# Ju Ming artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ju-ming/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:07:38.569Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Taiwanese
- Common media: Wood, Bronze, Styrofoam, Ceramics, Stainless steel

## Portrait

![Ju Ming](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Ju_Ming_20171025.jpg)
​中華民國總統府 · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ju_Ming_20171025.jpg

## About Ju Ming

Ju Ming (1938–2023) was a Taiwanese sculptor whose identity is also recorded under authority forms such as Zhu Ming, Ming Zhu, Chu Ming, and the Chinese name 朱銘. He trained as a woodcarver, developing a direct understanding of carving before extending his practice into bronze, ceramics, Styrofoam, and stainless steel. Public biographical material associates his rise to recognition with Taiwan in the 1970s and New York City in 1983. Museum-style authority records consistently classify him as a Taiwanese sculptor, although the collected sources do not assign him to a specific art movement. Collectors may therefore encounter his name attached to sculpture in materially diverse forms, as well as under variant romanizations in catalogues and archival records. Matching the artist across those name forms is especially important when researching provenance, exhibition references, bibliographic records, and auction comparables.

## Common works and media

The available sources identify sculpture as Ju Ming's principal work type. Documented materials include carved wood, bronze, ceramics, Styrofoam, and stainless steel. The source pack does not provide enough institution-grade evidence to define recurring subjects, named series, edition structures, or typical dimensions, so individual works should be catalogued from their physical characteristics and supporting documentation rather than assigned to a series by appearance alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input identifies 279 auction records associated with Ju Ming, indicating a meaningful body of public-market material for comparison. The clearest supported distinctions are the type of sculpture and its material, since available biographical evidence identifies work in wood, bronze, ceramics, Styrofoam, and stainless steel. A responsible appraisal should compare the specific object with verified, sufficiently similar sale records rather than infer a price trend from record count alone. The supplied pack does not document lot-level condition, provenance, edition or cast practices, dimensions, signatures, foundries, sale dates, or realized prices; those details require object-level examination and fuller auction evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714363
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500079137
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/72336099/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju_Ming
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ju-ming/