Founder of Juming Museum: Ju Chuan-tai
1938 - 1970 Ju Ming, whose real name is Ju Chuan-tai, was born in Tongxiao, Miaoli in 1938. At the age of fifteen, he studied sculpture and painting under the master sculptor Lee Chin-chuan, and has since entered into his sculpting career.1976, thus making Ju Ming is regarded as a symbol of Taiwan's rural movement in the 1970s. Astablishing his position in the art world. Ju Ming did not stop there, but worked harder and harder on his creations, developing what became known as the "Tai Chi Series" in the future.
1980 - 2000 In the early 1980s, Ju Ming "Human World Series" works enter an important stage of development, "Tai Chi Series" developed in parallel with "Human World Series".
2000 - 2022 In terms of artistic creation, Ju Ming continues to make breakthroughs and innovations. In 2000, he perfectly interpreted the profound meaning of the circulation of Tai Chi spirit with the abstract form of "Tai Chi Arch". drawing a successful conclusion to the "Tai Chi Series".
"The Human World Series - Three Armies" published in 2005 Beginning in 2007, Ju Ming's "Human World Series" used the concept of "throwing away" to remove excess colors and switch to white and black, pursuing a purer modeling world.
In 2010, Ju Ming's "Human World Series - Prisoner" and "Cube" works, and also proposed a new concept of creation. The works break away from thinking about modeling, and instead explore and show the diversified development of Ju Ming's creation and the deepening of aesthetics.
2015 "Human World Series—Citizens" Using pure wooden original colors and neat cutting marks to express the image, Ju Ming does not use microscopic materials to capture various aspects of life, but shows the collective impression of the crowds in the city "Human World Series—Ballet" published in 2018 following the 2009 "Human World Series - Swimming", mirror-polished stainless steel is once again used as a means of expression, or black and white painting is used to highlight the appearance of the characters. In 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Juming Museum, Juming published "Ancient Sunken Wood Tai Chi Arch, he buried it with rare eggplants that were buried more than 5,000 years ago. 2022 "Human World Series-Beauty" is the last new work published by Ju Ming during his lifetime.
Passed away in Taipei in 2023 at the age of 85. Ju Ming has been creating unremittingly throughout his life. As an artist, he constantly breaks through himself and understands his true nature. Put forward the aesthetic point of view that "art is practice", and his unique artistic expression and achievements have also left an important trajectory and contribution to the history of Taiwanese art.