Dr. T. F. Chen is a painter, art historian, writer, philosopher, and founder of the T. F. Chen Cultural Center in NYC -- a non-profit organization focusing on international cultural exchange and a Global New Renaissance. Chen was given the Global Tolerance Award (2001, U. N.) and was chosen to be a "Cultural Ambassador for Tolerance and Peace" by the Friends of the United Nations. Dr. Chen's career in the arts covers more than half a century. He was born in Taiwan and attended school in France, becoming the first Asian scholar to earn a Ph. D in modern art history from the La Sorbonne School. It was there where he came up with the "Five - Dimensional World Culture" in theory (1969) and initiated "Neo-Iconography" in painting. Chen has created over 1,000 paintings using his signature Neo-Iconography style and has published over a dozen books in English, Chinese and French that focus on his art and his theories of a New Renaissance. Listed as "one of the twenty most influential artists in the world today (Dr. Thomas McEvilley, art critic)," Chen has put on more than 100 one-man exhibitions worldwide. Chen's works are featured in over two-hundred textbooks (including Arts & Ideas), countless articles, newspapers, art magazines, etc.; and are collected privately and publicly by museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, Paris; the Smithsonian Institute; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; etc.