Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1982, Kuo Chih-Hung graduated from the National Taipei University of the Arts and the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Kuo has exhibited works in major international institutions, including Het Noordbrabants Museum, Netherlands (2018), Art 16 London, UK (2016), and Mancy's Tokyo Art Nights, Tokyo (2012), and in the Sigg Collection, Switzerland (2016), HSBC Collection, Taiwan (2015), private collections of Deutsche Bank in Germany, as well as the global collection of Yuanta Bank. Kuo spent eight years studying in Germany, where his overseas experiences led his artistic focus from figures to mountain landscapes. Blending Eastern and Western influences, his oil paintings transform mountains into poetic verses, each conveying a sense of eternity and continuity. Using techniques portraying abstract yet realistic ridges, valleys, drifting clouds, snow, ponds, reflections, and leaves. Through spiritually translated landscapes, he seeks to transcend the presence and visuality of landscape sketching, exploring the essence of painting.