Ju Ming (Chinese: 朱銘; pinyin: Zhū Míng; 20 January 1938 – 22 April 2023) was a Taiwanese sculptor who attained fame in his native country in the 1970s, and then in New York City in 1983.

He developed his skill and applied it to a range of media, including bronze, styrofoam, ceramics, and stainless steel.

In 1959, he moved back to Tunghsiao and opened his own studio with apprentices, creating a successful crafts business that left him dissatisfied.

Yang agreed, impressed by "Ju's flowing lines through the natural grain of the wood, the form executed with such an assured gentleness and humility."

As the youngest in his family, his childhood nickname is Jiu Er (九二), which means ninety-two in English, to dedicate his parents' added up ages as 92 when he was born.

He recalled that Lee Chin-chuan's saying, "If a sculptor does not know how to paint, it is like an architect who can build houses but does not know how to do blueprint design drawings."

He believed if a sculptor wants to carve well, he or she has to know and do many sketches, and most importantly not just copying other people's style; otherwise, the person is just an artisan, not an artist.

[6][7][8] Ju Ming became well known in the West during the late 1990s and early 2000s with pieces visible in England, Paris, and Luxembourg.

Sculpted with Ju Ming's signature style, blocky and minimalist, the figures are reduced to the basic forms intentionally to embrace the inner spiritual qualities within the human bodies.

The sculpture consists of steel cages and inside is two life-size figures carved in Styrofoam facing each other.

The title of the series Living World suggests that the works are based on the artist's observation and reflection on people's contemporary life.

[13] Its minimalist quality evokes the fundamental part of human quality- good and evil- with its connotation of a self-contained realm.

In Ju Ming's work, the White symbolizes the goodness as opposed to the Black associates with viciousness.

Ju Ming used the literal and external form of a cage to represent the inner spiritual dimension of the idea of restraint of men.

These prisons could be the norms of culture, the laws of institution, the confined architectural spaces of urban city, the curriculums of education, as well as the deep, rooted system thinking of humanity as whole.

Dunkerque Modern Arts Association Chairman G. Delaine describes the work "Living World Series—Parachute": "The strength of these sculptures does not lie merely in the dimensions of their figures; it is in the life force set free by them.

Since the Taichi Series is well known and has been lavishly praised internationally, it gives an excellent introduction to Ju Ming's works for the majority of Chinese spectators who have not seen his previous development.