虞曾富美

MARLENE TSENG YU

台灣省高雄縣美濃鎮人，1937年出生於台灣花蓮，1960年畢業於國立台灣師範大學，獲藝術學士學位，1963年留學美國。1967年畢業於科羅拉多大學，獲藝術碩士學位。1967-1968年間，任教於科羅拉多丹佛大學。自1969年起，在紐約市蘇豪區設立個人畫室，從事專業繪畫達四十年之久，又於2008年初，在皇后區長島市設立一万五千平方英尺的新畫室。在進行藝術創作的同時，本人自1994年開始擔任科羅拉多大學藝術顧問，1996年擔任「自然的氣勢」新藝術運動的展覽策劃，2001年創立熱帶雨林藝術基金會至今。

到2010年3月虞曾富美在美國、歐洲、亞洲等地已辦過62次個展，她的畫已有9種語文及超過170以上的藝術雜誌、報紙、電視、電台廣播等報道及評論。
她得過不少藝術上的成就獎，2005年她獲得第一屆「視覺藝術」MUSE「繆斯」獎中的超大型畫大獎（等同於電影奧斯卡獎）。1993年她得到紐約市文化主席安特路史坦授予文化先驅的最高榮譽獎。
她的畫超過1000幅以上已包括在許多公立機構及私人的收藏中。

Marlene Tseng Yu was born in Taiwan in 1937 and came to the U.S. in 1963. From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City for 38 years, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master in Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967. She taught art at Denver University in Colorado in 1967 to 1968. Since 1994, she has been on the Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1995, she has curated exhibitions for the new art movement, “Forces of Nature.” Marlene is Founder and Curator of the Rain Forest Art Foundation from 2001 to present. In 2014, Marlene established her own museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Marlene Yu Museum.

As of June 13, 2015, Marlene Tseng Yu has had 79 solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and the Far East.

Marlene’s art has been reviewed in 9 languages in more than 200 publications, by numerous art magazines, newspapers, TV, and radio shows, such as ARTFORUM, Art in America, Art News, World Journal, and Barbara Walters’ Today Show.

Marlene’s has received several awards for achievement in the arts. In 2005, she received the first “Muse” Fine Arts Award in the Muralist Paintings category at the inaugural ARTV Awards in Las Vegas.

Marlene’s paintings are included in over 1000 public and private collections. Marlene is able to do commission work according to requirements of large-scale architectural projects.