Who is Lo Chan Peng (羅展鵬)?
Lo Chan Peng (羅展鵬, b. 1983, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese contemporary artist based between Los Angeles and Taipei. Rooted in classical oil painting, his work investigates memory, personality, spirituality, and human perception in the age of artificial intelligence, approaching painting as an archaeology of existence.
What is Lo Chan Peng's Pixel Glazing technique (像素罩染法)?
Pixel Glazing (像素罩染法) is Lo Chan Peng's self-developed method that uses multiple layers of classical oil glazing to respond to the skin-like textures of digital imagery. It creates a tension between the slow temporality of handmade painting and the immediacy of image generation, moving his work beyond traditional realism into a state of Post-Realism.
What is Lo Chan Peng's Ghost project (幽靈計畫)?
The Ghost project expands Lo Chan Peng's practice into text, moving image, AI agents, archival existence, and social platforms. It asks whether personality can continue to exist when a person's language, memory, aesthetics, and values are preserved as files that record the traces of a life — questioning the boundary between a spectral remainder and the original self.
What awards has Lo Chan Peng won?
Lo Chan Peng was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, and has received the ARC Purchase Award and People's Choice Award from the Art Renewal Center (2020), Select 50 in the Portrait Society of America's International Portrait Competition (2020), and First Prize at the Kaohsiung Arts Award (2008).
Where are Lo Chan Peng's works collected and exhibited?
His works are held in museum collections including the Hoki Museum (Japan), ESMoA / El Segundo Museum of Art (Los Angeles), the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and the Chimei Museum (Taiwan). He works with international galleries led by Whitestone Gallery, alongside Corey Helford Gallery (Los Angeles), Enlighten Gallery (Taipei), LE METTE GALLERY (Japan), Beinart Gallery (Melbourne), and Gallery Suchi (Tokyo).
