Organised by the international contemporary art magazine Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize spans media from painting and sculpture to photography and digital art, and styles ranging from realism and surrealism to pop surrealism. Such was the standard of entries this year that 145 finalists were selected from 82 countries, and the final shortlist was enlarged from fifteen to twenty; beyond the winners in each category, a single overall Grand Prize was awarded irrespective of medium. It is this highest honour that Lo Chan Peng received.

The winning work is the oil painting Eternity Dawn (oil on canvas, 107.5 × 170 cm). Born in Taiwan in 1983, Lo Chan Peng studied at the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University. Working chiefly in portraiture in oil and ink, he has long examined questions of time, history, life and death, rendering his figures with a fine precision that turns abstract ideas into visible form and holds the viewer in a quiet, exacting gaze.

Lo has received the Purchase Award, a Portraiture Honourable Mention and the People’s Choice Award from the Art Renewal Center (ARC), USA (2020), the Chi Mei Art Award (2007) and the Kaohsiung Award (2008). His work is held in collections including the HOKI Museum, Japan; ESMoA, Los Angeles; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; and the Chi Mei Museum, and has been shown at international art fairs in London, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei.