Ed pien biography

Canadian artist (born 1958)

Ed Pien (born February 23, 1958) is a Canadian contemporary artist, known for his drawings and large-scale drawing-based installations inspired by multiple sources (Inuit as well as European and Chinese) and traditions,^[1] printmaking, paper cuts and video and photography.^[2][3][4]

Life

Pien was born in 1958 in Taipei, Taiwan, emigrating to Canada at the age of 11 with his family.^[5] At a young age, he began to draw and feels drawing propels everything he does.^[6] He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Ontario (1982) and a Master of Fine Arts from York University (1984).^[7]

Pien lives and works in Toronto, where he was a professor in the John H.

Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto.^[3] He has also been an Artist-in-Residence, Painting and Drawing, Studio Arts at Concordia University, M