Liang Yifen

Liang Yifen, also romanized Liang Yi-Fen and written in Chinese as 梁奕焚, was born in 1937 in Changhua, Taiwan. Public sources give only the birth year, with no documented day or month. He graduated from the Art Department of National Taiwan Normal University and, from 1958 to 1963, studied contemporary art under Lee Chun-Shan, known in Taiwan as Li Zhong-sheng, a teacher central to the postwar generation that introduced abstraction and modernist ideas into the island's art schools.

In 1982 he founded the Modern Eye Group, an artists' collective, and in 1985 he became director of the Li Chun-shan Foundation, the organization established in his teacher's name. In 1987 he set up a studio in SoHo, New York. Ravenel's auction cataloguing, the fullest public account of his career located for this profile, describes his subsequent work as shaped by the exchange between Taiwanese and American, Eastern and Western, contexts.

No source consulted reports a date of death, and auction house and art-platform listings describe him in the present tense, consistent with him being alive as of this writing. His name should not be confused with several unrelated figures who share parts of the name, including the actor Li Yifeng, the Venice Biennale 2026 Taiwan Pavilion artist Li Yi-Fan, or the separate painters Liang Hao, Liang Ying, and Liang Yuanwei.

No signed critical essays or named-critic reviews in major art press could be located for Liang Yifen as of this writing. The most complete public account of his career is auction house cataloguing, principally from Ravenel, which situates him within the circle of artists who studied under Lee Chun-Shan and frames his New York studio period as a deliberate encounter between Taiwanese and Western modernist idioms. Absent independent critical literature, this framing should be read as promotional biography rather than scholarly assessment.

Liang Yifen's documented secondary market is thin and, so far as located for this profile, runs through Ravenel in Taipei rather than international houses. His highest confirmed auction result is an untitled oil on canvas dated 2008, which sold for TWD 228,000 (about USD 6,977, HKD 54,028) at Ravenel's Autumn 2015 auction in Taipei. A second Ravenel sale, also an untitled oil on canvas dated 2008, sold for TWD 144,000 (about USD 4,668) at the house's Spring 2015 auction. No sale exceeding the Autumn 2015 result could be confirmed as of 2026-07-18, and no records at Christie's, Sotheby's, or Phillips were located.

Public information on Liang Yifen is limited. No catalogue raisonne, certificate-of-authenticity program, current gallery representation, or museum collection holding could be confirmed as of 2026-07-18, and his exhibition history beyond auction cataloguing could not be verified. His auction record is built from a small number of Taipei sales rather than a deep or international trading history, so any comparison should treat each result as an individual data point rather than part of an established price trend. Collectors should also take care with identity: several artists with similar or overlapping names are active in the current market and press, and provenance research should confirm the Chinese-character signature 梁奕焚 against any work under consideration.