Hilo Chen (born October 15, 1942 in Yilan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born American

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. He is best known for his photorealistic paintings of the

female figure Female body shape or female figure is the cumulative product of a woman's skeletal structure and the quantity and distribution of muscle and fat on the body. There is a wide range of normality of female body shapes. Female figures are typical ...

. He lives and works in New York. His work is in major museum collections throughout the world including the

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

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Hilo Chen's Timeline
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Hilo 1942 births Living people American artists of Chinese descent 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters Painters from New York City Taiwanese emigrants to the United States Taiwanese painters People from Yilan County, Taiwan 20th-century American male artists

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