Shiau Jon Jen was born in 1954 and graduated from Université de Paris VIII. Shiau Jon Jen was trained by modern sculptor Zhu Ming. His works use camphor wood as the medium. With the concern for nature as the starting point, Shiau gradually uses the images of mountains and water to reflect the inner state, which has been a way of metaphor by ancient Chinese litterateurs. He also infuses humanity into the creation of abstract wood carves.
To Shiau Jon Jen, society is always full of forces from all sides pulling each other. However, the people in it are still under the same umbrella. Although it seems to be unbalanced, there is a greater overall stability that gives these phenomena space for their development. He distributes tensions in different landscapes and makes way for the audience to feel his grasp of the organic combination of the natural mystery of all things. Viewers feel the bizarre, the intangible, the suspended, and what is pulled away in his works, but still see a stable order of the earth. The seemingly random individual and local parts are eventually all stably connected with mother nature.
Shiau’s works can be found globally such as at the Bowers Museum (Santa Ana, US), the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), and the Naera Hotel (Xitang, China), he also participated in the design of public areas such as Chin Pao San (Taiwan), the world-beloved singer Teresa Teng’s Cemetery (Taiwan), Yuzi Paradise (Guilin, China) and Shanghai Yuehu Sculpture Park, etc.