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Born in 1983 in Taiwan, Lo Chan-Peng obtained the U.S. first preference EB1A Green Card (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) in 2024. He has received numerous prestigious art awards both domestically and internationally, including the Global Grand Prize - 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize (The Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize), ARC Collection Award | Art Renewal Center, USA, Portrait Honors Award | Art Renewal Center, USA, and ARC Best Popular Award | Art Renewal Center, USA (2020). He has also been honored with the Federal Art Newcomer Award (2004) and the Chimei Art Award (2007). Since 2011, Lo has participated in various large-scale international art exchange programs as a resident artist, including those in Berlin, Germany (2011), and the El Segundo Museum of Arts (ESMoA) in Los Angeles, USA (2013). Recent major exhibitions and fairs Lo participated in include "2023 Secret Longings, COREY HELFORD GALLERY, Los Angeles, USA," "2022 'One World,' Tokyo, Japan," "2020 'People Changed by History and Those Who Change History,' Taiwan," and "Portraiture 2020, USA," displayed in Taipei, London, Tokyo, Osaka, Busan, Seoul, Moscow, Singapore, and other international art fairs. His works are collected by prominent institutions such as the ESMoA in Los Angeles, USA, Hoki Museum in Japan, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Chimei Museum in Taiwan, the Federal Cultural Foundation in Taiwan, as well as numerous private collectors worldwide. Lo Chan-Peng's artworks primarily focus on portraits and span a variety of media including oil paintings and ink. In his work, Lo often explores themes of time, history, and the boundary between life and death. Through representational and delicate portraiture, as well as traces of wear, damage, burning, and stains, he delivers a potent visual experience to the viewers, transforming abstract concepts like time and history into visible elements and creating a unique artistic lexicon. Recent themes in his work include "people changed by history," "those who change history," and "light." A prominent feature of his art is the indescribable expressions of the figures, profound and mysterious. Lo Chan-Peng believes this simplicity and purity stem from his life experiences and represent what all great artists have aspired to throughout history.