生於台灣雲林，1966國立台灣師範大學藝術系畢業，考取1971年度日本政府獎學金公費留學考試赴日深造，1974日本國立東京教育大學研究所專攻工業設計，藝術學碩士畢。美國加州奧克蘭LANEY COLLEGE 塑膠加工技術研究一年。曾專任教職於大同工學院工設系三年及台北科技大學工設系二十八年，兼科、系主任八年。並深諳廣告設計及室內設計實務。2006年移居加拿大溫哥華後，從事繪畫藝術創作、繪畫教學工作及藝術專欄。自2013年迄今，擔任加西台灣藝術家協會會長。畫風遊走於知性與感性的協調中，構思透過知性的分析及色彩機能的應用，而後隨感覺揮毫，務必達到知性的語言與感性的語言融會貫通的效果，發揮到求真、至善、盡美的境地。畫面極具構築性且色彩活潑。
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Taiwanese-Canadian artist Wu-Tzanq Liaw holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan, and a Master of Arts degree in Industrial Design at the Tokyo University of Education in Japan. Mr. Liaw was a full time faculty at the Tatung University, and the National Taiwan University of Technology teaching at the department of Industrial Design. Along side teaching at the university, Mr. Liaw is also an experienced interior designer, and Artist. Since moving to Vancouver, British Columbia Canada in 2006, Mr. Liaw has regularly given solo and joint gallery shows. Mr. Liaw’s style has the balance of intelligence and sensibility, construct pictures with intelligent analysis, and applies the functionality of colour; striving to combine the language of the intelligence (the function of expressing) with the language of sensibility (the function of arousing sentiments) to reach the ultimate realm of “ truth”, “virtue” and” beauty”.