Born in 1962 in Taipei, Dong Shaw–hwei received her B.A. and M.F.A. from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, and worked as an art teacher in Taipei Municipal Song-Shan Senior High School. Dong traveled to Europe several times for solo exhibitions and published several catalogs during 1994-2007. She had also worked as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Taipei Department of Visual Arts. Early in her career, she studied the style of impressionism, and learned how to express the shadows and color from western paintings. She devoted herself to the analysis of Zhuangzi’s philosophical thoughts and aesthetics as a graduate student and published her thesis under the title of The Philosophy of Zhuangzi and Its Aesthetic Significance. Dong gradually started refining and adding depth to her painting style, and begun a process of self-realization through uniting her life and art. Since the late 1990s, she created her unique style with the “Still Life of Black Table Series”, as well as the “Courtyard in Black and White Series”. Dong restructured the common space in daily life on her paintings with various plants, wooden tables and chairs. Notable solo exhibitions include the invitation by Twin Oaks of National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., and Unfettered Heart – 2013 Dong Shawhwei New Works Solo Exhibition at Asia Art Center Taipei in 2013. Her most recent exhibitions being Clear & Pure Mind as a Mirror—A Peaceful Life: Dong Shaw-hwei Solo Exhibition at Asia Art Center, Taiwan in 2026, and In Courtyard, Recollecting Precious Moments of Life: Dong Shaw-hwei 2017 Solo Exhibition at National Museum of History, Taiwan in 2017.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Clear & Pure Mind as a Mirror—A Peaceful Life: 2026 Dong Shaw-hwei Solo Exhibition, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 Courtyard and Still Life with Light: 2024 Dong Shaw-hwei Solo Exhibition, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China
2019 Love in the Courtyard—2019 Dong Shaw-hwei Collection Exhibition, Dongli Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 In Courtyard, Recollecting Precious Moments of Life—Dong Shaw-hwei 2017 Solo Exhibition National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
Dingyou Year．Early Spring—Dong Shaw-hwei‘ s Journey to the Heart, The One South Park and Dongli Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2014 Window, Tranquility, Light and Shade—Ni Tsai-chin & Dong Shaw-hwei 2014 Dual Exhibition, Cathay United Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Unfettered Heart—2013 Dong Shaw-hwei New Works Solo Exhibition, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Courtyard and Still Life series Exhibition, Twin Oaks, Washington DC, USA
2011 Courtyard and Still Life series Exhibition, Cathay United Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Invitational Solo Exhibition of Courtyard and Still Life series, Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, China
2010 Courtyard—Shade Series New Works Released Exhibition, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
The Things I Observe Solo Exhibition, Dongli Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007 Courtyard—Watercolor Works Tour, Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Courtyard—Oil and Watercolor Works Released Exhibition Taipei City Hall Celebrity Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 In Courtyard-New Oil Painting and Watercolor Works Released Taipei City Hall Celebrity Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2003 Before. After. Between, City Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Nature and Freedom, Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Transgression throughout the Volatile World Inaugural Exhibition of Asia Art Center
Taipei New Flagship Space, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Beauty of Fan, Dongli Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Pre-Modern Way: Sampling of Contemporary Sketch and Its Cultural Formation, Moon Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2014 Window, Tranquility, Light and Shade—Ni Tsai-chin& Dong Shaw-hwei 2014 Dual Exhibition, Cathay United Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Contemporary Landscape, Grand Times Square, Shanghai, China & Cathay United Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 The 2nd Asian Women's Art Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
