1976 — Instructor of printmaking, National Taiwan Normal University and Chinese Culture University (文化大學).
  • 1977–1979 — Instructor and studio founder, Tsukuba University, Japan.
  • 1979–1992 — Professor of Printmaking, Seton Hall University (also Adjunct Professor of Art there).
  • 1993 — With Chen Chin-fang 陳錦芳 and Hsieh Li-fa 謝里法 — the “紐約蘇荷巴黎三劍客,” three 1960s Paris-trained artists from Taiwan — founds the Paris Cultural and Educational Foundation (財團法人巴黎文教基金會), serving as its chairman; funded by the sale of his own oil painting 《廟》 for NT$3.5 million, the “賣廟助學” story. The trio establish the Prix de Paris (巴黎大獎) to sponsor young Taiwanese artists to study in Paris.
  • 1995 — Donates the NT$600,000 prize of the 2nd National Culture Award plus painting-sale proceeds (including the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts’ purchase of his 1967 oil painting 〈鏡之門〉), totalling NT$1.5 million, to the Print Association of the R.O.C. to found the 版畫大獎 (Print Grand Prize); accepted by then-chairman 龔智明. Prize money from the Wu Shaw-lian Award (吳三連獎) and the Executive Yuan Cultural Award (行政院文化獎) is likewise given to National Taiwan Normal University as printmaking scholarships.
  • 2009– — Professor, NTNU Fine Arts Department; President, Taiwan Academy of Fine Arts.
  • 2014 —催生 (catalyzes/founds) the International Printmaking Center at NTNU, donating several hundred original prints acquired worldwide for teaching, and hosting visiting foreign printmaking specialists and international exchange exhibitions.
  • Community roles — Member, Society of American Graphic Artists and Société du Salon d’Automne, Paris (Print Section); 理事 (board member), 中華民國版畫學會 Print Association of the R.O.C.; adjudicator, Taipei International Biennial Prints Exhibition and National Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition (Print Section).

Career records held in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/47-prof-shiou-ping-liao||TAH #47]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-358-shiou-ping-liao||TAH #358]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artist40-liao-shiou-ping||Artist #40: 廖修平]].

Role in the Community

Beyond his academic career, Liao is remembered in the corpus primarily as a patron and institution-builder for the next generation of printmakers and artists — “急公好『藝』” (public-spirited for art), as 廖新田 puts it.

  • 賣廟助學 / Prix de Paris (1993). Together with Chen Chin-fang 陳錦芳 and Hsieh Li-fa 謝里法, he founded the Paris Cultural and Educational Foundation with Liao as chairman, its purpose “獎助青年留學研究藝術及藝術創作” — supporting young artists to study and create in Paris. The fund was seeded by selling his treasured oil painting 《廟》 (acquired by the Yang couple, Kaohsiung collectors) for NT$3.5 million; the three also sold works at auction to endow the Prix de Paris. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys284||Our Journeys #284: 紐約蘇荷巴黎三劍客 (廖新田, 2017)]].
  • 版畫大獎 (1995). Donated NT$1.5 million — the 2nd National Cultural Council/National Culture Award prize plus painting proceeds — to the 中華民國版畫學會 to establish the Print Grand Prize for emerging printmakers; chairman 龔智明 accepted, calling Liao’s intent “非常崇高.” Wu Shaw-lian Award and Executive Yuan Cultural Award prizes were also given to NTNU as printmaking scholarships. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys284||Our Journeys #284]].
  • International Printmaking Center at NTNU (2014). Founded with personal donations plus hundreds of original prints he had bought or exchanged across Europe and the Americas, used for hands-on teaching and international exchange exhibitions.
  • Profiled in the corpus by peers: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories254||My Stories #254: 廖修平教授的藝術歷程 (李正三, 2015)]] (see Li Zheng-san 李正三); [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications445||Publications #445: 版‧畫‧交響—廖修平創作歷程展 (2014)]]; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications626||Publications #626: 廖修平的藝術 / The Art of Shiou-Ping Liao, 台北市立美術館]].

HOLD: Publications #626’s title line dates the 台北市立美術館 show “04/1989” while the vault record date is 2015-04-26 — treat 1989 as the exhibition year and 2015 as the corpus publication date; do not merge.

Career Record

Synthesized from the TAH profile tables above (no external sourcing). Liao Shiou-ping (b. 1936, Taipei) trained in art at National Taiwan Normal University (B.A. Art, 1955–1959) and the Tokyo National University of Education painting department (1962–1964). His teaching career spans both sides of the Pacific: instructor of printmaking at NTNU and at Chinese Culture University (1973–1976); instructor and studio founder at Tsukuba University, Japan (1977–1979); Professor of Printmaking at Seton Hall University (1979–1992); then from 2009 professor in NTNU’s Fine Arts Department and President of the Taiwan Academy of Fine Arts. As a community figure he is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and of the Print Section of Paris’s Société du Salon d’Automne, a board member (理事) of the Print Association of the R.O.C. (中華民國版畫學會), and an adjudicator for both the Taipei International Biennial Prints Exhibition and the National Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition (Print Section).

Family

  • Wife: 吳淑真

Sources

Connected in the Vault

Cross-links to records of this person already in the vault:

  • His TAH encyclopedia profiles are in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/47-prof-shiou-ping-liao||TAH #47]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-358-shiou-ping-liao||TAH #358]]; a dedicated artist feature exists at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artist40-liao-shiou-ping||Artist #40: 廖修平 Liao Shiou-ping]].
  • Co-founders of the Paris Cultural and Educational Foundation with him: Chen Chin-fang 陳錦芳 and Hsieh Li-fa 謝里法.
  • As a 1955–1959 NTNU art alumnus he falls within the reach of the |Joint Alumni Association of Taiwan Teachers College and Normal Universities.

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