Exhibition Title：Fresh Green fresh green Aoki Aoki Solo Exhibition
Exhibition Period：112/12/04(Mon)-12/29(Fri)
Exhibition Venue：Art Center Exhibition Room, 1F, General Building III, Second Campus, National Formosa University
Exhibition Introduction：
Aoki Aoki (Huang Min-Chin), who plays multiple roles as an artist, art critic, and curator, is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University. He has held 6 solo exhibitions and participated in dozens of domestic and international group exhibitions. Aoki Aoki’s creative style brings together unique interpretations of grasslands, greenery, and natural scenery, using mineral pigments and ink painting to outline captivating and mesmerizing images.
The artist’s creative concept for this exhibition：[ I want to paint the local colors that belong to this island of Taiwan in the twenty-first century, to paint the “green” that belongs to Taiwan in the twenty-first century, and I first name this kind of green as “Fresh Green Fresh Green” ]。
Artist Biography：
Aoki Aoki (Huang Min-Chin) was born in 1980 in Qingshui, Taichung. He graduated from the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, Tunghai University in 2013, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University.
Awards & Grants
2023 Artist-in-Residence at “Chishang Art Village”, Taiwan Good Foundation
2022 3rd Place, Mineral Pigment Category, 27th Dadun Fine Arts Exhibition, Taichung City
2019 Study Visit to Vienna, Austria, Budapest, Hungary, and Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Study Visit to Shanghai and Suzhou, China
2019 Study Visit to Qingdao, Weihai, Yantai, Jinan, and Qingzhou, Shandong, China
2019 Excellent Selection, Professor Liu Kuo-Sung Modern Ink Painting Creation Award
2018 Study Visit to Huangshan, Anhui, China
2016 “Fresh Green Mineral Pigment Creation”, National Culture and Arts Foundation 105–2 Visual Arts Creation Grant
2012 1st Place, Graduate Institute, Mineral Pigment Category, 30th Tunghai University Fine Arts Exhibition
2009 Received Tunghai University Teaching Excellence Program—Off-site Teaching Program Grant for a Study Visit to Tokyo Art Museums
2009 Study Visit to Songzhuang Art Festival, Beijing, China
1999 Excellent Selection, Mineral Pigment Category, Taichung County Fine Arts Exhibition
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Aoki Forest Wood”, Chengdong Gallery, Yilan, Taiwan
2023 “Longan Blossom Fragrance”, Hugo Hsing Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2020 “Freshness” Aoki 2020 Clustered Green Series and Line Drawing Works Exhibition, M Gallery, Taipei
2018 “Fresh Green” 2018 Solo Exhibition, Keyuan Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
2017 “Retrospective 2017〜1999”, Daxiwo, Miaoli, Taiwan
2016 “Aoki Solo Exhibition”, Keyuan Art Center, Taichung