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A-Sun Wu painting a large canvas in his studio
Guest artist — Taiwan · Taipei Week 2026

A-Sun Wu

A Taiwanese painter and sculptor born in 1942, A-Sun Wu has made the line a ritual. Years of travel through Africa, the Amazon and the South Pacific feed a body of work made of signs, figures and colour.

A-Sun Wu in his studio
Photograph · Clermont Fu

The artist

From Luodong to Paris

Born in 1942 in Luodong, Yilan County, A-Sun Wu graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1968, then studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid from 1971 to 1973. He went on to live in New York.

From 1979 he travelled through Africa, the Amazon and the South Pacific. He settled in Paris in 1990 and has since divided his studio between Paris and Taipei.

A Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, he represented Taiwan at the São Paulo Biennial and has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo, the Trianon de Bagatelle and the Palais-Royal in Paris, the Musée Paul-Valéry in Sète, the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. His monumental sculptures stand at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan.

His work is held by the Musée Cernuschi in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo and the Fine Arts Museums of Taipei and Kaohsiung.

At LabMusée

In the studio

  • A-Sun Wu's studio, canvases and sculptures under the timber roof
    Clermont Fu
    The studio

    Canvases and sculptures, side by side

    Under the timber roof, the large canvases lean against the walls, among the painted wooden sculptures.

  • A-Sun Wu's hand, brush on the canvas
    Clermont Fu
    The gesture

    The line first

    Gesture precedes form: the line encircles, protects, invokes.

  • A large canvas by A-Sun Wu in the studio light
    Clermont Fu
    The works

    From old wood to the large canvas

    Acrylic and shell powder on old wood, paintings on bark, large canvases, sculptures of wood, bone and metal.


The exhibition

On view at LabMusée