Yu-Ru Huang 䈎 (郁如)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Yu-Ru Huang 䈎
- Chinese: 郁如
- Era: -
- Geography: Taiwan/Taipei
- Core roles: professor, artist, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Yu-Ru is a multimedia artist, artist teacher, art director, and curator. She received her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, in 1981 and her BA with teaching certificate from National Taiwan Normal University in 1976. Since 1978, she has had solo and group exhibitions in Taiwan, New York, California, and Texas. Her illustrations and designs for publications have been published in Japan and in the United States. Her awards include an individual artist grant award from CACHH (Cultural Arts Council Houston/Harris County) and two ADDY Awards. Her art project, Echoes of Language, was sponsored by city of Houston in 2012 and 2014. She has designed a memorial library, created displays of historical archives of immigrants, and also established various cultural programs. Since 2009 she has served on the committee for the city of Houston’s annual Citizenship Month arts presentation. She served the development committee for Asia Society in 2007 and continued on to coordinate Taiwanese American community’s participation. She has collaborated with the TFAA to create and installed a piece of public art next to Houston’s Vietnam War Memorial.
Education
- 國立臺灣師範大學 — 1976 — B.A., Art
- Rochester Institute of Technology, New York — 1981 — MFA
Employment
- Univ. of Rochester — 1981
- Ogilvy & Mather — 1985 — Art Director
Family
- Husband: 黃惠文
Timeline
Absorbed from her TAH encyclopedia entries ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-yu-ru-huang||TAH #539]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artist52-yu-ru-huang||TAH #52]]) and the TAH employment/education tables — no external sourcing.
- 1976 — B.A. in Art with teaching certificate, 國立臺灣師範大學 (National Taiwan Normal University)
- 1978 — began solo and group exhibitions in Taiwan, New York, California, and Texas (ongoing since)
- 1981 — MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York; joined Univ. of Rochester (per TAH employment table)
- 1985 — Art Director, Ogilvy & Mather (per TAH employment table)
- 2007 — joined the development committee for Asia Society (Houston); later coordinated Taiwanese American community participation
- 2009 — served on the committee for the city of Houston’s annual Citizenship Month arts presentation (ongoing since)
- 2012, 2014 — art project Echoes of Language sponsored by the city of Houston
- 2016 — Citizen of the Year award, Houston City Hall (per [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/25-citizen-of-the-year-award-astc-2016-houston-tx-yu-ru-huang|TAH #25]]; she appears as 葉郁如 on that record)
Awards and community work named in her TAH profile: individual artist grant from CACHH (Cultural Arts Council Houston/Harris County), two ADDY Awards; designed a memorial library and immigrant historical-archive displays; collaborated with TFAA on a public-art piece installed beside Houston’s Vietnam War Memorial. Her Houston community context: |Taiwanese Heritage Society of Houston, |Taiwanese Association of America, Houston chapter.
Sources
- TAH #539 encyclopedia: 539. Yu-Ru Huang 䈎郁如 /2015/08
- TAH #52 encyclopedia: 52. 䈎郁如 Yu-Ru Huang/2015/07
- TAH Who’s Who
In-vault source pages
Her TAH encyclopedia entries are archived in the vault:
- [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artist52-yu-ru-huang||TAH #52 — 䈎郁如 Yu-Ru Huang, artist (2015/07)]]
- [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-yu-ru-huang||TAH #539 — Yu-Ru Huang 䈎郁如 (2015/08)]]
- [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/25-citizen-of-the-year-award-astc-2016-houston-tx-yu-ru-huang||TAH #25 — Citizen of the Year award, Houston City Hall (2016); her name appears as 葉郁如 on that record]]
Her Houston community also has vault pages: |Taiwanese Heritage Society of Houston and |Taiwanese Association of America, Houston chapter (context only — membership is not stated in her TAH profile).
Community institutions named in her profile (Asia Society Houston development committee, TFAA public-art collaboration, city of Houston Citizenship Month committee) do not have dedicated vault pages yet.