WU Chin Chin
Ching-Chih WU is a residence artist in Sculpture studio at Anderson Ranch Art Center in 2013 and Artist resident at Glasgow School of art 2014-2015. Nowadays he’s working in the field of metalwork, sculpture and enamel jewelry design. He participated in Artistar Jewels in 2015, and from that moment his brand became increasingly popular in Asia. He started travelling the world, doing many solo exhibitions all over abroad such as in the US, Taiwan , Hong Kong, South Korea, Netherland and Beijing. Ching-Chih WU gradually turned away from demonstrating skills and started questing for creative content and transcendental meanings. In fact, his art works has already transcendental the traditional metalworking framework. The award he won at Artistar Jewels was very helpful for him to take his enamel works in a new level and it helped him finding the balance between the functionality and wearable art. His signature is establishing though combing enamel to break through the restrictions from metalworking techniques and concepts. His works also turned from small accessory to spatial sculpture and he began to approach in a more subtle way to make his sentiments well expressed throughout. Ching-Chih WU was awarded the first prize since 2013 to 2016 in Japan, Lithuania, Italy, Taiwan and thanks to Artistar Jewels, which was one of his first window to the world, he started collaborations with many gallery in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Ching-Chih WU is now one of most anticipated young Taiwanese artists in modern accessory field and sculpture object and his works are collected in US, Japan, Netherland, South Korea, Italy, China, Hong Kong at museum and private collections.
